I Love the World

The roll of distant thunder breaks, the afternoon of silence wakes
 They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance
 In fury blind, I drive at night across the moors, the open roads
 Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance
 These cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature's laws
 We've seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dust
 And as the waters rise, it seems we cling to all the rootless things
 The Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and sing
 Oh God I love the world
 Well I never said I was a clever man but I know enough to understand
 That the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to cease
 You blind yourselves with comfort lies like lightning never strikes you twice
 And we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sink
 This temple that is built so well to separate us from ourselves
 Is a power grown beyond control, a will without a face
 And watching from outside I wish that I could wash my hands of this
 But we are locked together here, this bittersweet embrace
 Oh God I love the world
 And if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened sky
 I know you've said you'd rather die and make it over fast
 With courage from your bravest friends, waiting outside for the end
 With no bitterness but an innocence that I can't seem to grasp
 I know somehow I will survive - this fury just to stay alive
 So drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can walk the hills one last time
 Scarred and smiling, dying slow, I'll scream to no one left at all
 I told you so, I told you so, I told you so . .
 Oh God I love the world