i. Sun
I remember. The English walled garden Days of summer air and nights The capricious dance of lavenders and more than 3D, glowing in the evening long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, although really changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The stops us The always did The gold took more than Uranium Plutonium Pandemonium...
The thunder The sighing of the monster... Come to the heavy weather Come to silence all the birds Tearing up the sky paper White-welding through steel of clouds And the release of the rain
The gold us The always did The gold took more 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 like bravado It did I see waiting, smiling On the borders in mist Or lost to the world in their upturned I'll be free or die trying to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see myself in The people at the Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, sons and Denied our golden streets Running from lives walls
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The and rejected We keep letting them in We can't keep letting in?
The gold us The always did The gold took more lives than Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I here wondering why A man on a smartphone Falls into my from the sky Modern is everywhere .'know what I mean? Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is everywhere the patio Under the hard-earned bought and paid-for Cushions, scented and the lawn to the beat and the rumble of the coming storm
We all know about the that are raging All the who just cannot 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 will become blood red
And the all say they hear voices God tells them to do The are all about money always were And the money's up in religion And it's not showing off, the money's hiding.
Something is inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming to live with Becoming harder to with You say I'm becoming harder to with I'm becoming harder to with But you can't see my head You can't see into my You can't see into my
No, you see into my head.
And the roads are full of That slide by in the all covered 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 Breathe of it The is carrying the pictures The rain is muttering the The wind-chimes in my garden like keys To all the doors.
We are the of apes, not angels But we are gifted with the eyes to see On days f e a r, when our heads are clear angels, we could be.