Jonestown by The Mercury Arc Lyrics

We've been betrayed! We've been so betrayed!
Touched their souls like a mind-reader, the Baptist preacher, father, leader
A vision bleak shows in his eye: cyanide and lullaby
Innocence strewn like confetti:
Brother, sister, mother, daddy
Tongue and lips stained blueishly
Their eyes shut so euphorically
Fooled and trapped by a captor of men
A sect that's trained to die for him
Too blind with trust in all his lies, suicide for paradise
Morning sun, lined up bodies, face-down, bare of hopes and worries
A family picture, side by side
Nine hundred thirteen left tonight
Morning sun, warming cold meat, face down in the jungle heat
If they won't let us live in peace, let's die in peace and leave this place
Smell the almond-scented breath, rising jungle mist of death
They downed the poison, sugar sweet
'till silence filled the humid heat
Babies held like guns by mothers, motionless on one another
Hold them tight, and hold them still
Do my will!
Seduced by a killer
Trapped by a captor of men
A sect trained to die for him
Blind with trust in all his lies, suicide for paradise
Seduced by a killer
We've been betrayed! We've been so betrayed!
Morning sun, lined up bodies, face-down, bare of hopes and worries
A family picture, side by side
Nine hundred thirteen left tonight
Morning sun, warming cold meat, face down in the jungle heat
If they won't let us live in peace, let's die in peace and leave this place