Here on the moor
Life used to be timeless
Man beast and bird
Were all drowning in silence
The hills are alive
With the echoes of war
Tell me where is the country
That I used to know?
Now the fruit in the garden
Will no longer grow
And the power of a union
Feels like a long time ago
Oh this is one for our children
Maybe one day they'll teach us to learn
And oh the fires of England
Are starting to burn
Power corrupts
Corruption it kills
The warnings were there
When they tore down the mills
And they put out the lights
Under our green rolling hills
Still we crusade
For the sake of a cross
We kill in the name
Of the prophet and loss
And on the horizon lies England
A paradise lost
Oh this is one for our children
Maybe one day they'll teach us to learn
And oh the fires of England
Are starting to burn
