Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song After These Wars, artist - Ian Anderson.
Date of issue: 13.04.2014
Song language: English
After These Wars |
After battle, with wounds to lick and |
Beaus and belles all reuniting |
Rationing, austerity: it did us |
Good after the fighting |
Now, time to bid some fond farewells and |
Walk away from empires crumbling |
Post-war baby-boom to fuel with post- |
Victorian half-dressed fumbling |
I see a screen, grey cathode tube in |
Walnut cabinet, pride of place |
In holy family living room. |
Clipped- |
Tone announcer, powdered face |
And now to mould public opinion |
Sanctify the good and great |
Lordly over his dominion, brash |
Television seals our fate |
After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing |
After these wars, when stocking tops were showing |
When the Co-op gave us daily bread |
And penicillin raised the dead |
And combine harvesters kept |
Us fed, after these wars |
We thanked the Yank and thanked the |
Lord for sparing us from dark invasion |
Now to liberate, rebuild and balance |
Europe’s new equation |
Spooky spies in from the cold with |
Lies and secrets to be sold |
To bigger brothers, bigger bombs |
Le Carré thrillers to be told |
We take our place amongst those others |
Who would punch above their weight |
Divest ourselves of glowing mantle |
Mantle of old Britain Great |
Bit part cast in Hollywood, ripe |
Old thespian, tolerated |
World-weary ham upon the stage |
Evergreen but over-rated |
After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing |
After these wars, when stocking tops were showing |
When the Co-op gave us daily bread |
And penicillin raised the dead |
And combine harvesters kept |
Us fed, after these wars |