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 Natureïs laws
   Weïve 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
   This temple that is built so well
   To seperate us from ourselves
   Is a power grown beyond control
   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 youïre said youïd rather die
   And make it overfast
   With courage from your bravest friends
   Waiting outside for the end
   With no bitterness but an innocence
   That I canït 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
   Iïll 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