We are late like a midnight train that's running nowhere 
We are sticks we are stones we are broken bones we are hot air 
We are under the guillotine trying to fix our hair 

There's computers clicking binary genius into the night 
There are formulas, remedies, reasons, there is hindsight 
There's the smell of artillery, There's the sky alight 

We are bedrock we're undergound we are sharp as the rain 
We are gathering pace we are thunder wrapped in cellophane 
We are running from the storms of our youth into more of the same 

There's a motorway service station on a January day 
There's a lunchtime radio show there's the shit that they play 
There's the percussion of buttons and keys in a cybercafe 

We are some distant TV channel a lesson grown old 
We are rhythm and rhyme, partners in crime we are fools gold 
We are free as the wind through the trees or so we are told 

There's some faded out manuscript paper and an old clarinet 
There is cash on the table there's a tapestry alphabet 
There's the moon and the tide and all the songs not written yet 
There's the moon and the tide and all the songs not written yet