Brave New World - Jeff Wayne

We're gonna build

A whole new world for ourselves

Look they clap eyes on us

And we're dead right

So we gotta make a new life

Where they'll never find us

You know where Underground

You should see it down there

Hundreds of miles of drains sweet

And clean now after the rain

Dark quiet safe

We can build houses and everything

Start again from scratch

And what's so bad

About living underground eh

It's not been so great living up here

If you want my opinion

Take a look around you

At the world we've come to know

Does it seem to be much more

Than a crazy circus show

But maybe from the madness

Something beautiful will grow

In a brave new world

With just a handful of men

We'll start we'll start all over again

All over again all over again

All over again

We'll build shops

And hospitals and barracks

Right under their noses

Right under their feet

Everything we need

Banks prisons and schools

We'll send scouting parties

To collect books and stuff

And men like you'll teach the kids

Not poems and rubbish science

So we can get everything working

We'll build villages and towns and

We'll play each other at cricket

Listen maybe one day we'll capture

A Fighting Machine eh

Learn how to make 'em ourselves

And then wallop

Our turn to do some wiping out

Whoosh with our Heat Ray whoosh

And them running and dying

Beaten at their own game

Man on top again

Now our domination

Of the Earth is fading fast

And out of the confusion

The chance has come at last

To build a better future

From the ashes of the past

In a brave new world

With just a handful of men

We'll start all over again

Look man is born in freedom

But he soon becomes a slave

In cages of convention

From the cradle to the grave

The weak fall by the wayside

But the strong will be saved

In a brave new world

With just a handful of men

We'll start all over again

I'm not trying to tell you what to be

Oh no oh no not me

But if mankind is to survive

The people left alive

They're gonna have

To build this world anew

And it's going to have

To start with me and you yes

I'm not trying to tell you what to be

Oh no oh no not me

But if mankind is to survive

The people left alive

They're gonna have

To build this world anew

Yes and we will have

To be the chosen few

Just think of all the poverty

The hatred and the lies

And imagine the destruction

Of all that you despise

Slowly from the ashes

The phoenix will arise

In a brave new world

With just a handful of men

We'll start all over again

Take a look around you

At the world you've loved so well

And bid the aging empire

Of man a last farewell

It may not sound like Heaven

But at least it isn't Hell

It's a brave new world

With just a handful of men

We'll start we'll start all over again

All over again all over again

All over again

I've got a plan can't you just see it

Civilization starting all over again

A second chance

We'll even build a railway

And tunnel to the coast

Go there for our holidays

Nothing can stop men like us

I've made a start already

Come on down here and have a look

In the cellar was a tunnel

Scarcely ten yards long

That had taken him a week to dig

I could have dug that much in a day

And I suddenly had my first inkling

Of the gulf between his dreams

And his powers

It's doing the working and the thinking

That wears a feller out

I'm ready for a bit of a rest

How about a drink eh

Nothing but champagne

Now I'm the boss

We drank and then he insisted

Upon playing cards

With our species

On the edge of extermination

With no prospect but a horrible death

We actually played games

Later he talked more of his plan

But I saw flames flashing

In the deep blue night

Red Weed glowing

Tripod figures moving distantly

And I put down my champagne glass

I felt like a traitor to my kind

And I knew I must leave

This strange dreamer

Take a look around you

At the world we've come to know

Does it seem to be much more

Than a crazy circus show

But maybe from the madness

Something beautiful will grow