[Verse 1]
Steel air
Orange dust in my teeth
River stinks like rust
Moonlight on busted concrete
Boots scrape
Forty shadows crawl in
Five of us spit blood
Grin at the circling vultures
[Chorus]
Riverfront red
Paint the banks in a war-drum rhythm
Riverfront red
Teeth in the gutter
Knuckles risen
Let the Murray drink what’s left of our fear
Riverfront red
We drag them under right here
[Verse 2]
First swing
Jaw snaps like a branch
Glass rain
Skulls drum on the ramp
Hear your own bones hum
Warm spit on your tongue
Laughing through a broken lip
Daring every coward to come
[Bridge]
Five against a plague of faces
Boot prints stamped in our ribs
Forty throats all screaming cages
We answer with cracked fists
[Chorus]
Riverfront red
Paint the banks in a war-drum rhythm
Riverfront red
Teeth in the gutter
Knuckles risen
Let the Murray drink what’s left of our fear
Riverfront red
We drag them under right here (right here)
[Chorus]
Riverfront red
Five stand tall in the writhing circle
Riverfront red
Forty fall to the dying gurgle
Let the river hold the secrets they bled
Riverfront red
Riverfront red