Champion

In the heat of the river

In the heat of the morning sun

I saw Rose

Out on the river

Staring down the city guns

She said

I am the one

I am the champion

Protector

Leader

Defender

Optimum champion

She said

I am the one

I am the only one

In the aftermath of atomic fire

I'll be your champion

Distinctly unhumble they said

That's what they called her then

But everything she touched

Seemed to turn out like magic then

And the walls

The walls of the city

They fell down like magic then

And the walls

The walls of my heart

They fell apart like magic then

She was the one

She was the number one

In this age of madness

This age of the gun

Rose was the champion

Hot war who could ask for more

Six minutes on a cold winter morning

Cold war ain't here no more

Rose, Rose, take me home

Rose

Lightning Rose

Carry me home

Take me home

Home home home

Nanananananananana

Nanananananananana

There is no more order

Nanananananananana (continues in the background until **)

And there is no more Yale

There is no more New York

No more Central Park

No more Walter Cronkite

Duran Duran

No more Bruce Springsteen (he bought it)

No more Ray Charles

Or MTV

Or RCA Victor

And Yale is a sheet of radio-active glass thirty miles across

No more Jodie Foster

And there is no more California

No more Moscow, or Mecca, no Tel Aviv, or Riyadh or Peking or Cuba no London

No Washington DC

Kansas is left

They didn't touch Cleveland!

And there are no more bombs

They used them all!

Not many Russians left

And there no more assholes

There'll always be assholes

Why couldn't we stop it then, what did we do so wrong

And it's such a bloody drag to have to rebuild civilization all over again

**

Nananananana nananana

Nananananana nananana

There is no more order

But there is Rose

And Rose is your heart

And Rose is love

And Rose is spirit

And Faith and light

Rose is Friday night

And we all have Rose

If we start right now

And if we sing long enough

And if we sing loudly enough

And if we sing strong enough

We can make a difference

We can make a difference

Yeah yeah yeah, she said

I'll be the one

I'll be the only one