Almost Human ft. Nick Spano Lyrics

We have come across an ocean

We have come through hopeless streets

Through a land of sleep and dreaming

To reveal our history

From the years of cold and famine

From sickness, fear and dark

Under yoke and heel of empire

Hard years have left their mark

Light another candle for

The souls who cleared the way

Say another prayer for

The hands that gave you this day

From the troubles in the northland

Trading ploughs for pikes and guns

Jesus wept for all the bloodshed

And into his arms we've run

Once, we reached for the heavens

Once, we reached up from the depths

You leaned on my crooked shoulder

We climbed the numberless steps

We dreamed of a new life

Dreamed, dreamed for the unborn

Gave, gave up our desires

For a future less forlorn

To a land of milk and honey

Where the streets are paved with gold

No one ever need go hungry

Or die alone in the cold

But the dream proved hard and ruthless

Digging trenches turned to graves

Welding beams that blocked the sun's own

Run down by the track we laid

World War 1 and influenza

Thinned us pilgrims to the bone

Our ship limped onward toward the Great Lady

Whose light has always shone

None of us do need apply here

None of us withhold our sons

Send them all to serve when drafted

None need return from the front

Queue up on soup and bread lines

Stuff old newsprint in your sleeves

Stay alive until the springtime

For the child try not to grieve

What's become of all our children

Their sons and daughters too

Do you take the time to remember

To our sacrifice be true