i. Sun
I remember. The enchanted English garden Days of summer air and honey-suckled The capricious dance of and cabbage-whites more than 3D, glowing in the evening long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, nothing really changes, the weather always does...
ii. The
The gold us The always did The gold took more lives Uranium Than Pandemonium...
The approaches The sighing of the monster... Come to break the weather Come to silence all the singing Tearing up the sky like White-welding through dark of clouds And the of the sudden rain
The stops us The always did The gold took lives than Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet engines and And the summer Like finding a 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 them waiting, On the in dawn's mist Or lost to the world in their upturned I'll be or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see myself in The at the borders Waiting to again Brothers, sisters, and daughters Denied our so-called golden Running from lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The accepted and We can't keep them in We can't keep letting in?
The gold us The always did The gold took more lives Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I stand wondering why A man on a smartphone Falls into my from the sky life Everything is everywhere .'know 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, candles and the lawn Mowing to the beat and the rumble of the coming
We all know about the wars are raging All the millions who just see There's so much more that binds us than 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 They were And the dressed up in religion And when it's not showing off, the hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming to live with harder to live with You say I'm becoming harder to with I'm becoming to live with But you can't see my head You see into my head You can't see into my
No, you can't see my head.
And the roads are full of 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 Breathe of it The wind is the pictures The rain is muttering the The wind-chimes in my ring like keys To all the doors.
We are the grandchildren of apes, not But we are gifted with the eyes to see On days without f e a r, when our are clear angels, we could be.