New Model Army - I Love The World Lyrics
The roll of distant thunder breaks, the afternoon of silence wakesThey hurry through from Petergate as if they know this danceIn fury blind, I drive at night across the moors, the open roadsBeneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some tranceThese cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature's lawsWe've seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dustAnd as the waters rise, it seems we cling to all the rootless thingsThe Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and singOh God I love the worldWell I never said I was a clever man but I know enough to understandThat the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to ceaseYou blind yourselves with comfort lies like lightning never strikes you twiceAnd we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sinkThis temple that is built so well to separate us from ourselvesIs a power grown beyond control, a will without a faceAnd watching from outside I wish that I could wash my hands of thisBut we are locked together here, this bittersweet embraceOh God I love the worldAnd if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened skyI know you've said you'd rather die and make it over fastWith courage from your bravest friends, waiting outside for the endWith no bitterness but an innocence that I can't seem to graspI know somehow I will survive - this fury just to stay aliveSo drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can walk the hills one last timeScarred and smiling, dying slow, I'll scream to no one left at allI told you so, I told you so, I told you so . .Oh God I love the world
