If They Come in the Morning Lyrics by Band Of Hope
Rhythm & Reds
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[Verse 1] They call it the law, apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence It's the law that they made to keep you and me where they think we belong They live behind steel and bullet proof glass, machine guns and spies And tell us who suffer the tear gas and torture that we're in the wrong [Chorus] No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning [Verse 2] The trade union leaders, the writers, the rebels, the fighters and all And the strikers who fought with the cops at the factory gate The sons and the daughters of unnumbered heroes who paid with their lives And the poor folk whose class or creed or belief was their only mistake [Chorus] No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning [Verse 3] They took away Sacco, Vanzetti, Connolly and Pearce in their time They came for Newton and Seale and the Panthers and some of their friends In London, Chicago, Saigon, Santiago, Cape Town and Belfast And all the places that never made the headlines the list never ends [Chorus] No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning [Verse 4] The Boys in Blue are only a few of the everyday cops on their beat The CID, Branch men and their spies and informers, they do their job well Behind them the men who tap phones, take pictures and programme computers and file And the ones who give the orders which tell them when to come and take you to a cell [Chorus] No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning [Verse 5] So come all you people to give to your sisters and brothers the will to fight on They say you get used to a war but that doesn't mean the war isn't on The fish need the seas to survive just like your comrades do And the death squad can only get to them if first they can get through to you [Chorus] No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning No time for love if they come in the morning No time to show fear or for tears in the morning No times for goodbyes no time to ask why And the wail of the siren is the cry of the morning
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