Jerusalem Revisited

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Out there on a doomed estate A house is burning down Another island in a wasteland Another black spot in the town In a homeland for the homeless Live the scroungers of the land Stealing anything of value For a little 'Cash in hand' Out there by the petrol station Someone's stalking with a gun Head full of jagged images Somebody's crazy mixed up son Out there someone gives the order Shoot to kill the little swine We've got to have some law and order In this land of iniquity and crime And we tried to build Jerusalem Upon this island shore But it seems that we've forgotten what it's for Meanwhile in the city A jeweled finger clicks Another zero in a total A quick financial fix Meanwhile at the scrapyard Another supplementary wage Another monument to money Another symptom of the age And as they close another factory And repossess another home As they cut another budget Another splinter off the bone As they waste another billion Propping up a lost empire There are clouds on the horizon And the future's in the fire And what could have been Jerusalem Is rotten to the core Is it Dark Satanic Mills for evermore? And did those feet in Ancient time Walk on England's mountains green And the Holy Lamb was sacrificed On every foreign field Was it all a vain delusion Built on centuries of war Now all around's confusion And the beggar's at your door And they try to say Jerusalem's Forever passed away But tomorrow always brings another day Bring back the voice of burning gold Stifle the Silver Tongues with fire We'll join our hands across the world To reclaim what we most desire We shall not cease from mental strife For Unity is our demand And bound together we will rise To make this Earth a promised land