Hyde Park Calling (King William Road, Scene 1)

歌詞

The trees have repossessed their leaves The clouds are all rinsed clean There's smug success Upon the breeze The vines are running green Like ladies in waiting To a fashion queen Behind mascara eyes The eastern suburb mums drift in For coffee cake and lies And as the morning rolls to midday The vain impressions grow The only world they care about Is on King William Road She's got polaroids Of the refugees She shows them all around She tries to make them understand But they don't hear a sound And on the grass strip Outside the factory gate They're queuing up Along the fence Bankers meet their lawyers Making ready their defense And the blinds go down You can hear the sound Of shredding machines down low And if you listen You can hear them grinding from King William Road We can barely see the track We've been squinting in the sun The windshield holds The country out We never quite belonged The past is hard to understand The future's hard to guess Still the wrong things prosper And they blame you for the mess But if you play politely You'll get a medal that you can show To all the other people who've toed the line Down on King William Road It's a conspiracy of silence now And it's whispered on the wind You can bang it on the door and scream But they won't let you back in And in a FM world of heartbreak It's hard to get your message through If only you'd aimed at the sitting ducks And not at the ones that flew They don't like your accent now You're a prisoner of what you know Because you might let their secrets out Down on King William Road They opened up the gates Of government house And let some people in To wander through those gracious rooms And sing "God Save The Queen" And in the still-life garden afternoon The same old deals are going down But it's hard to get the numbers up On the bankrupt side of town And the people who weren't invited They didn't even know So they spent the evening Running up and down King William Road And you can take your imported sports car And drive it real slow And all your friends Will see you there Down on King William Road