i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden Days of air and honey-suckled nights The capricious dance of 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 always did The gold more lives than Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The thunder The heavy of the monster... Come to the heavy weather Come to silence all the singing Tearing up the sky like White-welding dark steel of clouds And the release of the sudden
The gold us The gold did The gold took lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet and demolition And the rain Like finding a child
The roads are travelled by Like of peace And some not to go The f e a r like bravado It did I see waiting, smiling On the borders in dawn's Or lost to the world in their boats be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see myself in The people at the Waiting to exist Brothers, sisters, sons and Denied our so-called streets from demolished lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The accepted and We keep letting them in We can't letting them in?
The stops us The always did The gold took lives than Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I here 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 and paid-for home 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 binds us than divides us But our f e a r it While the papers it The colours of the flag we Were and become blood red again
And the madmen all say hear voices God them what to do The are all about money They always And the dressed up in religion And when not showing off, the money's hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm harder to live 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 slide by in the all covered in yellow mud Pass you on the As you drive by with the kids and the buckets and Days.
v. The Grandchildren of
in the air Brimstone in the deeply of it The wind is the pictures The rain is the names The wind-chimes in my ring like keys To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But only we are gifted with the to see On days without f e a r, our heads are clear angels, we could be.