I Love The World

<br>[Lyrics by J. Sullivan]<br><br>The roll of distant thunder breaks<br>The afternoon of silence wakes<br>They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance<br>In fury blind I drive at night<br>Across the moors, the open roads<br>Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance<br><br>These cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature`s laws<br>We`ve seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dust<br>And as the waters rise it seems we cling to all the rootless things<br>The Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and sing...<br>Oh, God, I love the world<br><br>Well I never said I was a clever man<br>But I know enough to understand<br>That the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to cease<br>You blind yourselves with comfort lies<br>Like lightning never strikes you twice<br>And we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sink<br><br>The temple that is built so well, to separate us from ourselves<br>Is a power grown beyond control and a will without a face<br>And watching from outside I wish that I could wash my hands of this<br>But we are locked together here, this bittersweet embrace...<br>Oh, God, I love the world<br><br>And if one day the final fire<br>Explodes across the whitened sky<br>I know you said you`d rather die and make it over fast<br>With courage from your bravest friends<br>Waiting outside for the end<br>With no bitterness but an innocence that I can`t seem to grasp<br><br>I know, somehow I will survive this fury just to stay alive<br>So drunk with sickness, weak with pain<br>I can walk the hills one last time<br>Scarred and smiling, dying slow<br>I`ll scream to no one left at all<br>I told you so, I told you so, I told you so...<br>Oh, God, I love the world