the grass was as green as it always was that sinister day the blackbird sang their songs as they always did that black letter day the day we passed the great gate for the very last time i did not look back i knew we d stay i knew they would not let us go leave the death strip i saw the gleam in their eyes of fear and enslavement the crushing weight beloved ground take me home alesia alisanos wake me when i m gone lanotouta eternity proclaim our barren sacrifice on that ground we cherished life and embraced death as the children s cries trailed off sob yielded deathly hush alesia alisanos wake me when i m gone lanotouta eternity proclaim our barren sacrifice the grass was as green as it always was that sinister day as we walked the alleys like thousand times before i knew we d stay alesia alisanos wake me when i m gone lanotouta eternity proclaim my barren sacrifice outside alesia we offered a living sacrifice outside the doors of alesia where our tears run dry