i. Sun
I remember. The enchanted English garden Days of summer air and nights The dance of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made than 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 Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The thunder The sighing of the monster... Come to break the weather to silence all the singing birds Tearing up the sky like White-welding dark steel of clouds And the release of the rain
The stops us The gold did The gold took lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet and demolition And the rain finding a lost 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 waiting, smiling On the borders in dawn's Or lost to the in their upturned boats be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Lives
I see in them The at the borders Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, sons and Denied our so-called streets from demolished lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We can't keep them in We can't keep letting in?
The gold us The gold did The gold took more lives Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I here wondering why A man beheaded on a Falls my pocket from the sky life Everything is everywhere .'know what I Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is everywhere Under the Under the hard-earned bought and paid-for Cushions, scented candles and the 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 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 hear God tells what to do The wars are all about always were And the money's dressed up in And when it's not showing off, the hiding.
Something is cooking me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming to live with Becoming to live with You say I'm becoming harder to with I'm harder to live with But you see into my head You can't see into my 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 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 Breathe of it The is carrying the pictures The rain is the names The wind-chimes in my garden ring like To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But only we are gifted with the to see On days f e a r, when our heads are clear angels, we could be.