Through Their Eyes Lyrics

Out in the Syrian desert

You can see skeletons that remain

Without even looking they just appear

In numbers hard to ascertain

Skulls of women skulls of children

Are revealed as the sand blows away

And a story of suffering not widely known

Is revealed it can never be erased

Perpetrated by those in the state

The culture they take and desecrate

Incinerate the people the Armenians

Are the reason for their losses they will say

Decades ago massacres were inflicted

On these people see it through their eyes

Terror manifested in rivers of blood

From the men who were rounded up to die

And now many years have passed

You're allowed to exist even thrive

Many of your people even serve in war

That has started even on the front lines

But when defeat is tasted

The Ottomans turn with their eyes

Once again on your people they love to blame

Due to fear of fearing Russian ties

Centuries later they still deny

But the blood on their hands never lies

Centuries later they still deny

That expulsion wasn't really justified

But in the desert that is filled bones

What secrets from the dead are surmised

If you listen closely you can hear the cries

Of men women children forced to die

See it through their eyes

Through their eyes

Out in the Syrian desert

The last thing you see is the sun

Or the barrel of a gun or the hands of a soldier

On your neck forcing in you're undone

The soles of your feet are bleeding your parched

Your stomach is empty cry in pain

But any sound let out is in vain

The paramilitary laughs with disdain

Hatred instilled enforced by the state

Lead by the Paschas so fierce

Single out groups of minorities to die

As a threat to the state they will pierce

They resisted but they are attacked

Really you can call it defense

But it's seen by the Ottomans as firm proof

Of insurrection it's never making sense

They round up the men and slaughter them

In the streets consecrated with blood

Gashes are sliced so deep in their flesh

Limbs are severed or exposed to the bone

Looking on in horror are the women and children

Who are soon forced to march

Past the mounds of bodies of their men dying slow

In a river of blood hard to watch

Centuries later they still deny

But the blood on their hands never lies

Centuries later they still deny

That expulsion wasn't really justified

But in the desert that is filled bones

What secrets from the dead are surmised

If you listen closely you can hear the cries

Of men women children forced to die

See it through their eyes

Through their eyes

Through their eyes the suffering was real

It can't be justified by propaganda standing still

It can't be talked around or dismissed as a fluke

The lives that were silenced can be heard yes they knew

Through their eyes they were marched to their death

Millions of souls against their will put to rest

So against their will we hold the ones responsible

Accountable denial not accepted you'll confess

You'll confess

To genocide

You'll confess

See it through their eyes

You'll confess

To genocide

You'll confess

See it through their eyes

You'll confess

To genocide

You'll confess

See it through their eyes

You'll confess

To genocide

You'll confess

See it through their eyes

See it through their eyes