Album: Time Of The Last Persecution
Inside a bar of a sleeping town
There lay a sleeping man he wore a frown
A stranger woke him he looked around
Then he spoke I wrote it down
He said, “My climbing rope is broken,
And I cannot stay awake
Better fix it son no joking
For the omega day is come”
I went over to the stranger’s side
I began to speak but he read my mind
He said, “You know me from long ago”
Then he turned I watched him go
I said, “My climbing rope is broken,
And I cannot stay awake
Better fix it son no joking
For the omega day is come”
“Don’t Let My Marigolds Die” .: top
Please don’t take the sun from the sky
Don’t let them damage my eyes
Please don’t let my marigolds die
Though I well know they’re not mine
Hey don’t let no one get you down
Hey don’t let no one get you down
Please don’t let the rain blow away
Let it be there ‘til the day
When the city’s a museum and a rat is a friend
On the pavements of iron let the grass grow again
Please don’t take the sun from the sky
Don’t let them damage my eyes
“I Hear You Calling” .: top
I hear you calling from the riverbank
I will be coming when the air is black
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor
Some say messiah coming got to get it right
Some say messiah coming give me back my time
All my time is lying on the factory floor
And all my time is lying on the factory floor
I hear you calling
I hear you calling
I hear you calling
“Dust Filled Room” .: top
She sat smoking a cigarette
The fire on her legs
In the dust filled room she wished that the cigarette could last forever
But the fire died down and the cigarette burned out
And the room grew dark and she got up
And went out to see once again what it was that was outside
Oh I know that chair I’ve sat there
As one goes out another one sits down
In the dust filled room they wish that the cigarette could last forever
“’Til The Christ Come Back” .: top
When soldiers spoil your sleep
And writers steal your dreams
Don’t strain to hear the screams
When the light goes out
When the light goes out
Pain was all you knew
But I think you’re coming through
Like applause inside a zoo
When a lion gets out
When a lion gets out
When shadows take your hand
And mist is on the land
Hold on to your minds
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ comes back
‘Til the Christ come back
‘Til the Christ come back
‘Til the Christ come back
“Release Is In The Eye” .: top
Love is in the kitchen
Release is in the eye
I’m coming ‘round to get you
Though I cannot say what time
Vacating the chair
‘Cos I’ve had my share
Christ is in the bathroom
Look in any mirror on the wall
And Satan’s in the garden shed
He’d like to screw you all
Vacating the chair
‘Cos I’ve had my share
Moon is over the water
Business is on the boom
The clouds are in the thousand mountains
Asylum Street grows
Vacating the chair
‘Cos I’ve had my share
“Laughing Man” .: top
What mirth maketh you sailor?
Quietly laughing to yourself
You with your no wind in the rigging
Laughing into the sails
Spying out the humour
Playing with breezes you do not understand
Time will discreetly arrange
That no more shall be seen of you
Oh surely not would strike
Down a laughing man
“Inside The Keeper’s Pantry” .: top
Inside the keeper’s pantry
Spied an air hole and got away
Outside a horse was standing
And though the night was dark I rode away
I arrived in time to see the harbour sailing away
No, no, no you never left me
Back in the keeper’s pantry
Now I know where I belong among the houseflies
But still I think of outside
Where all the pain was, where all the pain was
I arrived in time to see the harbour sailing away
No, no, no you never left me
No, no, no you never left me
No, no, no you never left me
No, no, no you never left me
No, no, no you never left me
No, no, no you never left me
“Tell It Like It Is” .: top
Peace be in your breath and in your sighing
Peace be in your jack and in your blade
And peace be in your Sunday picnic
And your old school friends who’ve passed away
But tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
Peace be in your sight and in your seeing
Peace be in their bikes and in their door keys
And peace be in your team losing
And in your dustbin that blew away
But tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
Tell it like it is
“Plan D” .: top
Well now soon plan D
Will be released and the sea shall rise
And the skies open
And can’t you see you’re in on it?
You were born though you need not
Have been born here at all
And is that not some cause
For worship, being born among these trees?
Though the beast is lurking
Well Saint George he tried
Where he failed the sky will succeed
Shall be seen the hornets
Are you there to build a spire that blocks out the sky?
Your doors are open but are your minds?
Get down
And if you’re sane yes I’m mad him good him bad
My knees are not bleeding from kneeling
In death’s cathedral
Well now soon plan D
Will be released and the sea shall rise
And the skies open
“Pictures Of Adolf Again” .: top
In the papers, on the TV screens
Pictures of Adolf again
As sure as I sit here there will appear
Pictures of Adolf again
You’re wrong, you’re wrong
Throw down your cards
You’re wrong, you’re wrong
If you say Adolf he won’t come
OK deny representation
By leaders of all nations
But have you got, have you really got
Anyone to replace them?
You’re wrong, you’re wrong
Throw down your cards
You’re wrong, you’re wrong
OK then who’s gonna come?
Christ or Hitler? Christ or Vorster
Christ or all the Caesars to come?
That’s the choice, that’s the choice
Sooner or later
That’s the choice, that’s the choice
You’re gonna have to make
“Time Of The Last Persecution” .: top
I must stand by the side of the mountain
I must be where I know I must be
When you stand and face the gas masks and truncheons
You must know what it all really means
It is the time of the last persecution
And Caesar shall be raised
He will ask for his feet to be kissed by your sister
And your children will fear at his name
Do not avenge these deaths do not avenge them
You must know what it all really means
It is the time of the Anti-Christ know what I say
Make for your own secret place
And others will join you there
And you wait for the ships in the air
And you wait for a sign like a trumpet sounding
And you go out and walk to the Christ
And you go out and walk to the Christ
“Come A Day” .: top
There will come a day
There will come a day
Nations will not prevail
No nation will prevail
The lanes where you used to walk
Covered in leaves
The fields where you used to lay
Now covered in battle dress
But there come a day
There will come a day
Nations will not prevail
No nation will prevail
“Let All The Other Teddies Know” .: top
Teddy, don’t let the shadows get me
And be ready, Teddy for when the cupboard explodes
And don’t cry Teddy for there’s someone to turn to
And Teddy, let all the other teddies know
The only time I’m not tired is when I’m asleep
Everywhere there are angels but we never meet
Teddy, don’t let the shadows get me
And be ready, Teddy for when the cupboard explodes
[ All lyrics belong to Bill Fay. ]