New Model Army

The Word

New Model Army


The roll of distant thunder breaks 
The afternoon of silence wakes 
They hurry through from Petergate 
As if they know this dance 
In fury blind I drive at night 
Across the moors, the open roads 
Beneath the freezing starry skies 
Racing in some trance 
These cities are illusions of 
Some triumph over Nature's laws 
We've seen the iron carcass rust 
And buildings topple into dust 
And as the waters rise it seems 
We cling to all the rootless things 
The Christian lies, technology 
While spirits scream and sing ... 
Oh God I love the world 

Well I never said I was a clever man 
But I know enough to understand 
That the endless leaps and forward plans 
Will someday have to cease 
You blind yourselves with comfort lies 
Like lightning never strikes you twice 
And we laugh at your amazed surprise 
As the Ark begins to sink 

This temple that is built so well 
To seperate us from ourselves 
Is a power grown beyond control 
A will without a face 

And watching from outside I wish 
That I could wash my hands of this 
But we are locked together here 
This bittersweet embrace ... 
Oh God I love the world 

And if one day the final fire 
Explodes across the whitened sky 
I know you're said you'd rather die 
And make it overfast 

With courage from your bravest friends 
Waiting outside for the end 
With no bitterness but an innocence 
That I can't seem to grasp 
I know somehow I will survive 
This fury just to stay alive 
So drunk with sickness weak with pain 
I can walk the hills one last time 
Scarred and smiling, dying slow 
I'll scream to no one left at all 
I told you so I told you so I told you so ... 
Oh God I love the world