Brave New World
Jeff Wayne Featuring Liam Neeson and Ricky Wilson
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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...
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 ageing 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 workin' and the thinkin' 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 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
Bืื maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow