War's Tenement lyrics

In peace sons bury fathers

In war fathers bury sons

The ground of barren savagery

Made fertile by blood and body

Reclaiming the debt of living

The earth reclaims their arms

Hewn from her primitive womb

The bones interred return again

All taken to make them breathe

Called back home by their mother

The affairs of men are forgotten

And malice gives way to peace

Tranquility remains if but briefly

Whilst slumbering, war's tenement