There's a man walking
round the island with a snake cane
He picked it up in
Thailand from a hurricane
And you know he's not
gonna go there
He's been one time too long
Now all the gods are gone
(Though the game is gone)
The younger boys are drowning
in a shallow sea
The night belongs to snipers
in palm trees
And their sabres flashed like lightning
In the charge of the last brigade
They must have been afraid
Soldiers have their sorrow
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged it's
the dawn of another age
Of another age
Of another age
Of another age
The blood running down the blackboard on a
blank(?) screen (in a thin stream?)
The convicts shake their cages
of a bad dream
And they'll coach you in the classroom
that it cannot happen here
But it has happened here
I remember nothing that I memorized (The cockroach
cops are crawling on a battle ground)
I got my education from a black eye (The shields are in the shadows,
it's a college town)
And they'll teach you law and or der
If you dare to raise your hand
Spare the glove and spoil the man
Soldiers have their sorrow
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged
It's the dawn of another age
Of another age
Of another age
Thomas Paine and Jesse
James are old friends
And Robin Hood is riding
on the road again
We were born in a revolution and
we died in a wasted war
It's gone that way be fore
The dogs are chasing chicken
bones across the lawn
If that was an election, I'm a Viet Con g
So I pledge allegiance against the flag
and the (fall,flaw,cloth?) for
which it stand s
I'll raise raze it
if I can
(Pledge allegiance to the land)
Soldier have their sorrow
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged
It's the dawn of another age
Of another age
Of another age
Of another age