Suffering Union lyrics

The colourful uniforms

Red banners fluttering

Military marches blaring

Troops amassed display

Formations in waves pass

Symbols of might and power

Intimidation made grand

For those near and afar

Cold war, foreign foes

Obscuring those near

No one has a choice yet

Each with a painted face

Like the clowns disguising

The true sadness beneath

Misery's dear companion

The Soviet Union was not

There was no council fair

For those of freewill unkept

But the council of the gulag

Forced forgotten by history

A miserable union perhaps

When everything is short

With long lines, little to get

People here might disappear

And yet there is still misery

The masses learn to distrust

Their fixed fear used to control

Leaders use the worst in men

To achieve their ambitions

The selfish never see light

The young see only glory

Pomp and circumstance so

Blind and misguided alike

Those who lived as sheep do

Awaiting a tyrant's slaughter

Where are the intelligencia

They once graced Russia so

With great ideals, expectations

That froze to death in Siberia

Those frontiers of forced labour

The hope is in the future

Where freedom is learned

So men would live in peace

A government taught then

Hatred is an evil precipice

Those lessons once taught

They remain a legacy still

That must be outgrown yet

Self survival overwhelming

That forsakes true fellowship