1. LONG LIVE MAN DEAD

The white skull lifted hand
Scratched bony finger sand
Ta salted bed
Wrote in blood poisoned red
Long live man dead

He would have like to be someone, sometime
Why does it have to be no-one, no time
Try to escape the machine
Fight his way back to the dream
Oh it's hard, it's hard to keep a good man down

Tear down the concrete trees
Find some real ones
Synthetic cuddly bears
Where are the real ones ?
Don't ask what one fool can do
A million fools made it come true

Rip out the office desks
Wood burn earth dust
Throw out the old orders
Life change it must
Talk about brave new world
Brave men died flags unfurled


2. PETER

Peter was a rebel
Who stood at Hyde Park Corner
Waving fists at crowd of pigeons strutting by
And policemen standing by
With arms folded behind their brains
Staring up at brick glass buildings
Whose computer zombies stared back
Through their windows with deep sockets
That once were seeing eyes

Peter was a rebel
Who realised that the population
Was really not interested
And now works in a computer mock mansion
Spewing tick-a-shit
For 12 hang-up-drop-dead-pounds a week
And watch the clock ticking
Through morning noon and night
To eternal sleep

3. SNAILS

Augustine, Victoria, Pictoria – et moi
Life is changing – changing
Clandestine, pre-philistine, euphoria
In me the battles raging – raging
Poor snail with big shell on back
Drags down to glitter cinder track
Only to find
That the weight has perverted her mind

Pentagon, Victorian, Historian – et moi
The windows misty – misty
Hilarious, Precarious, ‘Voltarious'
In me my shell is heavy – heavy
Curtail this please with expediency
Aim for love and harmony
And you'll find that the weight of your shell
Has perverted your mind
Has perverted your mind ... is me


4. TIME AND SPACE

Drifting through his dreams at night
Fireflies danced by their pale light
Moonshine stole his heart away
Time and space like spider's lace weaves on

Staring at the marbled skies
Night like weaves its love in sighs
Aura kissed her virgin thighs
Time and space like spider's lace weaves on

Somewhere voice disturbed the theme
Nature now destroyed the scene
Eagle poised his quarry seen
Time and space like spider's lace weaves on

He asked himself was he really alive
He took a plunge and prepared to dive
Say hey what's happening to me
Am I here or am I not ?
Void of consciousness
Can this mood I'm in come out of its spin
And when I crash down
When I reach the ground
I'll land, land noisily
Through the days of frozen fears
I heard me screaming
Suddenly awoke I found myself sleeping
Sinking through a whiskey glass
Touch of mature dreams will pass
Gently slipping, quietly, nightly sitting sipping


5. WHO SPOKE

Who spoke and disturbed the kiss
Who sighed, fern green silver'd simple bliss
Oil canvassed, new lover
Change sentence, recover
Change the language
Change the world I'm living in
Sounds foolish
Tears stream down – to crimson wounds
Somewhere between the eyes
Why am I the only one who feels sorry for me


6. IN SPITE OF HARRY'S TOE-NAIL

Goodbye – farewell – adieu
I don't know where I'm going to
I'll return when I've found why
I'm going now
Let me see your smile
See your smile till I return
Then we can laugh again
We can laugh again
I'm going now
Let me see your smile
I'm going now
Farewell
Goodbye
Goodbye