while they're spitting in your face from the radio 
printing papers in pretty pink to help you cope
and you latch onto every word that the kiler spoke
because you mentioned something dear like you was loosing hope

so you kick yourself when you see the result
you see he's laughing because he's got you in some kind of cult 
now he's skinned you alive and he wears your sole as a coat
to see how easy you can fall for he's stupid joke

this ship as cracked into two
no one knows what to do
while the rogue captain says were through 
better listen to me now boy
he says jump right now
before we capzize
do it or die
if you must survive 
an they all jumped and he hung on
they all drowned and he lived on 

while they shove it in your face with a scent and a taste
they know how to spin the atlas before you start race
and your pumping your heart flat just to begin each day
something you lost when you was a papa but you can't replace

there's a swinging gate where we can sit and wait
and when it's suddenly silent it spreads more hate 
and you stare at the calendar and you decorate the date
it's covered in glitter and glue and a peculiar fait

this ship as cracked into two
no one knows what to do
while the rogue captain says were through 
better listen to me now boy
he says jump right now
before we capzize
do it or die
if you must survive 
an they all jumped and he hung on
they all drowned and he lived on

He Lives On

Safe and Sound

I see the gage fall near
there's not a conscious to run clear
in the silent forever sleeping night
tiny hands they dig in rubble
doctors and nurses work over double
and the sand is no longer blonde

for they can get it for real cheap
with all the power and marching feet
any family, society they'll destroy
and it's to deep to dig
and the north pipe as come weak
do you ever see a baron weep

poisoned by he's mothers milk 
he yearned restless in he's quilt
as he rubs the rags with blood in he's hands
and the dust beneath he's feet
is no more free then he or she 
or then the ground he sniffs around 

they'll stretch them far and wide
they'll divide every tribe
for he's already cased he's trial
and out of a near bed
comes a child half dead 
who's been buried deep and alive

a once trusted kind claimed he'd become blind
but no world leader should be trust more than twice
yet when the torch fully shined 
they found nothing of the kind
and he became red and left behind

the soldiers drive on by 
planes pass in the sky 
and the floor is littered with mines
and before the storm is set
the children cry to the sound of jets
as they take refuge in their stolen homes

he sent them on a march 
fully equiped and mega charged
by the backing of a thousand battle ships 
with the shake of silent hands
to unleash terror with one damand
for our 1% of mankind

the newsreader plane as ice
explain the drout of rice
and the children mix butter with mud
and the leaders join the ring 
and do nothing of everything
with a fist a thump and  a triumph

and the big boy made the call
he said invade it all
bury the dead use diggers at dawn
search factories and stalls
from the valleys to the waterfalls 
shoot the perpetrators against the walls

through the battles and the brawls
claret stains the soils
their ruthless plot was foiled
for when they climbed the tall walls 
to find nothing at all 
only barons and blood for oil

Andrew Bradshaw