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A Gathering of Crows

from A Time of Shadow by Dead Heroes Club

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Has anybody seen the Nazarene or the angels of the past?
We need them now to save us somehow, this light is fading fast.
Can anybody take the war we make or the fire in the sky?
Crush it all down into a hole in the ground…forget it for a while?
Is there a soldier’s heart in the holy man?

I guess I must’ve missed the holy twist that says “death to the other side!”
Who gave these words to Muhammad’s verse or to the one who came to die?
And who is it that insists “read into this…the path has been clearly laid”
To justify the wave that comes again in jihad or crusade?
Is there a killer’s heart in your holy man?

I looked in the eyes of one who died,
No flowers or crosses, his wounds could disguise.
Where is the faith that brings us peace?
Where are the arms of love to make the pain cease?
Goodbye father…your angels have flown…goodbye!

Hear the faith maker pitch his line,
Telling us how to live if we’re to reach the divine.
He’ll march us to the Promised Land.
With fire in our eyes and death on our hands…
Goodbye mercy…now we’re all alone…goodbye!

Has anybody seen the Nazarene…?

A hunter dressed in preacher’s clothes,
Offers a silent prayer for his gathering of crows.
He’ll march us to the Promised Land,
But we’ll find it’s a kingdom made for the souls of the damned.
Goodbye glory…your day is done…goodbye!

Behind sacred doors, waging holy war -
Here comes the firebrand with a trip switch in his hand.
Blood from books of peace, vengeance on the streets -
Is that what the good word says?
Hey - who’s listening anyway?

Lit by human light, angels fly by night
With twisted words of faith and infected shards of grace.
And in my own homeland, slaughter for the lamb,
If you’re from the other side
For God and country they’ll take your life.
Expect no mercy from the light…

I don’t need the words you bring to me.
I don’t need your homemade theology.
I don’t fear the tide you’ll turn on me,
I’m in the presence of the spirit, can’t you see?

And in a corner of the sky
An Angel waits and sings a silent lullaby
All her tears, they’re falling down on me
I’m in the presence of the spirit can’t you see?

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from A Time of Shadow, released November 17, 2009

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Dead Heroes Club are probably Ireland's only current Progressive Rock band Although as one rock critic points out "the blood of Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Tull, Pink Floyd and others floods their veins', Dead Heroes Club manage to achieve an original and inventive approach to their music. DHC offer modern melodic and passionate music & songs that deal with themes rooted in the modern world. ... more

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