their shadows burnt into the walls so many lives reduced to ashes so many homes razed to the ground a shine like from a thousands suns betrayed by their proud leaders and executed by atrocious enemies so many homes, so many lives a silent sense of guilt should rise a thousand books all full with with vindications simple explanations and coloured declarations where silent sense of guilt should rise but a victor's story cannot lie one modest truth they teach their children again, a victor's story, it cannot lie see these branded generations hear, their bells are tolling hear, hear them calling
their shadows burnt into the walls so many lives reduced to ashes so many homes razed to the ground a shine like from a thousands suns betrayed by their proud leaders and executed by atrocious enemies so many homes, so many lives a silent sense of guilt should rise a thousand books all full with with vindications simple explanations and coloured declarations where silent sense of guilt should rise but a victor's story cannot lie one modest truth they teach their children again, a victor's story, it cannot lie see these branded generations hear, their bells are tolling hear, hear them calling
