The flat red earth Lyrics

The sun that scalds my freckled skin

Could never put life back within

My brain is bouncing in its skull

Free of the thoughts that made it dull

Now the trees feed on my body

Their roots pull me apart like bread

I do not care, not asleep there

Just dead, dead, dead

I listen to the falling rain

It's all I've got to keep me sane

It wets the ground to my surprise

It opens up these tired eyes

Like a seed you planted me

Here I lie inside your head

Even though we both know

I'm dead, dead, dead

All those people we once knew

Are queuing up to support you

They're offering a helping hand

But they do not understand

The prayers they said were to themselves

While beneath the earth so red

Yet I stay held by the clay

Still dead, dead, dead