Another Imperial Day (live)

You could be there
 on a dark october night
 waiting for the moment to be
 swimming 'cross the freezing river
 holding a plastic bag of belongings just out of the water
 climbing up the banks on the other side
 hiding in the trees so cold
 that you hardly show as a target
 on the heat seeking gear of the border patrol
 but you made it, you're another one over
 sleeping on a bench in a railway station
 in the heart of Europe
 haven't eaten anything for two days straight
 but where there is a will there's allways gonna be a way
 And every door is guarded
 and every guard costs money
 so the women are bought and kept and raped and sold as slaves
 because the family borrowed from the man
 and the man has allways got to be repaid
 for the deals of the borders and the fake IDs
 and the stolen passports all locked away
 While the women are working and gagging down on their knees
 and somewhere in the back of terminal 3
 in the clogged-up corridors of the imigration authorities
 whole families with the wrong bits of paper
 are waiting to be sent back to where they came from
 escorted by officials out across the tarmac
 with their wrist bound tight with cable ties behind their backs
 It's dawn and there's fog in Rotterdam harbour
 and the guard's on his break and the dogs are chained by the wire
 three figures come out from behind the cranes
 make across the train tracks
 climb aboard a Panamanian freighter headed for the isle of grain
 find a place to hide in a stack of containers
 another payload of world trade because
 goods are free to move but not people
 oil is free to move but not people
 jobs are free to move but not people
 money is free to move but not people
 And today they got a man hauled off a truck in the port of calais
 we watch him in silence as they lead him away
 clutching his battered suitcase
 sitting in the back of the white port authority van
 well, where do any of us come from, it's pretty hard to say
 while high in the sky above us tonight
 the bombers are heading the other way, south and east
 into the blood red crimson sunrise of another imperial day