Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Modern , by - Peter Hammill. Song from the album In The Passionkirche Berlin 1992, in the genre Иностранный рокModern |
| Jericho’s strange, throbbing with life at its heart — |
| People are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart… |
| Foundations are shattered in the city |
| Inside the barricaded doors; |
| Hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls |
| Maybe the people are waiting for trumpets |
| Babylon’s strange, seventh wonder of the earth — |
| Gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt |
| And, with your head on fire, you can’t really see |
| The hanging gardens sing |
| But with a hollow ring: |
| The life is false, it’s killing me… |
| Don’t look back or you’ll turn to stone; |
| Look around before your life is overgrown |
| With concrete slabs |
| On your back the searching eyes that stab |
| Between chintz curtains, glinting |
| But never owning to a name… |
| Like the inmates of asylums |
| All the citizens are contagiously insane… |
| Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age — |
| No-one really knows what to do |
| And the city is a cage |
| It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers |
| Imprisons in the social order |
| The city’s lost its way |
| Madness takes hold today… |
| I can’t live under water |
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Airport | 2005 |
| Forsaken Gardens | 2005 |
| Open Your Eyes | 2005 |
| People You Were Going To | 2005 |
| Mirror Images | 2005 |
| The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning | 2005 |
| Pompeii | 2005 |
| The Birds | 1970 |
| Nadir's Big Chance | 1992 |
| Been Alone So Long | 1992 |
| The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa) | 2005 |
| Red Shift | 2005 |
| Time Heals | 2005 |
| A Way Out | 2009 |
| Rubicon | 2005 |
| A Louse Is Not A Home | 2005 |
| (No More) The Sub Mariner | 1973 |
| Faint Heart And The Sermon | 2005 |
| Again | 1973 |
| Wilhelmina | 1992 |