Peter Hammill - Modern Lyrics

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Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at its heart :

People are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart...

Foundations are shattered in the city

Inside the barricaded doors -----

Hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls,

Maybe the people are waiting for trumpets....

Babylon's strange, seventh wonder of the earth :

Gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt

And, with your head on fire, you can't really see.

The hanging gardens sing,

But with a hollow ring :

The life is false, its killing me....

Don't look back, or you'll turn to stone;

Look around before your life is overgrown

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With concrete slabs!

On your back the searching eyes that stab

Between chintz curtains, glinting,

But never owning to a name -------

Like the inmates of asylums

All the citizens are contagiously

Insane....

Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age :

No-one really knows what to do, and the city

Is a cage.

It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,

Imprisons in the social order :

The city's lost its way,

Madness takes hold today...

I can't live under water

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