Fragile little thing
Go lightly on the wing
Don't be put off your game
If troubled wind should blow you off your way

Natural love and trust
Have downed their tools and struck
A nations heart, it rusts, it's no surprise, it seems so appropriate today

Black tears on a red rock
Fall right through and they dry up
How could it fail to grab your attention?
Black tears on a red rock

These trees bear a strange fruit
Harvestin' lies and poisoned blosoms of the truth
There's blood on our hands, there's blood on our boots
And black tears on a red rock

Island watch house bed
A black man's lyin' dead
Island watch house bed
A black man's lyin' dead