Modern (2006 Digital Remaster)

Modern (2006 Digital Remaster) Lyrics

Song Modern (2006 Digital Remaster)
Artist Peter Hammill
Album The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
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[00:09.84] Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at its heart
[00:16.20] people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart....
[00:25.77] Foundations are shattered in the city
[00:28.84] inside the barricaded doors;
[00:32.94] hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls,
[00:42.23] maybe the people are waiting for trumpets.
[00:47.98] Babylon's strange, seventh wonder of the earth
[00:54.51] gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt
[01:04.06] and, with your head on fire, you can't really see.
[01:11.19] The hanging gardens sing,
[01:15.75] but with a hollow ring :
[01:23.48] the life is false, it's killing me....
[01:33.84] Don't look back or you'll turn to stone;
[01:41.67] look around before your life is overgrown
[01:50.11] with concrete slabs.
[01:54.32] On your back the searching eyes that stab
[02:05.79] between chintz curtains, glinting,
[02:10.79] but never owning to a name...
[02:17.86] like the inmates of asylums
[02:21.29] all the citizens are contagiously insane....
[06:08.20] Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age
[06:14.32] no-one really knows what to do,
[06:17.46] and the city is a cage.
[06:23.88] It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,
[06:26.76] imprisons in the social order.
[06:30.41] The city's lost its way,
[06:33.76] madness takes hold today...
[06:42.57] I can't live under water.
[06:49.31] I can't live under water.
[06:57.37] I can't live under water.
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