The World-New Model Army

[ti:The World] [ar:New Model Army] [al:New Model Army - The Collectio] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The World - New Model Army [00:36.53]The roll of distant thunder breaks [00:39.15]The afternoon of silence wakes [00:42.03]They hurry through from Petergate [00:44.97]As if they know this dance [00:47.91]In fury blind I drive at night across the moors [00:52.65]The open roads beneath the freezing starry skies [00:57.16]Racing in some trance [00:59.30] [00:59.86]These cities are illusions [01:02.24]Of some triumph over Nature's laws [01:05.55]We've seen the iron carcass rust [01:08.49]And buildings topple into dust [01:11.68]And as the waters rise [01:13.92]It seems we cling to all the rootless things [01:17.61]The Christian lies technology [01:20.11]While spirits scream and sing [01:22.52]Oh God I love the world [01:24.52]I love the world [01:26.08]I love the world [01:27.52]I love the world [01:29.14]I love the world [01:30.52]I love the world [01:32.02]I love the world [01:33.45]I love the world [01:35.14]I love the world [01:36.45]I love the world [01:37.89]I love the world [01:39.39]I love the world [01:40.96]I love the world [01:42.46]I love the world [01:43.89]I love the world [01:45.39]I love the world [01:47.33]Well I never said I was a clever man [01:49.95]But I know enough to understand [01:53.08]That the endless leaps and forward plans [01:56.21]Will someday have to cease [01:59.39]You blind yourselves with comfort lies [02:02.27]Like lightning never strikes you twice [02:05.26]And we laugh at your amazed surprise [02:08.33]As the Ark begins to sink [02:10.83] [02:11.45]This temple that is built so well [02:14.52]To separate us from ourselves [02:17.58]Is a power grown beyond control [02:20.45]A will without a face [02:22.77] [02:23.51]And watching from outside I wish [02:26.33]That I could wash my hands of this [02:29.20]But we are locked together here [02:32.14]This bittersweet embrace [02:34.38]Oh God I love the world [02:36.39]I love the world [02:37.83]I love the world [02:39.38]I love the world [02:40.88]I love the world [02:42.26]I love the world [02:43.76]I love the world [02:45.26]I love the world [02:46.82]I love the world [02:48.20]I love the world [02:49.70]I love the world [02:51.20]I love the world [02:52.70]I love the world [02:54.20]I love the world [02:55.63]I love the world [02:57.20]I love the world [03:00.88] [03:35.13]And if one day the final fire explodes [03:38.95]Across the whitened sky [03:40.51]I know you've said you'd rather die [03:43.38]And make it over fast [03:45.88]With courage from your bravest friends [03:49.13]Waiting outside for the end [03:51.76]With no bitterness but an innocence [03:55.19]That I can't seem to grasp [03:57.57]I know somehow I will survive [04:00.82]This fury just to stay alive [04:03.57]So drunk with sickness weak with pain [04:06.57]I can walk the hills one last time [04:09.69]Scarred and smiling dying slow [04:12.82]I'll scream to no one left at all [04:15.38]I told you so I told you so I told you so [04:26.07] [04:34.45]I love the world [04:36.14]I love the world [04:37.58]I love the world [04:39.70]I love the world [04:40.89]I love the world [04:42.02]I love the world [04:43.70]I told you so