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Modern - Live
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Peter Hammill
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This is called "Modern" 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 Oh, yes, but with your head on fire, you know that you can't really see And the hanging gardеns sing But with a hollow ring: The life is false, it's killing mе... Don't look back or you'll turn to stone; Look around before your life is overgrown 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 I can't live under water I can't live under water I can't live under water I can't live I can't live I can't live under water
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