Heat

We're on our way to the way to the core

The wind has gone, the sun beats down

We arrived where we've departed long before

On your face the lipstick streams

Without shelter under trees

Loss of home, loss of heart

The feel too numb

Wonder when,

Wonder when the rain will come

This is the time of tension

It's the smile of defeat

It's a touch of madness

It's the heat

This is the time of tension between dying and birth

While blood is sowing the sandy earth

This is the time of tension where you starve while you eat

It's the time of the heat

It's the heat

And neither fear nor courage nor signs of warm rain

Then the sawdust tracks all run where

Towers fall and shout again

Will the rain come?

A last flower: falling towers, falling towers

Jerusalem, athens,

Alexandria, london, vienna

Unreal

Unreal

This is the time of tension

It's the smile of defeat

It's a touch of madness

It's the heat

'and neither fear nor courage'

'and neither fear nor courage'

It's the heat

'this is the time of tension'

'this is the time of tension'

It's the heat