The Fixx - We Once Held Hands (Extended Version #2) video free download

"We Once Held Hands" is a song written and performed by The Fixx about how the mining of natural resources such as salt and oil throughout history has resulted in political and cultural conflicts and ultimately divided the world. The video footage is from Werner Herzog's documentary "Lessons of Darkness" and features noted locations from Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, including the "highway of death", bombed out targets and numerous raging oil well fires. The first version of this song was recorded during the "Happy Landings" sessions in 1996 which ended up on an unreleased 5 song EP. Two years later, a 3:56 length version appears on the band's 7th studio CD "Elemental". An 8:25 length extended version also exists but the version in this video is 7:48 long and appears on the 2001 CD "Happy Landings and Lost Tracks" which includes some alternate takes of songs on "Elemental". The five members of the band from their heyday are still together, touring and recording with a new CD out in 2010. Check out thefixx.com or thefixx.net for more information.

Lyrics:

Salt, deep in the earth

Salt, has it's worth

Salt, three kings, a birth

Sweet earth! What's it worth?

Mine, well it's all for me

Mine, I'll dig it for free

With slavery, wait and see

We once held hands

This common land

We once held hands

We had no plans.

Oil, the blood that spoils

Oil, the hand that toils

Oil, the gun that recoils wheres the oil?

Mine, well it's all for me

Mine, I'll pump it free

Mine, with slavery

Dead sea, wait and see.

We once held hands

This common land

We once held hands

We had no plans.

Blood, running red

Blood, I want his head

Blood, alive or dead, rage is fed.

Crime, humanity

Crime, hostility

Crime, religiously

Impose your will, blood will spill.

We once held hands

This common land

We once held hands

We had no plans,

Salt, it will preserve

Salt, deep in the earth

Salt, deep in the earth

What's it worth?

Mine, well it's all for me

Mine, can I have it for free?

Mine, with slavery, dead sea, wait and see.