El Dorado (ii) The Gold - Marillion

The gold stops us

The gold always did

The gold took more lives than Uranium

Than Plutonium

Pandemonium…

The thunder approaches

The heavy sighing of the monster…

Come to break the heavy weather

Come to silence all the singing birds

Tearing up the sky like paper

White-welding through dark steel of clouds

And the release of the sudden rain

The gold stops us

The gold always did

The gold took more lives than Uranium

Than Plutonium, Pandemonium

The Gold!

Jet engines and demolition

And the summer rain

Like finding a lost child

The roads are travelled by many

Like promises of peace

And some choose not to go

The F E A R looks like bravado

It always did

I see them waiting, smiling

On the borders in dawn’s mist

Or lost to the world in their upturned boats

I’ll be free or I’ll die trying to be

Trying to BE