We should have never let him go
The firefly in the bottle that we found in the hedgerow
That ran west to east past cherry trees
Humming wires and buzzing bees
That danced between the red, the blue, the green
And the colours in between
The air fair crackled round our ears
Poets, scholars, vagabonds full of big ideas
And you had always got a plan
Of all of us the better man to get us there and bring us back in style
And we could see for miles
Now they've started putting badges on the Israelites
And funny little aerials on traffic lights
No one's thinking
How they should
Hearts of stone, feet of clay, heads of wood
And i was never one for times gone by
I always faced tomorrow and looked it in the eye
But now what's staring back at me with devil's eyes
It's plain to see right through if you can see the signs
In between the headlines
And a symphony is turning to a requiem
The pushers pushing lies in to the brain stem
These billionaires from Mars are closing all the bars
To build a better world if you believe them
If you believe them
Now they've started putting badges on the Israelites
They've started putting badges on the Israelites
And Babylon is watching via satellite
We should have never let him go
The firefly in the bottle that we found in the hedgerow
