Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Wise After the Event, artist - Anthony Phillips. Date of issue: 04.02.2016
Song language: English
Wise After the Event |
| Four thousand monks in a maelstrom |
| All crying out for release |
| Three cheers for old Mother Hailsham |
| She’s sticking to her beliefs |
| A hundred ships took to the high seas |
| Intent on sailing the world |
| They might have known that a rainy sky |
| Would scatter swine before pearls |
| One by One, the Centaur is breaking its chains |
| And, after all, we’re blood and flesh and pain |
| Cover it up high, cover it up low |
| Cerebus stirring |
| Finally learning |
| Lamplighters' torches extinguish |
| The flames of our fate |
| Six sturdy Bold held the Tiber |
| Across the stakes they did swarm |
| And in a chance he was leaving |
| Throughout his watch he was warming their guards |
| I met a man on a spreading kite |
| Who set his course for the sun |
| But when I asked what he’d found up there |
| He said he’d just been for fun |
| Hour by hour, the Jigsaw is piecing together |
| In fear and dread, we wait the final act |
| Gathering up high, gathering up low |
| See how the earth quakes |
| Watch as the crust breaks |
| Beating the air as the hot wind |
| Comes blowing my way |
| A million men marched on Memphis |
| To pay respect to their King |
| But when they came to Fort Lauderville |
| They found they all had to sing — So we’re |
| Getting so much wiser, it’s so much fun |