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Scorched Earth
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Scorched Earth was released on October 1, 1975 by EMI Catalogue as a part of the album Godbluff
October 1, 1975
LabelEMI Catalogue
LanguageEnglish
BPM127
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast
He looks into the future and remembers what is past
Wonders what he's doing on this battlefield
Shrugs to his shadow, impatient, too proud yet to kneel
In his wake he leaves Scorched Earth, and work in vain
Smoke drifts up behind him, he is free again
Free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe
Leaving nothing fit for pillage, hardly leaving home
It's far too late to turn
Unless it's to stone
Charging madly forward, tracks across the snow
Wind screams "madness!" to him, ever on he goes
Leaving spoor to mark his passage, trace his weary climb
Cross the moor and make the headland; stumbling, wayward, blind
In the end his footprints extend
As one single line
This latest exponent of heresy is goaded into an attack
Persuaded to charge at his enemy; too late, he knows it is
Too late now to turn back, too soon by far to falter
The past sits uneasily at his rear
He's walking right into the trap (Trap...)
Surrounded, but striving through will and fear (Fear...)
Ahead of him he knows there waits an ambuscade
But the dice slip through his fingers, and he's living from day to day
Carrying his world around upon his back
Leaving nothing behind but the tell-tale of his track!
He will not be hostage, he will not be a slave
No snare of past can trap him, though the future may!
Still he runs and burns behind him, in advanced retreat
Still his life remains unfettered, he denies defeat
It's far too late to turn
Unless it's to stone
Leave the past to burn
At least that's been his own
Scorched Earth, that's all that's left when he's done
Holding nothing but beholden to no one
Claiming nothing, out of no false pride
He survives!
Snow tracks, that's all that's left to be seen
Of a man who entered the course of a dream
Claiming nothing but the life he's known
Oh, this, at least, has been his own!
Written by: David Jackson, Peter Hammill
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