Year 1815 then Metternicht and the tzar
formed a holy alliance
All aristocrafts of Europe should get together
and destroy the freedom that existed

And they murdered and they hung and they persecuted and surveiled and guarded
and it lasted for months and years
But history can not be turned back
and the tyrants reap what they sow

When time had expired the pact was broken
and the plans of the mighty were revealed
And the joint creaked and the thrones shaked
where necessity advanced

One spring in paris the poor seized power
and for three months they kept it
Then the hunt began and the bloody slaugther
when the oppressors took it back again

And they murdered and they hung and they persecuted and surveiled and guarded
and it lasted for months and years
But history can not be turned back
and the tyrants reap what they sow

When time had expired the russian tzar got shot
and his castle had been stormed and conquered
And the ruling classes succumbed to the masses
and reaped the wind that they sowed

Year 1918 the spartacists were shot
and all the reformists were watching
Then the nazis were invented by the capitalists
and then it was yet again time to sow

And they murdered and they hung and they persecuted and surveiled and guarded
and it lasted for months and years
But history can not be turned back
and the tyrants reap what they sow

When time had expired power was already crushed
and Hitlers war machine was jammed
Then the bankers started to regret their decision
for the reds were closing in on Berlin

27' in Shangai they shot the people that
got in the way of fair profit
With a couple of millions american cartridges
and with orders straight from Wall Street

And they murdered and they hung and they persecuted and surveiled and guarded
and it lasted for months and years
But history can not be turned back
and the tyrants reap what they sow

When time had expired, by last minute,
the comprador class boats were released from harbour
For out of the sow from death came red armies
and now they broke in to Shangai

There are those that never can learn from history
and new harvests are awaited further ahead
For now the reaction is sowing it's dragons sow again
on Java, in Greece and in Vietnam

The can murder and hang and persecute and guard
and it'll probably last months and years
But history can't be turned back
and the tyrants will reap what they sow