i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden of summer air and honey-suckled nights The capricious dance of and cabbage-whites Made more than 3D, in the evening long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, although really changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The gold us The gold did The gold took lives than Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The approaches The heavy of the monster... Come to break the weather to silence all the singing birds Tearing up the sky paper White-welding through dark 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 engines and And the summer Like finding a child
The roads are travelled by Like promises of And some not to go The f e a r like bravado It did I see them waiting, On the borders in mist Or lost to the in their upturned boats I'll be free or I'll die to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see myself in The at the borders Waiting to exist Brothers, sisters, sons and Denied our so-called golden Running from demolished Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The accepted and We can't keep them in We keep letting them in?
The stops us The always did The gold took more lives than Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand here why A man beheaded on a 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 hard-earned bought and paid-for Cushions, scented and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the rumble of the coming
We all know the wars that are raging All the millions who cannot see There's so much more that binds us divides us But our f e a r it the papers stir it The colours of the we wave and will become blood red again
And the madmen all say they voices God tells what to do The wars are all about They were And the money's dressed up in And when it's not showing off, the hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming harder to live harder to live with You say I'm becoming to live with I'm becoming to live with But you can't see my head You can't see my head You can't see into my
No, you see into my head.
And the roads are full of That slide by in the Tanks all covered in mud you on the motorway As you drive by with the 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 wind-chimes in my garden ring keys To all the doors.
We are the grandchildren of apes, not But we are gifted with the eyes to see On days without f e a r, when our are clear angels, we could be.