Lay Of The Land Lyrics - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall - Fall

Lay 

Lay 

Lay 

Armageddon 

This beautiful tree 

Boo hoo 

Give up living 

Ample 

Eye 

They give in 

On The Buses, up the stair 

By the television 

Pretend to learn 

Where's the lay of the land 

My son 

Where's the lay of the land 

My son 

What's the lie of the land 

My son 

The last Briton on the street 

He's in a radio fuzz 

He's dead and beat 

No longer reflects our daft fate 

We'll leave this city 

Hit a quick coach, take the town in Surrey 

There's no-one here but crooks and death 

Kerb-crawlers,of the worst order 

Where's the lay of the land 

My son 

What's the lie of the land 

My son 

Eldritch house 

With green moss 

Sound of ordinary on the waves 

Tiles drip from its roof 

Home secretary has a weird look 

Where's the lay of the land 

My son 

What's the lie of the land 

My son 

The good Book of John 

Surrounds the son 

Sound of ordinary on the waves 

Italic scribble on horizon 

When the height of culture is a bad stew 

Space bores, government disorder 

Indian clerk, low-calorie drink 

Where's the lay of the land 

Where children circle in cycles 

Giving jokes ad lib 

By bearded writers 

Who defected to 

Higher realms 

Advertising realms 

Where's the lay of the land 

My son 

What's the lie of the land 

My son 

(People laughing..people fighting..people watching) 

Between the ticker and the mind lies an air-block of wind