Ruins Of The Realm

(album: Just Us Kids - 2008)

Standing in the middle of a Roman street
Marble dust all over my feet
Bearded masses at the gates
Dancing in the ruins while it's not too late

Driving a Rolls through old Bombay
Rickshaw driver's in my way
Well he'd better move over and he'd better move fast
Dancing in the ruins of a golden past
Dancing in the ruins of the Raj
Queen and country's noble cause

Standing on banks of the river Seine
I ain't got tuppence to my name
Stand my ground and I cast my net
Dancing in the ruins where the sun don't set
Dancing in the ruins of the Crown
Enfield rifles keeping us down

I got a thirty-ought-six and a premium load
In a shotgun shack on a two lane road
Smack in the middle of the bible belt
Dancing in the ruins all by myself

We got the National Guard with the bayonets
We got the ten commandments on the State House steps
We shalt not steal and we shalt not kill
Dancing in the ruins of our own free will
Dancing in the ruins of the South
Confederate flag taped over my mouth

We thank thee lord for all we got
While the multi-nationals call the shots
So scrape them hides and clean that slate
Dancing in the ruins of the nation-state

We'll fight 'em in the land, we'll fight 'em in the air
Little cowboy says we got to fight 'em over there
You ain't seen nothing like it since Saigon fell
Dancing in the ruins 'cause we might as well
Dancing in the ruins of the realm
A fool and a mad man at the helm
Dancing in the ruins of the Reich
Down in the bunker on a hunger strike