Goddamn Europeans!
Take me back to beautiful England
and the grey, damp filthiness
of ages, and battered books, and
fog rolling down behind the mountains,
on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.
Let me walk through the stinking alleys
to the music of drunken beatings,
past the Thames River, glistening like gold
hastily sold for nothing.
Nothing.
Let me watch night fall on the river,
the moon rise up and turn to silver,
the sky move,
the ocean shimmer,
the hedge shake,
the last living rose quiver.
Take me back to beautiful England
and the grey, damp filthiness
of ages, and battered books, and
fog rolling down behind the mountains,
on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.
Let me walk through the stinking alleys
to the music of drunken beatings,
past the Thames River, glistening like gold
hastily sold for nothing.
Nothing.
Let me watch night fall on the river,
the moon rise up and turn to silver,
the sky move,
the ocean shimmer,
the hedge shake,
the last living rose quiver.
Contributed by Chien Andalou - 2013/12/1 - 08:30
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[2011]
Da “Let England shake”, con John Parish e Mike Harvey.
Leggi anche
Il conflitto globale permanente
articolo di Rachele Cinarelli
Recensione di Stefano Solventi
Let England Shake - The Last Living Rose - The Glorious Land - The Words That Maketh Murder - All and Everyone - On Battleship Hill - In the Dark Places - Bitter Branches - Hanging in the Wire - Written on the Forehead - The Colour of the Earth
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