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