Driving Alone in the City at Night - Demo

Driving alone in the city at night
 I thought I saw you
 Caught in the high branches
 Of a beech tree bowling in the bluster
 Above the big houses of
 Solicitors
 Built at the end of the twentieth century
 Computers were big, everybody was wealthy
 Then the horror of it all flew into my vision
 Like an owl for it's dinner with lethal precision
 And into the dark, you rode on the wind
 Shaking your head, as if to rescind
 Some crucial law of quantum mechanics
 One cannot be here, whilst over there
 So you must remain, my kind brother
 Yes you must remain, my sweet brother
 Until eventually all of our buried skeletons
 Are gently uncovered by smiling Americans
 And all is explained,
 How we came to such unfortunate endings
 By the cracks on our skulls
 And the dull arrows in our graves
 A hedge around us
 Smoke rising from the edge of the pitch flood
 I'm not upright in light of it all
 And flashing blue, the ambulance grew
 For an old local man, my old man knew
 He was found in the morning, under the white land
 A half-pint of Guinness frozen to his hand
 Naked and soulless
 Half-naked and soulless
 Oh Dear
 But you must remain,
 you must remain
 you must remain
 you must remain
 you must remain
 Yes you must remain
 My kind brother
 My sweet brother
 A little while longer than I
 My kind brother