Late Home Tonight, Part I-Roger Waters

[ti:Late Home Tonight, Part I(Albu] [ar:Roger Waters] [al:Amused To Death] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Late Home Tonight, Part I - Roger Waters [00:27.35]Standing at the window [00:28.66] [00:31.72]A farmer's wife in Oxford shire [00:33.72] [00:36.27]Glances at the clock; it's nearly time for tea [00:39.08] [00:39.71]She doesn't see [00:40.77]The phantom in the hedgerow dip its wings [00:43.01] [00:44.57]Doesn't hear the engine sing [00:46.94] [00:48.82]But in the cockpit's techno glow [00:50.56] [00:51.37]Behind the Ray Ban© shine [00:52.93] [00:56.62]The kid from Cleveland [00:57.68] [00:58.20]In the comfort of routine [00:59.32] [01:00.06]Scans his dials and smiles [01:01.81] [01:05.37]Secure in the beauty of military life [01:08.11] [01:14.87]There is no right no wrong [01:17.24] [01:17.93]Only tin cans and cordite and white cliffs [01:21.61]And blue skies and flight flight flight [01:27.51] [01:32.58]The beauty of military life [01:34.89] [01:35.83]No questions only orders and flight only flight [01:40.82] [01:43.13]What a beautiful sight in his wild blue dream [01:50.18] [01:51.49]The eternal child leafs through his war magazines [01:54.48] [01:55.86]And his kind Uncle Sam feeds ten trillion in change [01:58.93] [01:59.49]Into the total entertainment combat video game [02:02.61] [02:05.30]And up here in the stands [02:06.98]The fans are going wild [02:08.10] [02:09.29]As the cheerleaders flip [02:10.85]When you wiggle your hip [02:11.97] [02:13.59]And we all like the bit when you take [02:15.78]The jeans from the refrigerator and [02:17.78]Then the bad guy gets hit [02:19.21] [02:20.77]And were you struck by the satisfying way [02:23.89]The swimsuit sticks to her skin [02:25.76]Like BB gun days [02:28.62]When knives pierce autumn leaves [02:30.68]But that's okay see the children bleed [02:33.99]It'll look great on the TV [02:36.42] [02:50.74]And in Tripoli another ordinary wife [02:57.12] [02:59.80]Stares at the dripping tap her old man hadn't [03:03.94]Time to fix [03:05.07]Too busy mixing politics and rhythm [03:08.25]In the street below