This May Be The Dawning

Part 19 of The Resort (A Tale of Inevitability)

We come to here;
We come from near and far,
We say –
“You are the people who would take our land.”
You say –
“This is our World now you must bow to it.”
We say –
“You take our History and this will end.”

This is –
The coming of a tide that you can’t fight.
We are –
The greater good and God is on our side.
You will –
Bow beneath the sword in which you killed us all.
The Night –
It’s coming so prepare yourself to fall.

They stand upon the blood of many lives today,
But stand no more for we shall live our lives our way.
The walls are falling down upon their feet my friend,
This is the dawning of Corruptions coming end.
For though we die our voices shall forever speak,
For we’re the saviours who’ll protect the torn and weak.

We cry – This may be the dawning, this may be the coming.
We shout – This may be the falling, this may be the rising.
We fight – This is the rebellion, this is what revenge means.
We rise – This is Us upstanding -
Something to believe in.

Throughout the minutes, days and lives that we have lost,
Throughout the hardship, blood and tears of what it cost.
You’ve seen a shadow standing in an alleyway,
You prayed you missed but you knew it’s on its way.
These Demon Days and days that Demons walked the land,
The day our Captain’s head was shoved beneath the sand.
The walls you built, the walls that we are knocking down.
A thousand feet are marching can’t you hear the sound?

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You stood upon the land and said the joys you bring,
Would change our lives and lift our spirits up to him,
But all we’ve left are bones & carcasses of death,
So now we write the scribes so no one will forget.
I am the servant, slave; I built the homes you own,
I am the butcher boy, the man who toiled your land,
I am the Picker of the fruits you bear upon.
I’m now the curse that you will wish was never born.

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We are the natives; we’re the one’s who died in vain,
While you just sat there reaping tears & blood & wine.
We are the ghosts, and we’ll bring down your failed regime,
Your lives will never feel quite what you thought they’d seem.
So those with kind of heart, the Just can step aside,
We’ll bear you mercy Friends, for this one’s not your fight,
But to the greed, the green, who try and flee this place,
It’s time to see the fear upon your sorry face.

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We’ll let this land burn down and let it die today,
We will let the demons fall and let them fade away.
For we’re the faceless ones that you will never see,
We’re the dead, enslaved and finally we’re free.
We’ll build this land again, we’ll start right from afresh,
You tore our souls out but we’re cleaning up your mess,
So stand the Natives, raise your arms up and rebel.
To taste what Heaven is you first must taste the Hell.

We cry – This may be the dawning, this may be the coming.
We shout – This may be the falling, this may be the rising.
We fight – This is the rebellion, this is what revenge means.
We rise – This is Us upstanding -
Something to believe in.

Written By Shane Ferguson
On The 12th March 2010