Nomads Revolt - Mischief Brew

We go down to throw rocks at the river

Curses at the parade

Wedge a stone in the gears of the clockworks

Try to keep us from acting our age

Swore we’d carry on like this forever

'til the free spirits fled

Now can you believe who’s a mother

And that so-and-so's cut of their dreads?

Kill off Columbus and turn the world around

After all the nomads are settling down

Used to give most of the bread to a landlord

Leave the crust for the squats

Now the death wages we pay the bankers

Seem to kill all the flies in one swat

Hear the wedding band strike up a number

Dear, they’re playing our song

Hold your breath 'cause we’re gonna go under

And the little ones singing along

Kill off Columbus and turn the world around

After all the nomads are settling down

Kill off Columbus and turn the world around

After all the nomads are settling down

After all the nomads are settling down

No way, not since so-and-so said he’d never change

That he’d never grow

He’d stay always on a roll

From beside the trains

Past the mossy stones

Now there’s more hope than ever and it’s all falling down

And the rebels are running for mayor in your hometown

As the nomads are dropping their anchors

Falling into the sea

Now I’ve stopped throwing rocks at the river

And you’ll find me a-swimming upstream

There is power in unions of ramblers

Who’ve got nothing to own

But there’s more in one fist-swinging mother

Swearing «My children shall never be sold»

Kill off Columbus and turn the world around

After all the nomads are settling down

Kill off Columbus and turn the world around

After all the nomads are settling down

After all the nomads are settling down

Out of the garden

We multiply

Telling our stories

May all the old ways die!