i. Sun
I remember. The enchanted English walled Days of air and honey-suckled nights The dance of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more than 3D, glowing in the evening sun Nowhere better. But in England, although nothing really changes, the weather does...
ii. The
The gold us The always did The gold took more lives than Plutonium Pandemonium...
The approaches The sighing of the monster... to break the heavy weather Come to all the singing birds Tearing up the sky paper White-welding dark steel of clouds And the release of the rain
The gold us The always did The took more lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet and demolition And the rain Like finding a child
The roads are by many Like promises of And choose not to go The f e a r looks bravado It did I see them waiting, On the in dawn's mist Or to the world in their upturned boats I'll be free or I'll die to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see myself in The at the borders Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, and daughters Denied our so-called streets Running from lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We can't keep them in We can't keep letting in?
The stops us The gold did The gold took more lives than Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand wondering why A man on a smartphone Falls my pocket from the sky Modern Everything is .'know what I mean? Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is everywhere the patio Under the hard-earned bought and paid-for Cushions, scented and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the rumble of the coming
We all know about the wars that are All the millions who just see There's so much more that us than divides us But our f e a r it the papers stir it The colours of the flag we Were and will become blood red
And the madmen all say they voices God them what to do The wars are all money They were And the money's dressed up in And it's not showing off, the money's hiding.
Something is inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming harder to live Becoming harder to with You say I'm becoming harder to with I'm harder to live with But you can't see into my You can't see into my You can't see into my
No, you see into my head.
And the are full of weapons slide by in the night Tanks all covered in mud you on the motorway As you drive by the kids and the buckets and spades Days.
v. The Grandchildren of
in the air Brimstone in the Breathe of it The is carrying the pictures The is muttering the names The wind-chimes in my garden like keys To all the doors.
We are the grandchildren of apes, not But only we are gifted with the to see On days without f e a r, when our heads are That angels, we be.