Never Tell Another Lie

Never tell another lie

They packed us in like animals, nails in a tin
9 months on the waves, but we never let them win
No we never gave in

I was just a foolish kid, I thought I couldn’t care less
The lashes that they thrashed me with helped me to confess
Now I’ve given right in

Got nowhere to run to ‘less you want to die alone
They’ve shipped you to this hell-hole and you’re never going home
The crops won’t grow and the store is running dry
There’s no one left alive here who doesn’t want to die
Never tell another lie
Never tell another lie
If you could only promise me that I wouldn’t have to die
Alone

We thought we were desperate in the motherland
Now we’re breaking rocks (and backs) making roads by hand
It’s a hundred in the shade

There’s weevils in the flour and maggots in the meat
It’s Russian roulette if you try to eat
But you’ve got to try to eat

They tell us ev’ry day is one day closer to supplies
But I guess when it goes missing, it won’t be no surprise
Those vicious bastards with the rum

If you could promise me that I wouldn’t have to die
Alone