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Patti Smith - Strange Messengers lyrics with translation (on click)

Strange Messengers - Patti Smith

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I looked upon the book of life

Tracing the lines of face after face

Looking down at their naked feet

Bound in chains bound in chains

Chains of leather chains of gold

We knew it was wrong but we looked

away

And paraded them down the colonial

streets

And that's how they became enslaved

They came across on the great ships

Mothers separated from their babes

Husbands stood on the auction block

Bound in chains bound in chains

Chains of leather chains of gold

Men knew it was wrong but they looked