We Came Through

　　We Came Through - Scott Walker

　　We came through

　　We came riding through like warriors from afar

　　Our black horses danced upon

　　The graves of yesterday's desires

　　Haunted by our visions framed in fire

　　I greet you for you still believe

　　In what's behind a door

　　You've seen the children freeze upon their knees

　　And praying to the wind

　　Descend their grey madonnas back again

　　Fire the guns and salute the men

　　Who died for freedom's sake

　　And we'll weep tonight but we won't lie awake

　　Gazing up at statues dressed in stars

　　We won't dream for they don't come true for us

　　Not anymore

　　They've run afar to hide in caves

　　With haggard burning eyes

　　Their icy voices tear our hearts like knives

　　We came through

　　Like the Gothic monsters perched on Notre Dame

　　We observe the naked souls of gutters pouring forth mankind

　　Smothered in an avalanche of time

　　And we're giants as we watch our kings

　　And countries raise their shields

　　And Guevara dies encased in their ideals

　　And as Luther King's predictions fade from view

　　We came through