No Pain

Across the town, on the other hill, your lights glow from a different world You always found, a place to hide, nails and cross to lay beside, with all the ghosts that we denied Now in rippled arcs, across the sky, great white birds of winter fly When the wheel turns, people change, scattered ashes to the wind, scattered ashes to the wind There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain, drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain, drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain Your parched face, your calloused hands, behind us lie the arrid lands To say too much, it was not our way, and in the end there wasn't much to say The scars are healed now anyway There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain, drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain, drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, there's no pain, there's no pain, no pain, no pain And Abraham rose and took his only son, Knife and tinder in his hand and set out Across the desert and up into the scrubland hills. He bound the boy Isaac to the stone Raised the blade and waited for the miracle, But the wind blows silent across the hills Silent, across the dead and empty hills, Dead, like the god that never came Like your face, the day that you turned away. There's no pain, There's no pain, There's no pain, Drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, There's no pain, There's no pain, Drying river in the blazing sun There's no pain, there's no pain, There's no pain, No pain, no pain