After battle, with wounds to lick and
beaus and belles all reuniting.
Rationing, austerity: it did us
good after the fighting.
Now, time to bid some fond farewells and
walk away from empires crumbling.
Post-war baby-boom to fuel with post-
Victorian half-dressed fumbling.
I see a screen, grey cathode tube in
walnut cabinet, pride of place
in holy family living room. Clipped-
tone announcer, powdered face.
And now to mould public opinion,
sanctify the good and great.
Lordly over his dominion, brash
Television seals our fate.
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After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing.
After these wars, when stocking tops were showing.
When the Co-op gave us daily bread
and penicillin raised the dead
and combine harvesters kept
us fed, after these wars.
We thanked the Yank and thanked the
Lord for sparing us from dark invasion.
Now to liberate, rebuild and balance
Europe's new equation.
Spooky spies in from the cold with
lies and secrets to be sold
to bigger brothers, bigger bombs,
le Carré thrillers to be told.
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We take our place amongst those others
who would punch above their weight.
Divest ourselves of glowing mantle,
mantle of old Britain Great.
Bit part cast in Hollywood, ripe
old thespian, tolerated.
World-weary ham upon the stage,
evergreen but over-rated.
After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing.
After these wars, when stocking tops were showing.
When the Co-op gave us daily bread
and penicillin raised the dead
and combine harvesters kept
us fed, after these wars.
After These Wars
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Lyrics by Ian Anderson
A Change of Horses A Hand Of Thumbs A Raft Of Penguins A Week Of Moments Adrift and Dumbfounded Adrift And Dumfounded Black & White Television Black And White Television Calliandra Shade (the Cappuccino Song) Circular Breathing Cold Dead Reckoning Confessional Cosy Corner Different Germany Doggerland Don't Bother Me With Arithmetic End Game Enter The Uninvited Fly by Night From A Pebble Thrown Give 'Til It Hurts Heavy Metals In For A Pound Jamais Assez Loin Kismet In Suburbia Looking for Eden Lost In Crowds Made in England Man of the World Meliora Sequamur Might Have Beens New Blood, Old Veins Not Ralitsa Vassileva Old Black Cat Old School Song Pebbles Instrumental Per Errationes Ad Astra Photo Shop Pigeon Flying Over Berlin Zoo Play Minstrel Play Power and Spirit Puer Ferox Adventus Rupi's Dance Sanctuary Shunt and Shuffle Swing It Far The Browning of the Green The Engineer The Jasmine Corridor The Little Flower Girl The Pax Britannica The Secret Language of Birds The Secret Language of Birds, Pt. 2 The Turnpike Inn Thick as a Brick Toad in the Hole Trains Tripudium Ad Bellum Two Short Planks Upper Sixth Loan Shark User-Friendly Walk into Light What-Ifs, Maybes And Might-Have-Beens Wootton Bassett Town
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