1. SPIRIT OF THE AGE

I would have like you
To have been
Deep frozen too
And waiting still
As fresh in your flesh
For my return to earth
But your father refused
To sign the forms
To freeze you
Let's see
You'd bee
About sixty now
And long dead
By the the time i return
To earth
My time held dreams
Were full of you
As you were
When i left:
Still under-age

Your android replica
Is playing up again
It's no joke
When she comes
She moans
Another's name

That's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
It's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
And that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
That is the spirit of the age

I am a clone
I am not alone
Every fibre of my flesh
And bone
Is identical to ther others'
Everything i say
Is in the same tone
As my test-tube brothers'
Voice.
There is no choice
Between us
If you had ever seen us
You'd rejoice
In your uniqueness
And consider every weakness
Something special
Of your own
Being a clone
I have no flaws to identify
Even this doggerel
That pours from my pen
Has just been written by
Another twenty
Telepathic men
It says:
O for the wings
Of any bird
Other than a battery hen.

But that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
That's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
It's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
Adjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
Unjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)


2. DAMNATION ALLEY

I've got the serum
And i'm going to take it
All the way to boston
Oh i've got to get through
The going won't be easy
But i'm going to make it
It's the only thing
That i'm cut out to do
Ride the post-atomic
Radio-active trash
The sky is on fire
From that nuclear flash
Diving through the burning hoop
Of doom
In an 8-wheeled anti-radiation tomb.
Thank you doctor strangelove
For going doolally
And leaving me the heritage
Of damnation alley
Damnation alley-way.

No more arizona now
Phoenix is fried up
Oklahoma city
What a pity it's gone.
Louisianna's wiped out
And the
Mississip's dried up
No more chattanooga
Cherokee,
Lexington.
Ride the post-atomic radio-active trash.
The sky is on fire from that nuclear flash.
Diving through the burning hoop of doom.
In an 8-wheeled anti-radiation tomb.
Thank you doctor strangelove
For going doolally
And leaving me the heritage
Of damnation alley
Damnation alley-way.

Craters coming at me now
Ashes coming at me
Radiation wasteland
I've got my anti radiation machine
Oh thank you doctor strangelove
For giving me ashes and post-atomic dust
And the sky is raining fishes
It's a mutation zoo
I'm going down damnation alley
Well good luck to you......
.........................
Armour-plated angel
Motor pony express
Going down damnation alley
It's one hell of a mess
The sky is raining fishes
It's a mutation zoo
I'm going down damnation alley
Well good luck to you.


3. FABLE OF A FAILED RACE

Our legends tell
We came from a seed
That travelled at
A whirl-wind speed
Till it came to rest
Upon this land
That once was green
Is now all sand;

That buried us
Up to our eyes
And made us watchers
Of the skies:
Till shadow-wings
Came for our sight
And left us to
Conspire with night.


4. QUARK, STRANGENESS AND CHARM

Einstein was not a handsome fellow
Nobody ever called him al
He had a long moustache to pull on
It was yellow
I don't believe he ever had a girl
One thing he missed out in his theory
Of time and space and relativity
Is something that makes it very clear he
Was never gonna score like you and me
He didn't know about

Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark ssenegnarts and charm

I had a dangerous liason
To be found out would have been a disgrace
We had to rendezvous some days on
The corner of an undiscovered place
We got sick of chat chat chatter
And the look upon everybody's face
But all that does not not anti-matter
Now we found ourselves a black hole in space
And we're talking about

Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark enessgnarts and charm
Quark strangeness and charm

Here it comes it goes quark quark
.................................
Quark now
...............;;;;.........?

Copernicus had those renaissance ladies
Crazy about his telescope
And galileo had a name that made his
Reputation higher than his hope
Did none of those astronomers discover
While they were staring out into the dark
That what a lady looks for in her lover
Is charm strangeness and quark

Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangnesss and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark tsrnaegness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm

Here it comes quark quark


5. HASSAN I SHABHA (ASSASSINS OF ALLAH)

Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin
Hashish hashin

Black september
Black september
Black september
Black september
Black september
Black september
Black september

Death unto all infidels in oil.
Guide us o thou genie of the smoke.
Lead us to a thousand and one nights.
In the perfumed gardens of delight.

Petro dollar
Petro dollar
Petro dollar
Petro dollar
Petrol d'allah
Petrol d'allah
Petrol d'allah
(petro dollar)

It is written
In the soul of the desert
It is written
In signs in the stars
It is written
In the sands of the hour-glass
It is written
It is written
In the eye of the falcon
It is written
In the shade of the scorpion
It is written
In the wealth of the sun
It is written
It is written
Man's truth is a mirage
It is written
That death's an oasis
It is written
For all unbelievers
It is written
It is written


6. THE FORGE OF VULCAN

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7. DAYS OF THE UNDERGROUND

In visions of acid
We saw through delusion
And brainbox pollution
We knew we were right
The streets were our oyster
We smoked urban poison
And turned all this noise on
We knew how to fight
We dropped out and tuned in
Spoke secret jargon
And we did not bargain
For what we had found
In the days of the underground

We believed in guevera
We saw that head held up
And our anger welled up
But we kept it cool
No need for machine guns
The system was crumbling
Our leaders were fumbling
While we broke every rule
We saw them on t.v.
They'd blown their cover
And we tried to smother
Their voices with sound
In the days of the underground

What ever happened
To those chromium heroes
Are there none of them
Still left around
Since the days (daze)
Of the underground?

Now we can look back
At the heroes we were then
We made quite a stir then
With our sonic attack
Street fighting dancers
Assassins of silence
With make believe violence
On a hundred watt stack
They offered us contracts
We said we don't need 'em
We'll just take our freedom
And will not be bound
In the days of the underground.

And some of us made it
But not smiling michael
His black motor cycle
Got eaten by rust
And john the bog dreamt that
He slept at the wheel
When he woke it was real
Too late to have sussed
And jeff was a poet
Who wrote with a spray can
On walls saying: hey man
I believe that we have drowned
In the days of the underground.


8. THE IRON DREAM

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