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