Modern (cut) Songtext
von Peter Hammill

Jericho′s strange, throbbing with life at its heart:
people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart...
Foundations are shattered in the city
inside the barricaded doors -----
hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls,
maybe the people are waiting for trumpets...

Babylon's strange, seventh wonder of the earth:
gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt
and, with your head on fire, you know you can′t really see.
The hanging gardens sing,
but with a hollow ring:
the life is false, its killing me...


Don't look back, or you'll turn to stone;
look around before your life is overgrown
with concrete slabs!
On your back the searching eyes that stab
between chintz curtains, glinting,
but never owning to a name -------
like the inmates of asylums
all the citizens are contagiously
insane...

Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age:
no-one really knows what to do, and the city
is a cage.
It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,
imprisons in the social order:
the city′s lost its way,
madness takes hold today...

I can′t live under water.

I can't live under water.

I can′t live under water.