| See there! |
| A man born — and we pronounce him fit for peace
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| There’s a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease
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| We’ll take the child from him put it to the test
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| Teach it to be a wise man how to fool the rest
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| In the clear white circles of morning wonder
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| I take my place with the lord of the hills
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| And the blue-eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured
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| In neat little rows sporting canvas frills
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| With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
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| While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen
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| Saying -- how’s your granny and
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| Good old Ernie: he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win
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| The legends worded in the ancient tribal hymn lie cradled in the seagull’s call
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| And all the promises they made are ground beneath the sadist’s fall
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| The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun, behind the gun
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| And signal for the crack of dawn. |
| Light the sun. |
| Light the sun
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| Do you believe in the day?
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| Do you? |
| Believe in the day!
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| The Dawn Creation of the Kings has begun
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| Soft Venus lonely maiden brings the ageless one
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| Do you believe? |
| Believe in the day!
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| Do you believe in the day?
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| The fading hero has returned to the night
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| And fully pregnant with the day
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| Wise men endorse the poet’s sight
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| Do you believe in the day?
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| Do you? |
| Believe in the day!
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| Let me tell you the tales of your life
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| Of your love and the cut of the knife
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| The tireless oppression the wisdom instilled
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| The desire to kill or be killed
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| Let me sing of the losers who lie in the street as the last bus goes by
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| The pavements are empty: the gutters run red — while the fool toasts his god in
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| the sky
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| So come all ye young men who are building castles!
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| Kindly state the time of the year
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| And join your voices in a hellish chorus
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| Mark the precise nature of your fear
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| Let me help you to pick up your dead
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| As the sins of the father are fed
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| With the blood of the fools and
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| The thoughts of the wise
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| And from the pan under your bed
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| Let me make you a present of song
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| As the wise man breaks wind and is gone
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| While the fool with the hour-glass is cooking his goose
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| And the nursery rhyme winds along
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| So! |
| Come all ye young men who are building castles!
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| Kindly state the time of the year
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| And join your voices in a hellish chorus
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| Mark the precise nature of your fear
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| See! |
| The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you
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| And the hour of judgement draweth near
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| Would you be the fool
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| Stood in his suit of armour
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| Or the wiser man who rushes clear
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| So! |
| Come on ye childhood heroes!
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| Won’t your rise up from the pages
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| Of your comic-books your super-crooks
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| And show us all the way
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| Well! |
| Make your will and testament
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| Won’t you? |
| Join your local government
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| We’ll have Superman for president
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| Let Robin save the day
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| So! |
| Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
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| And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through?
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| They’re all resting down in Cornwall —
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| Writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual
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| So you ride yourselves over the fields
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| And you make all your animal deals
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| And your wise men don’t know how it feels
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| To be thick as a brick |
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