The World Lyrics - Singles - New Model Army

The roll of distant thunder breaks 

The afternoon of silence wakes 

They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance 

In fury blind I drive at night 

Across the moors, the open roads 

Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance 

These cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature's laws 

We've seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dust 

And as the waters rise it seems we cling to all the rootless things 

The Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and sing... 

Oh, God, I love the world 

Well I never said I was a clever man 

But I know enough to understand 

That the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to cease 

You blind yourselves with comfort lies 

Like lightning never strikes you twice 

And we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sink 

The temple that is built so well, to separate us from ourselves 

Is a power grown beyond control and a will without a face 

And watching from outside I wish that I could wash my hands of this 

But we are locked together here, this bittersweet embrace... 

Oh, God, I love the world 

And if one day the final fire 

Explodes across the whitened sky 

I know you said you'd rather die and make it over fast 

With courage from your bravest friends 

Waiting outside for the end 

With no bitterness but an innocence that I can't seem to grasp 

I know, somehow I will survive this fury just to stay alive 

So drunk with sickness, weak with pain 

I can walk the hills one last time 

Scarred and smiling, dying slow 

I'll scream to no one left at all 

I told you so, I told you so, I told you so 

Oh, God, I love the world