STOP
THE WORLD
The
panorama of the city is wrong
In fact the city seems to be gone!
Burning rubber and smoke in my eyes
There's a flat burning
Junkheap for twenty square miles !
They took it into the nuclear mine
Judging by this they left nothing behind
Down in the bunkers in the crust of the earth
Now crouch the wealthy and the noble of birth
If
I could ride a train around the city
That holds this as our fate
I'd hide from electrocircuit central
To the shock inducer gate
Not forgetting the bypass
Across the Washington hooks
Throught the phones and desk and screens
Of the Kremlin's crook of crooks
There's
some panel in a circuit board
A destination of the override
Scanning the wild wind
Blowing through the Berlin Corridor
Spotlit in a palace
Shielded from dust
Malfunction or not
The failsafe is the crux
So far away from us
Shaking with the mystery tears
One
lonely night in Ladbroke Grove
Far away in the deserts of Omaha !
They got nailed down
swiss tights !
The banknotes of Europe
The Emperors and Kings
Curl in the autumn as the burning of leaves
And I've cleaned my black guitar
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