Look Horizon - John Cale

The bears are in the forest

The Pope’s in Rome

I’m on a beach in Zanzibar

Or at least I’ll be here soon

What a shame we carry with us

The residue of fools

Instead of better wisdom

And Advance Tools

We prefer to be standing

Looking out from higher ground

Breathing air to lift the spirits

Or racing balloons in the Alps

While on the beach in Zanzibar

We’re struggling in the surf

Seeing the Look Horizon

Moving further away from us

And I close my eyes

I think it’s me

Out on the Look Horizon where I found you

Across the Nile

The Land of Pharaoh is digging up its past

The broken amulets of history

Strewn in our path

I feel like someone’s watching

Through a window frame

A child prodding a wounded insect

Next to a cow in the pouring rain