Thank God For The Rain - Graham Coxon

Saw the news in the afternoon

'Nother war will be coming soon

Man ripped up like a piece of paper

With his wife looking on and no one to help her

Hammill says we’re still in the dark ages

With people’s greed and hating rages

The world don’t learn so the world will burn

The world will burn 'cause the world won’t learn

The world don’t learn so the world will burn

The world will burn 'cause the world won’t learn

Looks like I’m gonna build my shelter again

Such a messed up world we’re living in today

Thank God for the rain, maybe it’ll wash that scum away

Streets ain’t safe in this town no more

A girl get hassled at her front door

Violence rising out of hand

Can’t bring the kids up in this land

Getting mugged on your way home

By kids with masks and knifes they own

How long will it be till they got a gun

And hoot you down just like a dog for fun

Looks like I’m gonna build my shelter again

Such a messed up world we’re living in today

Thank God for the rain, maybe it’ll wash that scum away

Thought my sensitivity would be smashed

By some inner city wisdom trash

Instead my own phobia centricity

Is growing out of every bit of me

I like my home, I don’t want to move

But maybe I’ll be forced soon

To lock the doors and board up the windows

Lock the doors and board up the windows

Lock the doors and board up the windows

Lock the doors and board up the windows

Looks like I’m gonna build my shelter again

Such a messed up world we’re living in today

Thank God for the rain, maybe it’ll wash that scum away

People die and nature replaces

You see the lives in all the faces

Of so-called lunatics and basket cases

Who’d hang themselves with their shoe laces

They have no place in the rat race

As a society which just misplaces

Puts more importance on money not faces

And have its sleeves filled with all the aces

Looks like I’m gonna build my shelter again

Such a messed up world we’re living in today

Thank God for the rain, maybe it’ll wash that scum away