i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden Days of summer air and nights The capricious of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more than 3D, glowing in the long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, although nothing really changes, the always does...
ii. The
The gold us The always did The gold more lives than Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The approaches The heavy of the monster... Come to break the heavy to silence all the singing birds Tearing up the sky paper White-welding through steel of clouds And the of the sudden rain
The stops us The gold did The gold took more lives Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet and demolition And the rain Like finding a lost
The roads are by many promises of peace 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 lost to the world in their upturned be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see in them The people at the Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, and daughters our so-called golden streets Running demolished lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We can't keep letting 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 here why A man on a smartphone Falls into my pocket the sky Modern is everywhere .'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, candles and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the rumble of the coming
We all know about the that are raging All the millions who just 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 Were and become blood red again
And the madmen all say they voices God them what to do The wars are all about They always And the money's up in religion And when not showing off, the money's hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming harder to live harder to live with You say I'm harder to live with I'm harder to live with But you see into my head You see into my head You can't see my head
No, you can't see my head.
And the roads are of weapons slide by in the night Tanks all covered in mud you on the motorway As you drive by with the and the buckets and spades Days.
v. The of Apes
in the air Brimstone in the deeply of it The wind is the pictures The rain is the names The wind-chimes in my garden ring keys To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But only we are gifted with the to see On without f e a r, when our heads are clear That angels, we be.