Dance Before the Storm

Lyrics

These are dangerous times we live in I heard a man once say If you're prone to flights of fancy Your dreams can fly away See the sights around you Of breakdown and decay Wrought by the greed for a better life For which you have to pay Well you dance before the storm And don't look back to where you've been The horizon's getting further As the sands of time run thin Well you dance before the storm As the machinery breaks down You watch the sky go black with anger No one makes a sound From Glasgow town to London Down the motorways There's people standing in the rain Looking for any way To take them down to where they're bound It's all part of another way It's called the art of survival In a modern age Well you dance before the storm And don't look back to where you've been The horizon's getting further As the sands of time run thin Well you dance before the storm As the machinery breaks down You watch the sky go black with anger No one makes a sound From Albion Hill to the Old Chain Pier You can hear a person say Spare some change for all me pains The world has gone astray Down the road another flat got burnt Where a friend of mine once stayed So another squat in Brighton Needs to hide another head And if your head spins round, go underground Away from the games they play There's people down there who are trying to care Let each one have their say It's not revolution tactics It's not cause for anarchy Just a natural fight for a natural life Of which the systems are afraid And if it all surrounds you Seems like there's no escape And there's people stood in front of you Saying do it in their way But turn your eyes towards the tides And see how they never change The sands of time will break their minds Just like riding on a wave Well you dance before the storm And don't look back to where you've been The horizon's getting further As the sands of time run thin Well you dance before the storm As the machinery breaks down You watch the sky go black with anger No one makes a sound Well you dance before the storm And don't look back to where you've been The horizon's getting further As the sands of time run thin You dance before the storm As the machinery breaks down You watch the sky go black with anger No one makes a sound