i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden of summer air and honey-suckled nights The capricious of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more than 3D, glowing in the evening sun better. But in England, although nothing really changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The stops us The always did The gold took more lives Uranium Plutonium Pandemonium...
The thunder The sighing of the monster... Come to break the heavy Come to silence all the 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 gold took lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet and demolition And the summer finding a lost child
The roads are travelled by promises of peace And some not to go The f e a r looks like It did I see them waiting, On the borders in dawn's Or lost to the world in their boats I'll be free or die trying to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see in them The people at the to exist again Brothers, sisters, sons and our so-called golden streets Running from lives walls
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We keep letting them in We can't letting them in?
The stops us The always did The gold more lives than Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand wondering why A man on a smartphone into my pocket from the sky Modern Everything is everywhere .'know what I Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is here the patio Under the hard-earned bought and home Cushions, scented candles and the Mowing to the and the rumble of the coming storm
We all know about the that are raging All the millions who cannot see There's so more that binds us than divides us But our f e a r it the papers stir it The of the flag we wave Were and will become blood red
And the all say they hear voices God tells what to do The are all about money They always 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 live Becoming harder to with You say I'm harder to live with I'm becoming harder to with But you see into my head You can't see my head You can't see into my
No, you can't see my head.
And the roads are of weapons slide by in the night Tanks all in yellow 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 wind is the pictures The is muttering 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 days without f e a r, when our heads are angels, we could be.