Bob Geldof - The Song Of The Emergent Nationalist lyrics

Over there across the river Comin' in over the sea Flyin' in the salt sky Washed up on the beach Over and across the sand dunes Up among the broken reeds Up there past the rushes In among the marshy reeds Way up in the branches Higher up than the trees If you listen hard you can the sounds Blowin' in on the breeze Sayin' "Come back, Baby come back "Come back, Baby come back." There's a place you can go when you're empty The older you are and you get If you concentrate you'll catch up But sometimes you have to forget And as the years make hearing hard There's a secret place that I know Take my hand across this blasted land We can listen to them sigh and moan Whisper, "Come back, baby, come back "Come back, baby, come back." Where is your culture? It's been stolen Where are your ideals? They've been stolen Where is your nation? It's been stolen Where is your language? Gone Where are your traditions? Robbed Where is your future? It's been stolen Who are you now? We don't know We're nothing now, we are gone But whispered secret voices Who we have already withdrawn We are shadows of what we were We're long, long shadows And in that shadows is a shape And in that shape is a name And where we hide it is dark But in the dark it is warm We are born in this dark And we're safe When it's time We'll come again When it's time We'll come back in When it's time We'll come again When it's time We'll come again Baby, come back Come back Baby, come back Gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone