Song Lyrics
MOVING TO MIDNIGHT
Bugle sounds, men called to die,
He just smiled, tried not to cry
It's late, it's late to reason why.
Moving to midnight
mooving to midnight
WORDS OF GLASS
Lyndon Johnson :
I speak tonight for the dignity of man
and the destiny of democracy
Margaret Thatcher:
Where there is discord may we bring harmony
Where there is error may we bring truth
Where there is doubt may we bring faith
and where there is despair may we bring hope
I saw them on my TV screen
the smoothest show you've ever seen
such words of class
I heard them on my radio
those clear-cut vowels, you'd never know
they're words of glass
They sounded good and not typecast
their promises were built to last
- perhaps a 1,000 years
They're telling us just vote for them
their phrases sweet as saccharin
- when will we learn
George Bush:
From the day of our founding
we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth
has rights and dignity and matchless value
because they bear the image of the Maker of heaven and earth
They talked a lot of dignity
but not of inequality
- words of glass
They couldn't see discrimination
only one united nation
- words of glass
But everywhere I seem to see
just hunger, war and poverty
Manhattan may be paved with gold
but most are left out in the cold
George Bush :
And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq
your enemy is not surrounding your country, your enemy is ruling your country
and the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation
[Laughter]
They sounded good and not typecast
their promises were built to last
They're telling us to vote for them
their phrases sweet as saccharin
George Bush:
We exercise power without conquest
in the sacrifice for the liberty of strangers
Americans are a free people
and we know that freedom is the right of every person
and the future of every nation
Martin Luther King:
I have a dream
I have a dream, my poor little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin
but by the content of their character
I have a dream today....
gunshot................
BERLIN WALL
Child: At the end of the rainbow
they say there's a pot of gold
Jumped the Berlin Wall
Had a close call
I wasn't being me,
I had to be free
Go West young man
join the caravan
you can be who you are
I want to be free
I want to be free to buy a car
I want to ride the motorway to Shangri-la
I, I just want to be free
Now I've hit the West, joined the caravan
but I'm just a pawn to the money man
You can be who you are,but I don't want to be me
Oh freedom, what is freedom
oh freedom, what does it mean
I want to be free to buy a car
I want to ride the motorway to Shangri-La
I, I just want to be free
I want to be free so they give me a god
so Jesus Christ just give me a job
I need it now, if I'm going to be free
Out of work, on the dole
stuck in a rat hole
It's the same every day
it's a one-act play
You learn the same lines
you don't rock the boat
Oh freedom, what is freedom
Oh freedom, what does it mean
I want to be free so they give me a god
so Jesus Christ just give me a job
I need it now, if I'm going to be free
Child: They didn't say you could never reach the end of the rainbow