Bring the women And children before me Let us make rivers of their blood Bleed for me... I wish it so And streams shall meet such rivers And seaward they shall flow See the shoreline Scattered with their precious skulls See the tide come in As blood to meet their bone A grotesque promise Beneath a crimson sky... For it is A season's birth We'll drown the newborn Like unwanted dogs And condemn them to their desperate gods We'll take a needle To the arm of the world For it is our season We'll burn the temples Of the righteous And rend them as ashes To the four winds As ashes... to the four winds The winds of a new season Bring the women And children before me Let us make rivers of their blood Bleed for me... I wish it so And streams shall meet such rivers And seaward they shall flow