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Tonight we fly
Into the sun
Heartfelt goodbye
The time has come
All around the children weep
Hungry for the scraps they eat
Crying for a place to sleep
A place to call their own
Tonight we leave
Destination sun
You must believe
The time has come
Everywhere the bombs destroy
Blood for love on children’s toys
Hear their cries above the noise
A place to call their own
Tonight we part
Pathway to the sun
Make a start
The time has come
On the news the views the same
Poor excuses lay the blame
Pleas for children in His name
A place to call their own
David O’Connor
Vapour trail to nowhere new
City tail of riches rag
Closed the hope of several few
Overnight to pack a bag
Warming steel to winter green
On a bench still wet with dew
Paint and paper over scene
Far more left without a clue
Chorus:
In this here world of fortune change
This here time experience
In this here land of no-one blame
It’s your money and your sense
Black the tar of steaming glands
In a carriage built for two
Strong of arms and large of hands
Crafted face of nought to do
Reprise:
Vapour trail to somewhere new
Thick the fat on riches rag
Growing hope of several few
Overnight so pack a bag
David O’Connor
I fought a war, nobody came
Hung my head in bitter shame
To the hilt in battle dress
Adorning field of emptiness
My planned attack left no-one stand
Raised in anger not one hand
Sad the fact no swords to cross
No war to fight, I somehow lost
The enemy I thought so clear
In my head, I fought the fear
Stated challenge time and date
Arriving here to stand and wait
Chorus:
Enemy is in my mind
War I seek maybe I’ll find
What I feel to be a charge
Might only be my mind at large
I fought a war, nobody came
Stood my ground, no-one complained
Settled back, took aim to see
Just how wrong, wrong could be
David O’Connor
Like this:
We come to wait in silence
We come to wave the flag
No words buy our compliance
We think it’s not too bad
On seats we sit and listen
On hands we fail to raise
In mind our thoughts gone missing
Engaged in other ways
In rooms of comfort colour
In halls of ancient wise
In law we fail to bother
Indeed we choose denial
Chorus:
While we meet on worldly stage
On the streets the battles rage
Marching feet where problem laid
Riot police and truth brigade
In defeat….
An earthly age
David O’Connor
Lights down low
Clear as snow
Time has come
From ebb and flow
Tempo grows
For deed be done
Lost will to slow
Seed we sow
Craves the sun
Forget the no
Cover blown
Let deed be done
Bridge:
Watch the evening pastels draining from the sky
Know of no excuses, no words to try
Made our bed and now it’s up to us to lie
Who was it said where there’s smoke….
You’ll find a fire
Chorus:
Ugly fun
Naked heat
Ugly fun
Gallant in defeat
David O’Connor
Burning deep the southern sun
Out of reach the number ones
Throwing scraps, the needy run
Live another day
Drinking deep the dusty plain
Words I hear are all the same
Still selling slaves, little change
Buy another day
Swallow deep the smell of death
Can’t be too good for your health
Not a smell you will forget
Try another way
Chorus:
And in the evening of your life
Shades of light and paradise
Strike you dumb, you answer twice
All you left undone
And in the morning, soul surprise
Clamour from those hungry eyes
Crush you with your pack of lies
All you left undone
David O’Connor
Do you hear they’re talking freedom
Applauding no more war
Things that I’ve been reading
Suggest there’s peace in store
Don’t turn your back too quickly
Lock your guns away
Words come all too cheaply
Death the price to pay
And what about the science
Shape of things to come
Love (to) confuse and blind us
Espousing one plus one
Don’t throw away your gospel
On knees to DNA
Word be known but won’t tell
Salvation price to pay
Oh, did I forget to mention
Drive to feed the world
Sure got my attention
Waiting to be served
Stop! Don’t trash your giving
Believe they’ve changed their ways
Sweet words are for the living
Starving price to pay
David O’Connor
Are you melting for the moment
Are you running out on me
Is this world too cold for comfort
Done your time, now off to see
Are you melting for the moment
Warming to the chance be free
Finally, release from torment
Off to see what you can see
Bridge:
Sense of anger in your thawing
Pent-up feelings you’ve been storing
Obvious I’ve been ignoring
Sign of times to come
Chorus:
There’s a permafrost about you
Sweet and sour I can’t ignore
I would breathe a lot more easy
Stopped your teasing, that’s for sure
David O’Connor
Starving in Somalia
Drowning in the Strait
Exploding in Afghanistan
Dying be their fate
Raping in the Congo
Libya, the tanks
Appears we got it wrong again
Please, don’t deserve your thanks
Bleeding in the Balkans
Norway horror show
Bin Laden dead in Pakistan
Terror hasn’t slowed
Genocide Rwanda
Syria a blank
Appears we got it wrong again
No, don’t deserve your thanks
Fleeing from the Fretilin
Myanmar in chains
Mushroom cloud in old Japan
No-one left to blame
Soldier sons Uganda
Trafficking the rage
Appears we got it wrong again
Sorry….
Don’t deserve your praise
David O’Connor
Down behind the garden wall
Unbeknown to you and me
Sits a man who knows it all
What’s to come and what will be
Leaves this green of bed at night
Journey takes him near and far
Travellers’ friend in dim moonlight
Guided by a lonely star
Weary of the broken stream
Lays to rest at water’s edge
Into this so peaceful scene
Gold and sorrow easily led
Hours alone with eyes that see
World around a market stall
Mind full filled with prophecy
Watches fruit of Eden fall
Chorus:
Gold and sorrow, shine and sadness
Glitter draws us for a fee
Gold and sorrow, understand this
Never buy what’s given free
David O’Connor
In the distance rising
Above a naked flame
Innocence surprising
When we’re all to blame
Horizon close on choking
Smoking like a train
We really must be joking
Thinking we’ll explain
Shrouded city picture
Umbrella yellow stain
Tasty toxic mixture
When it starts to rain
Bridge:
And there we go again
Thinking we’ll explain
Asking who to blame
Not us, not us
Chorus:
Irony in what we burn
Fossil fuels, we’ll take our turn
A million years or so to come
We’ll help to keep the planet warm
David O’Connor
By the river of deception
In the land of peaceful lies
Voting in a rigged election
Puppet leader they despise….
Meanwhile, a soldier dies
In the rubble of a fortress
In a town of hidden fire
Voting seen as unimportant
Ancient hate and warring tribes….
Meanwhile, a soldier dies
Under shade of camouflaging
In a market, no surprise
Voting leaves its tell-tale marking
One the victims can’t deny….
Meanwhile, a soldier dies
Bridge:
Is it, was it all-important
Do we, did we have the right
Sons and daughters laying silent
Hungry lost the will to fight
David O’Connor
Did you hear the sky is falling
News wire overnight
Open graves, bodies clawing
Hungry for the light
While in the sleepy town of Westworld
Another race runs riot
Just another normal day
Another normal night
Did you see the rivers raging
Destroying all in sight
Breaking news, death displaying
Future far from bright
While in the filthy slums of Eastworld
Pandemic starts to bite
Just another normal day
Another normal night
Did you feel the earth a moving
Reporters turning white
Glaciers melting, finally proving
Scientists were right
While in historic halls of Northworld
Budget growing tight
Just another normal day
Another normal night
Did you taste the air of freedom
Souring with the strife
Terrorism for no reason
Someone else’s plight
While in the emptiness of Southworld
They aim their satellites
Just another normal day
Another normal night
David O’Connor
Soaked through to the inner core
Never rains but it pours
Wringing wet and washed away
A perfect English summer’s day
Drowning threat from angry storm
One wrong move could see me gone
Dressed in dripping I’m afraid
Loves to rain on my parade
Grey the colour for the time
Umbrellas working for the blind
Slip and slide for muddy fall
Captive to both wind and squall
Chorus:
Coming down on me
Raining down on me
Weather-wise, a casualty
Coming down on me
David O’Connor
Mobile madness, all the rage
Twenty-four by seven days
Sad no longer wired to be
Cruising in tranquillity
Mobile madness, contact yes
Arriving with your SMS
Sad no longer wired to share
Stars above beyond compare
Mobile madness, ringtone blues
Hang on, call is coming through
Sad no longer wired to sense
Face-to-face experience
Mobile madness, twitter, tweet
GPS fixed on your street
Sad no longer wired to hear
Nature breathing slow and clear
Mobile madness, laugh out loud
Now you’re living in the cloud
Sad no longer wired to know
Reality a certain glow
David O’Connor
On the hour, every hour
Another mouth to feed
On the hour, every hour
Satisfy a need
By the minute, time be in it
Plastic wrapped and purged
By the minute, time be in it
Packaging absurd
In a second, heart it quickens
Pumping oil to drive
In a second, heart it quickens
Warm the homeland fires
Bridge:
Ruin such an ugly place
From a capsule deep in space
Bluish shade of green
Just a memory
Chorus:
Cut it down, burn it up
Never be the same
Future bound and out of luck
Living for today
David O’Connor
In the sixties, it was Russia
Seventies, the China plague
Pakistan, forget the era
Forgive me if a little vague
Cuba too, it got a mention
Think before Korean War
Vietnam, now that was special
Don’t get up, got some more
Can’t forget the Baltic nations
Afghanistan, tall tales and true
Persia lost its Shah to cancer
Now Iran, we’re watching you
Chorus:
Nothing more than good and evil
Sure sometimes we get it wrong
What’s the point of picking winners
‘Cause we don’t know what’s going on
Reprise:
In the dock, the eagle weary
In the dark, we wait to see
USA a turn of being
Bad or mad or enemy
David O’Connor
You see the crack in the world
London Bridge decline
Poring over horoscopes
Poor the future signs
You see the crack in the world
New York sinking fast
Thinking of the life you had
Think it’s in the past
You see the crack in the world
To Rome to say a prayer
Wondering if worth the trip
Wonder if still there
Bridge:
All the time the crack is growing wider
Swallowing the souls of days remain
All the time the growing fear inside you
Asking why you never made the change
David O’Connor
Awaking in my twenty-first century
Shaking hands with science in a tube
Satisfied my life is how it’s meant to be
Morning pill and breakfast in a cube
Looking in my twenty-first century
Watching morning break through filtered mask
Profit lost all reason and desire to see
Sceptics melting ice to take a bath….
Reasoned thought answered with a laugh
Bleeding in my twenty-first century
Needle breeding offspring on demand
Generations grafted onto family tree
Biologically and to a plan
Wishing in my twenty-first century
Knew back then the error of my ways
Dreaming Eden’s beauty and her sanctuary
Imagination eating for the taste….
Before recycled everything but waste
Bridge:
Twenty-first, come of age
Nothing worse I’d have to say
Twenty-first, to adulthood
Message clear and understood
David O’Connor
World is ticking over
Better change our ways
Melting moments into hours
Hours into days
Stains upon the windows
Oceans on the rise
Gale force when the wind blows
Holey northern skies
Black forest losing colour
Rain the strangest hue
Mudslides planned tomorrow
Arriving right on cue
Peat the methane freeing
Scented air we know
Horizon dead and bleeding
Damage deep below
Chorus:
Blind as bats, clear the picture
Deserting rats, sinking truth
You can cut the science lecture
Need to do what we must do
David O’Connor
