Dark Translations

This is concrete lyrics,

beautiful and cruel

They cut the plaster where graffiti rules Slowly sets the sun,

people run to hide inside Darkness wraps the concrete,

turning friends to shadows in the night Do not try to trust

someone who shows you nothing real Only when the sun is down

you find out what they feel Now try to keep your soul

safe until the morning light You better go and play your games

far away from sight This is not your party,

man, this is not your crew They will eat you up in

one single bite, it's true You were crazy back then when you

chose to come around Everything in spiderwebs,

smoke upon the ground Kids are in the loop too,

on the same machine At the bottom everyone is working for the

scheme Doing hard labor with their bare hands in the cold Risks

of life are only in the commercials we are told We fight

in the underground like we're in a cage Hard to find yourself

when you're living on the edge

Yeah, above us the sun still will rise (ooh) And I keep

writing truth, hiding nothing from their eyes (yeah) Hard truth here,

my friend, but don't you turn away Keep your head up high

while there's still another day

Before they throw you in the bus and beat you black and

blue Before the rockets fly,

I'll spit the rhythm true About the way things are,

the way it used to be About a brother lost in war,

a painful memory About a mother crying hard,

weeping for her son She forgot to eat,

forgot to sleep, what has been done Instead of coming home,

they brought him in a box While politicians' kids on Bali warm

their socks Our boys are in the trenches,

loading up the steel While people in exile slave away to make

a deal They stole from us,

they steal from us,

and they will steal again These dirty souls,

this emptiness, it brings us only pain Global sickness strikes the land,

breaking what was good Rockets flying in the sky,

children dying in the neighborhood

Yeah, above us the sun still will rise (ooh) And I keep

writing truth, hiding nothing from their eyes (yeah) Hard truth here,

my friend, but don't you turn away Keep your head up high

while there's still another day