
Date of issue: 07.05.1995
Record label: Atlantic
Song language: English
A League of Notions (with Laurence Juber) |
I’m here sitting in the wreck of Europe |
With a map of Europe |
Spread out in a hall of Versailles |
And every single nationality and principality |
Have come for a piece of the pie |
I’m sitting in the wreck of Europe |
With a map of Europe |
And the lines and the borders are gone |
We’ve got to do this jigsaw puzzle |
It’s an awful muddle |
But somehow we’ve got to go on |
Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings |
He’s got some Arab sheikhs and kings |
And we’re in debt to them somehow |
Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision |
Gonna sell him down the river |
There’s no time for him now |
I think I’m gonna take a piece of Russia |
And a Piece of Germany |
And give them to Poland again |
I’ll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia |
And hope that is how they’ll remain |
Then I’ll take a bit of Turkey |
Then a lot of Turkey |
This is all quite a heady affair |
There’s Persia and Iraq to pick up |
And there’s Churchill’s hiccup |
And we can’t leave it up in the air |
Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around |
And says «The time to act is now |
Won’t get this opportunity again» |
Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points |
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George |
And says «You know that |
God himself had only ten» |
Today I’m carried by a league of notions |
(It's a league of notions) |
By a league of notions |
I don’t think I quite understand |
(I don’t think I understand) |
I only know from this commotion |
(From this commotion) |
There’s a chance that we could turn |
The world in the palm of our hands |
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands) |
Voices in the corridors of power |
Candles burning hour by hour |
Still you know that to the victors go the spoils |
Such a great responsibility to make it fair |
And there must be some reparations now |
And don’t forget the oil |
Today I’m carried by a league of notions |
(It's a league of notions) |
By a league of notions |
I don’t think I quite understand |
(I don’t think I understand) |
I only know from this commotion |
(From this commotion) |
There’s a chance that we could turn |
The world in the palm of our hands |
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands) |
Pax vobiscum |
Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum |
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