After Everything Now This

The Church After Everything Now This Lyrics
1.Radiance

Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper

When a cloudy morning rain touched our little town
Three small sisters and a friend walking in the fields
A strange light in the sky blotting out the sun
Whatever happens next changes all our lives

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said our lady has a message for mankind
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the Virgin's radiance

And the icons in the church, crying tears of blood
The water in the wells curing all who drank
Pilgrim lunatics arrive in a ragged stream

In the fields around the village sprang up tents
People from the outside world want more evidence
Four tired children questioned day and night
All they can remember is Her blinding light

So the circus drifts away and the noise dies down
Life goes on as before all the people came
And the children never say what her message was

And the children ran home sobbing and half blind
Said, 'Our lady has a message for mankind'
Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense
Dazzled by the Virgin in her radiance

People from the outside world want more evidence
People from the outside world want more evidence
People from the outside world want more evidence


2.Numbers

Lyricist:Steve John Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Guy Gerard Powles,
Martin H Willson-piper

Oh yeah, your one and only life
Ripped from the earth with these bare hands
You dare, question the ritual, despite continual
Threats of gonna get you all

1 law for the officers, 1 for the gentlemen
2 bad you, 3 know, what it's 4
5 for this awful dive, 6 for the genetics
7 for the lucky pricks, who went into heaven

Nightmare, we ride for miles and miles
Following the howling of our prey
Out there, reload our yellow rigs
Scrambling for shelter, dig a void, decay

1 for the flaming sun, 2 for the location
3 for the martyrs and the stars
4 for the wind and sand, 5 so you understand
6 for the slips 'twixt the cup and the lips

1 for the cockpit blues, 2 for the Panzer crews
3 for the vast and molten sky
4 for the failed talks, 5 for the knives and forks
6 for forbidden kicks, all the yobbos in the sticks

1 law for the officers, 1 for the gentlemen
2 bad you, 3 know, what it's 4
5 for this awful dive, 6 for the genetics
7 for the lucky pricks, who went into heaven

1 for the flaming sun, 2 for the location
3 for the martyrs and the stars
4 for the wind and sand, 5 so you understand
6 for the slips 'twixt the cup and the lips, come on

1 for the cockpit blues, 2 for the Panzer crews
3 for the vast and molten sky
4 for the failed talks, 5 for the knives and forks
6 for forbidden kicks, all the yobbos in the sticks, 10

10011, zeros
Makeaveete, system overload
The ovual engine was not able to process
All the required data in tone, tone, tone, tone


3.Reprieve

Lyricist:Steven Kilby, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Marty Wilson-piper

When you're gone
And no more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
I couldn't see a way out
You show me I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
Watch you sleep
Peaceful like a Buddha
Yeah, you're miles deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
When you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down
We'll live awhile in a while

When you're gone
No more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
Couldn't see a way that I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
Watch you sleep
Peaceful like a Buddha
You're so deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
When you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down a little while
Reprieve is gonna come down a little while

When you're gone
No more tracks for me to run on
When you're gone
I couldn't see a way out
You show me I was wrong

When you sleep
You never know the vigil I keep
To watch you sleep
Peaceful like a Buddha
You're miles deep

When you smile
It makes the whole damn thing worthwhile
'Cause when you smile
Reprieve is gonna come down
We'll live the while


4.Undo

God it's so high, God it's so high
Why don't I fly, why don't I fly
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
Elegant god, elegant sigh
Why don't you try, little advice
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
Just you and I, just you and I
Sweeter than pie, down in Bondi
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye

Summer seaside town in motion
Holiday girl down by the ocean
Evenings are warm, just before the storm
You don't understand that it's all in your hands
And the graphs and the charts are pulling us further apart

Crashing in our field, wasting our time
And I don't care a bit of a fiddle-de-dee
What the phantom power is doing to me
It's tracking in the black, such audacity
We're not going back and that's that and that's all it can be
Lionized cats with their mirrors intact
Clawing our sides, tearing our back
I never took a potshot at a wounded beast
But I guess you never really met the deceased
I told all your enemies to come to the feast
If it comes to the crunch we'll do lunch with the bunch from the
east

Cultures holding at the rockets controls
Slippery and when ready like this great country scrolls
If you're fucking with your enemies, you're killing your friends
This is where your reign of terror/pleasure ends
I know you'll understand that's a message he sends
But it's bad and it's sad and it's mad and I've had to give a
dent