i. Sun
I remember. The enchanted English walled Days of air and honey-suckled nights The dance of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more 3D, glowing in the evening long-shadowed 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 than Plutonium Pandemonium...
The approaches The heavy of the monster... Come to break the heavy Come to all the singing birds up the sky like paper White-welding through dark of clouds And the of the sudden rain
The stops us The gold did The gold more lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet engines and And the summer finding a lost child
The roads are by many promises of peace And some 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 in their upturned boats be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see myself in The at the borders to exist again Brothers, sisters, and daughters Denied our so-called golden Running demolished lives walls
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We can't letting them in We keep letting them in?
The stops us The gold did The gold more lives than Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand here why A man beheaded on a Falls into my from the sky Modern Everything is everywhere .'know I mean? Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is here Under the Under the bought and paid-for home Cushions, candles and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the rumble of the storm
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 we wave and will become blood red again
And the all say they hear voices God tells what to do The wars are all about always were And the money's up in religion And when not showing off, the money's hiding.
Something is cooking 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 harder to with But you can't see my head You can't see my head You see into my head
No, you see into my head.
And the roads are full of That slide by in the Tanks all covered in mud Pass you on the As you drive by with the kids and the and spades Days.
v. The Grandchildren of
in the air Brimstone in the Breathe of it The wind is the pictures The rain is muttering the The wind-chimes in my garden like keys To all the doors.
We are the grandchildren of apes, not But we are gifted with the eyes to see On days f e a r, when our heads are clear That angels, we be.