Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jeff Wayne
Conductor
Richard Burton
Performer
David Essex
Performer
Gary Osborne
Background Vocals
Paul Vigrass
Background Vocals
Billy Lawrie
Background Vocals
Gareth Cousins
Programming
Jo Partridge
Guitar
Chris Spedding
Guitar
George Fenton
Zither
Herbie Flowers
Bass Guitar
Ray Cooper
Percussion
Roy Jones
Percussion
Barry Da Souza
Percussion
Barry Morgan
Drums
Ken Freeman
Synthesizer
Jerry Wayne
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Gary Osborne
Composer
Jeff Wayne
Arranger
Gareth Cousins
Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Gareth Cousins
Mixing Engineer
Jerry Wayne
Executive Producer
Geoff Young
Engineer
G. Schurrer
Assistant Engineer
Laurence Diana
Assistant Engineer
Gary Langan
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves
Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right?
So we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us
You know where? Underground
You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains
Sweet and clean now after the rain
Dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything
Start again from scratch
And what's so bad about living underground eh?
It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion
Take a look around you at the world we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show
But maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow
In a brave new world
With just a handful of men
We'll start, we'll start all over again
All over again, all over again, all over again
We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks right under their noses, right under their feet!
Everything we need, banks, prisons and schools
We'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff, and men like you will teach the kids
Not poems and rubbish, science, so we can get everything working
We'll build villages and towns and... and we'll play each other at cricket!
Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a fighting machine, eh?
Learn how to make 'em ourselves and then wallop!
Our turn to do some wiping out!
Whoosh with our Heat Ray
Whoosh! And them running and dying
Beaten at their own game
Man on top again!
Now our domination of the Earth is fading fast
And out of the confusion the chance has come at last
To build a better future from the ashes of the past
In a brave new world
Give me a handful of men
We'll start all over again
Look, man is born in freedom an' he soon becomes a slave
In cages of convention from the cradle to the grave
The weak fall by the wayside but the strong will be saved
In a brave new world
With just a handful of men
We'll start all over again
I'm not trying to tell ya what to be
Oh no, oh no, not me
But if mankind is to survive
The people left alive
They're gonna have to build this world anew
Yes and we will have to be the chosen few
Just think of all the poverty, the hatred and the lies
And imagine the destruction of all that you despise
Slowly from the ashes that phoenix will arise
In a brave new world
With just a handful of men
We'll start, we'll start all over again
All over again, all over again, all over again
I've got a plan!
Writer(s): Gary Anthony Osborne, Jeff Wayne
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