Five Sisters

This is not the place for words of vengeance This is not the place for a battle cry This is no rally, this will be the funeral Of five sisters' lives We walk and we breathe but we are not animals But you treat us though we are I never fired a rocket sir But you may have pushed me too far And every day I watch them growing And in the night I watch them breathe But it only takes a second sir And five sisters gone Five sisters gone The propaganda of all the leaders Who make their speeches, heads held high I want them standing by this graveside Where five sisters lie And every day I watch them growing And in the night I watch them breathe But it only takes a second sir And five sisters gone Five sisters gone Take away a man's water And you bloat upon his land You build a mighty wall around him What's so hard to understand? You make his children walk in squalor With only night stars for a view And the rage inside that helplessness Someday comes back at you But this is not the place for words of vengeance This is not the place for the battle cry This is no rally, this will be the funeral Of five sisters' lives And every day I watch them growing And in the night I watch them breathe But it only takes a second sir And five sisters And every day I watch them growing And in the night I watch them breathe But it only takes a second sir And five sisters gone Five sisters gone One day I'll buy myself a rocket And I will aim it towards the sky And I will celebrate in the light of a thousand colours Some peace and justice in our time Some peace and justice in our time For five sisters It'll be too late for my five daughters