Living On A Marble - Jim Capaldi

1984 might be a good year

But it won’t be so good for you and me

They’ve already got us surrounded

There’s nothin' but disharmony

You don’t realize they got you categorized

So subtle it can’t be detected

They got a chain around your brain and you might as well be lame

It’s too late you’re already infected, ha

Universal love can be a good thing

If everybody stays on their own soil

It’s when everybody tries to get together

That’s when the blood begins to boil

Birds of a feather will always flock together

No matter what the situation

But when they tried to build the Tower of Babel

It turned out to be God’s damnation

It turned out to be God’s damnation

It turned out to be God’s damnation, hey

Though a man has walked in space

Sent a rocket up to the moon

We’re still no nearer to the stars

In fact we’re running out of room

Destruction is a black mushroom

(Mushroom)

Growing out of politician’s hands

(Oh yeah, yeah)

This government speaks about freedom

(Freedom)

But they bring nothing but destruction to the land

(Ow)

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

(Yeah)

We need decentralization

(What's that supposed to mean?)

Cut down the power and you’ll cut down the size

(That's right)

That’s our only salvation, whoa

Though a man has walked in space

Sent a rocket up to the moon

We’re still no nearer to the stars

In fact we’re running out of room

We’re living on a marble, we’re living on a marble

There go your feet, there go your knees

There go your hips, there go your waist

There go your elbows, your shoulders

There goes your heartbeat