Struggle with the current

Dragged down into the dark

No reward waiting

No salvation or ark

Unseen borders

To protect the nation state

Sink like stones to the bottom

Not once a white man's fate

One final escape

Deported into the deep

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Too many heroes for the hull to keep

Upon a heartless sea

Where dreams come to die

Upon a heartless sea

Our willing sacrifice

That's someone's sister

That's someone's son

I've got a sister

I'm someone's son

I want a better life

And I'm not the only one

As the waves come crashing

With the rejected and poor

Bodies upon bodies

They shall overcome no more

So hail to the capital

That will set us free

Free to drown and free to die

To slave eternally

Upon a heartless sea

Where dreams come to die

Upon a heartless sea

Our willing sacrifice

That's someone's sister

That's someone's son

I've got a sister

I'm someone's son

I want a better life

And I'm not the only one

After forcing them to want our lives

We rip the honour from their sacrifice

We close our coffers and we close our eyes

Dragged down by the weight of freedom

Dragged down by the loss of hope