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 can't really see.
The hanging gardens sing,
But with a hollow ring :
The life is false, it's 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.
- :
- Peter Hallock: Countertenor Recital (1975)
- Live at Rockpalast, Hamburg 1981
- Other World
- Consequences
- Thin Air
- Miscellaneous
- Fireships
- The Fall Of The House Of Usher
- Out Of Water
- Patience
- Sitting Targets
- A Black Box
- PH7
- The Future Now
- Over
- The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
- In Camera
- Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
- The Love Songs
- Refugees: A Charisma Records Anthology 1969-1978