A three track CD single.
Timebomb
(Chorus 1)
Stop now, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Stop now, what that sound?
(Repeat chorus 1)
(Chorus 2)
I am a timebomb
A ticking ticking ticking timebomb
I am a timebomb
A ticking ticking ticking timebomb
Unattended on the railway station
In the litter at the dancehalls
Sitting pretty near the fast-food counter
In the backseat of a Vauxhall
(Repeat chorus 2)
(Repeat chorus 1)
(Repeat chorus 2)
Hear the ticking of your heartbeat beating
Hear the breaking of their promises
Hear the smashing of your expectations
Hear the shattering of half-rhymes
(Repeat chorus 2)
(Repeat chorus 1)
You don't tell time--time tells you
And all the timebombs
They're all dancing to the same song
In a world full of no-ones
I am a someone
Timebomb, timebomb, timebomb, timebomb
(Repeat chorus 1)
London bridge is falling down
Techno Timebomb
The World Turned Upside Down
In sixteen forty-nine to St. George's Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will
They defied the landlords, they defied the laws
They were the dispossesed reclaiming what was theirs
'We come in peace,' they said, 'to dig and sow'
'We come to work the land in common and to make the wasteground grow'
'This Earth divided, we will make whole'
'So it can be a common treasury for all'
'The sin of property we do disdain'
'No one has any right to buy or sell the earth for private gain'
'By theft and murder they took the land'
'Now everywhere the walls spring up at their command'
'They make the laws to chain us well'
'The clergy dazzle us with heaven or they damn us into hell'
'We will not worship the god the serve'
'The god of greed who feeds the rich whilst pepole starve'
'We work, we eat together, we take up swords'
'We will not bow to the masters or pay rent to the lords'
'We are free people though we are poor'
You Diggers all stand up for glory, stand up now
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