Future Shade - The Herd

Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring

You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring

You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden

When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started

You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)

Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)

The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)

Your work is not in vain

Now we just want you to fly

The feeling of freedom when you democratise

Join us up in the sky, boy, that means that you’re alive

Trust us on it, crack some eggs to make the omelette

Better that than bomb it, baby, this is springtime, look at what we got potted

Tree will bear what we wanted I hope, the plant that we install is my vote

If not then sniper and murder she wrote, got it

Locked in, your type of awe seems shocking

With a headshot on a head of state, your peace can devastate

Our peace can’t wait for a moment, thought we owned it

The truth hurt, ruffled the hem of a blue skirt

Then forgotten back to the well to drink the poison water

Freedom doesn’t begin in springtime like it ought to

Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring

You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring

You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden

When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started

You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)

Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)

The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)

Your work is not in vain

And God knows that we’ll be righteous

When were taming the tigris, do you get it?

We get it whether or not, we don’t care if we get invited

We’re dealing with tyrants, hamas surprises

Yes, they won, still we will not let them democratise it

And the uprisings and who to pick a side with

Do a deal or fight with, what we want is sidekicks and what we have is violence

You labelled freedom fighters insurgents in Guantanamo

When justice ain’t been just since geronimo

Cross-border raids to demonstrate the rule’s fluid

Which is pretty much the same way our supreme leaders do it

So tell me, what kind of enduring freedom is this?

That leaves a million bleeding or buried beneath the grit

Then there comes a day

When the ground work was laid

Our hearts and heads were strong

We couldn’t wait any longer

Then there comes a night

When the dark steals the light

The cycles will go on

You made us wait even longer

You who plants the seed (you made us wait even longer)

You made us wait even longer

The tree that brings the change (you made us wait even longer)

You made us wait even longer

The moon will only rise when the people so desire

Yet the sun will fall on an empire, defending her pride

Yo, we’re tired of the masks, people tired of the zig zags

And we’re sick of the myth of the good guy, who is that?

Your flag is up in flames, the claims of liberators are bitter statements

When on their say so, planes deliver their payload

And on the ground the people rage, they’re on the phone and tweeting change

The page they’re writing into history ain’t the same, they want to sign their

name there

For the masses gathered in the main square

Shouting down the despot, and crowding round the death squad

A day so many dreamed of, remember what the seed was

The struggle and the sacrifice to keep the hope alive

When they

Planted in the summer, blooming in the spring

You may not like the harvest or what the fruits bring

You don’t own this thing, you don’t own this garden

When you shake the tree down, you don’t know what you started

You who plants the seed ('cause you don’t know what you started)

Never to enjoy the shade (no, you don’t know what you started)

The tree that brings the change (no, you don’t know what you started)

Your work is not in vain

You who plants the seed

Never to enjoy the shade

The tree that brings the change

Your work is not in vain