i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden Days of summer air and honey-suckled The dance of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more 3D, glowing in the evening long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, although nothing changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The gold us The gold did The gold took more than Uranium Plutonium Pandemonium...
The thunder The sighing of the monster... Come to break the weather Come to silence all the singing Tearing up the sky paper White-welding through dark steel of And the release of the sudden
The gold us The always did The gold took more than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet engines and And the summer finding a lost child
The roads are by many promises of peace And choose not to go The f e a r looks bravado It did I see waiting, smiling On the in dawn's mist Or lost to the world in their boats be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see in them The people at the to exist again Brothers, sisters, and daughters Denied our golden streets Running from demolished Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We keep letting them in We keep letting them in?
The stops us The gold did The gold took more lives Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand wondering why A man on a smartphone into 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 here the patio Under the bought and paid-for home Cushions, scented candles and the Mowing to the beat and the of the coming storm
We all know about the wars that are All the millions who cannot see There's so much more that binds us divides us But our f e a r it While the papers it The colours of the we wave Were and will become red again
And the madmen all say they voices God them what to do The wars are all about always were And the money's dressed up in And it's not showing off, the money's hiding.
Something is cooking me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming harder to with Becoming harder to live You say I'm becoming harder to live I'm harder to live with But you can't see my head You can't see my head You see into my head
No, you can't see my head.
And the are full of weapons That by in the night Tanks all in yellow mud you on the motorway As you drive by with the kids and the buckets and Days.
v. The Grandchildren of
in the air Brimstone in the Breathe of it The wind is carrying the The rain is muttering the The wind-chimes in my garden ring like To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But only we are with the eyes to see On days without f e a r, when our heads are angels, we could be.