FINISHED 'AFORE YOU CAME


History book's been signed and sealed
Films have all been made
Last blue note's on copyright
Plays have all been played

Last green wilderness been snatched
Last weird beast gone lame
Nothing for you here now kid
Finished 'afore you came

No new ideas coming through
But a splendid back issue
Last green plant been boiled up
And gobbled in a stew

Last great speaker shot down
Last radical been tamed
Nothing for you here now kid
Finished 'afore you came

File footage fills the news
Ain't nothing left to shoot
Speeches to the nation
Rolling on an endless loop

Bells have long stopped ringing
Ain't no hunchback Notre Dame
Nothing for you here now kid
Finished 'afore you came

Nothing too original
'Bout a whining bluesy song
World spins on an oily rag
Like an exec toy gone wrong

Glowing spark beneath the coals
Blow hard you'll lose the flame
Nothing for you here now kid
Finished 'afore you came



© David Lowe 1989