Emerson lake and palmer the battlefield lyrics

Clear the battlefield and let me see 

All the profit from our victory. 

You talk of freedom, starving children fall. 

Are you deaf when you hear the season's call? 



Were you there to watch the earth be scorched? 

Did you stand beside the spectral torch? 

Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face, 

Scattered on the ashes of disgrace. 



Every blade is sharp; the arrows fly 

We're the victims of your armies' lie, 

Where the blades of grass and arrows reign 

Then there will be very little sorrow, 

Very little pain. 



Confusion...will be my epitaph 

As I cross a cracked and broken path 

If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh