i. Sun
I remember. The enchanted English walled Days of air and honey-suckled nights 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 stops us The gold did The gold took more than Uranium Plutonium Pandemonium...
The approaches The sighing of the monster... Come to break the weather Come to silence all the birds Tearing up the sky paper through dark steel of clouds And the of the sudden rain
The gold us The always did The gold took more lives Uranium Plutonium. Pandemonium. The Gold!
Jet engines and And the summer Like finding a child
The roads are travelled by Like promises of And choose not to go The f e a r looks bravado It did I see waiting, smiling On the borders in dawn's Or to the world in their upturned boats be free or I'll die trying to be to BE.
iii. Demolished
I see myself in The at the borders Waiting to exist Brothers, sisters, and daughters our so-called golden streets Running from lives Into
The "haves" and the "have nothings" The accepted and We can't letting them in We can't keep them in?
The stops us The always did The gold more lives than Uranium Polonium. Pandemonium.
And as I here wondering why A man on a smartphone into my pocket from the sky Modern is everywhere .'know what I mean? Handy. And obscene.
iv. F E A R
F E A R is everywhere Under the Under the hard-earned and paid-for home Cushions, scented and the lawn Mowing to the and the rumble of the coming storm
We all about the wars that are raging All the millions who just see There's so much more that binds us divides us But our f e a r it While the stir it The colours of the we wave Were and will become red again
And the madmen all say hear voices God tells them to do The are all about money They were And the money's up in religion And when not showing off, the money's hiding.
is cooking inside me... It ready, but already... I'm becoming harder to with Becoming harder to with You say I'm harder to live with I'm becoming to live with But you can't see into my You can't see my head You can't see my head
No, you see into my head.
And the roads are of weapons slide by in the night Tanks all covered in mud you on the motorway As you by with the kids and the buckets and spades Days.
v. The of Apes
in the air Brimstone in the Breathe of it The wind is the pictures The rain is muttering the The in my garden ring like keys To all the doors.
We are the grandchildren of apes, not But only we are gifted the eyes to see On days without f e a r, when our are clear That angels, we be.