NoMeansNo - Youth lyrics

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Youth, I see

In your heart the red blood flows

Down like a river to the sea it goes

Youth, I see

Through all the trouble, the work and pain

You laugh like a child in a warm spring rain

Youth, I See

From the heavens the moon looks down

And the lapping of the tide is the only sound

The jungle lurks where the firelight fades

The stars are swimming in a moonlit bay

Women cry in their native tongue

Singing of the days when they were young

Hear the black eyed women pray

For all their lovers who have sailed away

On the altar the incense burns

For all the men who will never return

Youth, I see

Muscles ripple across your back

As you grab the rope and hold it fast

Youth, I see

Laughing faces at the end of the day

Hands that clap as the music plays

Youth, I See

See the temple on the hill above

A black bird circling a nesting dove

See the monks in their crimson robes

Walking single file down a dusty road

In the market the hawkers sing

Of aromatic spice and copper rings

Dice are thrown and rattling fall

At the feet of the soldiers on er) ancient wall

And the bones of those who climbed and died

Lie gleaming in the sand on the other side

See all of them dream

Youth, I see

A clear horizon the colour of lead

The sea is green like a blanket spread

Over thee

On the sheltering shore the breezes sing

But here the wind like a big bell rings

Over thee

A white-haired King with a withered hand

Bowed to the youth from a foreign land

Behind the curtains a young girl sighed

Basking in the light of his deep, blue eyes

The King decreed that the youth should know

Alt the secrets of his treasure trove

But never again would he roam free

From that kingdom he would never leave

The young man looked, the young man learned

And never to his home did he return

See all of them dream