Nothing Grows

Dig it up, tear it out, sell it off for nothing Foreign hands in iron veins, and not a drop for me or you The forest screams, the rivers choke But the contracts signed in polished oak We raise our fists, we block the road They nod, then pave it with our bones Nothing grows in the north but greed Blood in the soil, and no one heeds Stockholm feasts while we bleed frost Our land, our life — they count as cost Nothing grows in the north but war Bases bloom behind closed doors The stars still shine, but we're going blind While the future’s sold for a mining find They call it progress, call it peace But there’s barbed wire beneath the lease NATO boots on Sámi ground US law in Swedish towns Signed in secret, sealed in hush Another deal in the southern crush They paved the path with empty pride And now we’re watched from the inside Hate in whispers, hate in brands Names carved deep in reindeer lands He spits the slur, then shakes your hand Small town poison, silent stand A snowmobile cuts like a blade In lands where rights were never paid Nothing grows in the north but greed Blood in the soil, and no one heeds Stockholm feasts while we bleed frost Our land, our life — they count as cost Nothing grows in the north but war Bases bloom behind closed doors The stars still shine, but we're going blind While the future’s sold for a mining find They take the trees, they take the ore Then beg for votes in corridor No roads, no rail, no right to know Just promises beneath the snow The court delays, the drills return They watch the world around us burn And call it green — this black machine Where nature dies in silence, clean Nothing grows in the north but scars Dug by greed and foreign cars We scream in frost, we fight in vain While they break the land again and again Nothing grows in the north but ghosts Forgotten lives, forsaken hosts But one day soon, the tide will turn And you will feel what we still burn