Blacktop pavement cover me
Like a chemical reaction
or a steam roller
Spreading randomly
There's a distant buzz
and a low frequency
It tickles my eaR
rumbles under my feet
And it shakes the leaves
off of every tree
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
Institution on the Hill
Like a beacon
in the mind of an ancestor
To ignite a people's will
There's a shadowed stain
on the west facade
It has spread like decay
to enshroud the fraud
And the descendants
find it oh so odd oh so odd
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
<Interlude>
Grave memorial hewn white stone
Like the comforting
caress of a mother
Or a friend you've always known
It evokes such pain
and significance
What was once reduced
is now rememberance
And the generations
pass without recompense
What pretension
Everlasting peace
Everything must cease
<Interlude>
Everything must
cked down
and they put you first in line
And so you finally ask yourself
just how big you are
and take your place in a wiser
world of bigger motor cars
<Intelrude>
So Where the hell was Biggles
when you needed him
last Saturday
And where were all the sportsmen
who always pulled you though
They're all resting down
in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs
for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual
See there!  A man born