Modern (2006 Digital Remaster) - 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

Yes 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

Today today today today today today

I can't live under water

I can't live under water

I can't live under water