Guns, death and noise
Sand, oil and blood
Frontiers drawn on paper

No consideration made for
The poor creature who is living
By the grace of God just giving

He's live on network news
Live on network news


Flags, princes, kings
Patriotic tools
As freedom lies in twisted heaps

Whose final breath his soul to keep
Whose greatest foe, the endless sleep
Whose dying wish to reach next week

A bloody star on the network news
A bloody star on the network news


Tanks, boats and planes
Fire, pain and lies
Environmental terrorists

Tease propaganda's paper fist
Whose trade is all the truth that fits
Who often lies but never sits

But on the fence it's the network news
Yes, on the fence it's network news


The lion and the serpent parade out in the sun
All order, flex and gesture
All hail - the techno infidel has come

With satellite bravado and infra-red texture

Beyond these days in time to come

Whose fate is it to measure
Upon these sands such damage done
To spoil God's finest treasure


Beyond these days [etc repeated]


Guns, death and noise
Sand, oil and blood
Guns, death and noise

Sand, oil and blood