Tales of a Brighter Future
Mother time
I remember how we used to stand together
Waiting for the train to come
It was a goodbye
But not forever
If I knew now what I knew then
I would never let you go
Never let you go
Mother time had new ideas
Mother time says the end of all meeting is parting
The end of all building is destruction
But how else could we meet again
How else could we meet again
If I knew now what I knew then
I would never let you go
Never let you go
Darling Albion
We already reaped a bitter harvest
A mountain of dead
This time at home, in no time of war, instead of brown people far away
We hoped enough would see
The suffering, the starving children, rotting houses,
This time at home, in no time of war, instead of brown people far away
Conveniently always someone else, so they turned away sightless smug
Jackboot clown, slogans, comfort of easy lies
Slow violence, killing voiceless victims
The rose-tinted empire’s endless trick
Unheard, unseen, out of mind (of course)
Dear Albion
Do you know how much we love you?
We stand always with those suffering
Even you, lied to and abused,
Always speaking for the dead
Roaring in our despair, with love
Can you understand?
You are not the bank, but the currency?
Your hopes and dreams deep fried
A barbeque of lies
Darling Albion
While you slept birthright was stolen
Half awake you see some imagined other
While those without honour, or love for one another
Party on your bones
Point jaundiced finger
This time at home, in no time of war, at brown people not far away
They fooled you in your sleep
Dear Albion
Do know how much we love you?
So wake
I hear tomorrow roaring down at me
Relentless fire
Everything you love will one day be gone
But
So will all you hate
And that’s fine
It’s better
Better than better
So death or just temporary silent sleep
Before some complex chain of circumstance, cause and condition
Throws another pattern up on the beach?
Roaring down
Like wind that shakes the foundations
Wait long enough
It will be gone
So did you bend in the wind
Or did you hold hard
Let those foundations crack?
And that’s fine
It’s better
Better than better
Each life a brick in an infinite wall
The one who knows says
This is the way each relates to the other
And this body
This now
Becomes dust
Something persists,
Can be seen by subtle eye
But really
Nothing lasts
Everything changes
All plaited and pulling
Infinite rope, the strands
The causes and conditions
Just go back, and maybe loop
So there is no beginning
And that’s fine
It’s better
Better than better