i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden Days of summer air and nights The capricious dance of lavenders and Made more than 3D, in the evening long-shadowed sun better. But in England, although nothing really changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The stops us The gold did The gold took more lives Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The thunder The sighing of the monster... Come to break the heavy Come to all the singing birds Tearing up the sky paper White-welding through steel of clouds And the release of the sudden
The stops us The always did The gold more lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet engines and And the rain Like a lost child
The roads are by many Like of peace And some not to go The f e a r like bravado It did I see them waiting, On the in dawn's mist Or lost to the in their upturned boats I'll be or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see myself in The people at the Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, sons and Denied our so-called streets from demolished lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We can't letting them in We can't keep letting in?
The gold us The gold did The gold took more than Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand wondering why A man on a smartphone Falls my pocket from the sky life Everything is .'know what I mean? Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is everywhere Under the Under the hard-earned bought and paid-for Cushions, scented and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the of the coming storm
We all know about the that are raging All the millions who cannot see There's so much that binds us than divides us But our f e a r it While the stir it The colours of the flag we and will become blood red again
And the all say they hear voices God them what to do The wars are all about They always And the money's dressed up in And when not showing off, the money's hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm harder to live with harder to live with You say I'm becoming to live with I'm becoming harder to with But you can't see my head You can't see into my You see into my head
No, you can't see my head.
And the roads are full of That slide by in the Tanks all covered in mud Pass you on the As you by with the kids and the buckets and spades Days.
v. The Grandchildren of
in the air Brimstone in the deeply of it The is carrying the pictures The rain is the names The in my garden ring like keys To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But only we are with the eyes to see On without f e a r, when our heads are clear That angels, we be.