THE REINCARNATION OF BENJAMIN BREEG

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THE REINCARNATION OF BENJAMIN BREEG

(Murray/Harris)

 

Let me tell you about my life

Let me tell you about my dreams

Let me tell you about the things that happen

Always real to me

 

Let me tell you of my hope

Of my need to reach the sky

Let me take you on an awkward journey

Let me tell you why

Let me tell you why

 

Why should these curses be laid upon me

I won't be forgiven 'till I can break free

What did I do to deserve all this guilt

Pay for my sins with the sale of my soul

Demons are trapped all inside of my head

My hopes are gone reach for heaven from hell

 

My sins are many my guilt is too heavy

The pressure of knowing of hiding what I know

I'm able to see things

Things I don't want to see

The lives of a thousand souls

Weigh heavy down on me

 

I know they're crying for help reaching out

The burden of them will take me down as well

The sin of a thousand souls not died in vain

Reincarnate still in me live again

 

Someone to save me

Something to save me from myself

To bring salvation

To exorcise this hell

 

Someone to save me

Something to save me from myself

To bring salvation

To exorcise this hell

 

Someone to save me

Something to save me from myself

A destination

Away from this nightmare

 

Someone to save me

Something to save me from myself

To bring salvation

To exorcise this hell

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THE TROOPER

(Harris)

 

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too

You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through

So when you're waiting for the next attack

You' d better stand there's no turning back

 

The Bugle sounds and the charge begins

But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death
 
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
 
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day
 
We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below
 
And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan

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RUN TO THE HILLS

(Harris)

 

White man came across the sea, brought us pain and misery

Killed our tribes killed our creed, took our game for his own need

 

We fought him hard we fought him well, out on the plains we gave him hell

But many came too much for Cree, oh will we ever be set free?

 
Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes, galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes, fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back, women and children and cowards attack
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
 
Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, enslaving the young and destroying the old
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
 
Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

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