The Truce of Twilight

Enjoy it while it lasts 'cause soon it will be different

Pernicious playgrounds and new age cultism

Outbreaks of optimism, care homes of England

The famous good will dance in your fly-tips, so

Go raise your idols (Pull them out the marshes)

Go give them sanctuary (And put them in your new builds)

'Cause everything is now a life's dream (And the noise is rising)

Curtain twitches, cannot take out the sunscreen

It looks like it's come to rest

The truce of twilight, the echoes of the horned ooser

In a Southend caravan park from shore to Pierhead

The twelve to follow on, they're campin' on the clifftop

But they're not dreamin' just lookin' to midnight

Go fill your pockets now (With tomorrow's landfill)

Lions and unicorns (Sleepin' out in shop doors)

I saw dreamland (Glassy eyed demography)

Sleep of cut grass the swallows are returning

And it looks like they've come to rest

Bring me my shell box and my machine gun

'Cause you can't get over anything quite like this

Well, the water's darker than the mirror of the sky

And Danny Russo's playin' forever on the waterslide

Conscripted into ranks (Look what we have done)

The feckless and the lazy (Look what we've become)

Chicken collector man (Look what we have done)

The fortune teller, she sits with the starlings (Look what we've become)

Oh, the mass elopers turn to exhale (Look what we have done)

In the dance halls of England, hey (Look what we've become)

In the dance halls of England (Look what we have done)

In the dance halls of England