Party Of God (Remastered Version) - Natalie Merchant/Billy Bragg

In a busy street

A man sits down

Oblivious to the traffic sounds

No chaos

No frenzied shrieking crowd

Thank God their silence

Walking heads bent down

Come when they saw us

Called it lethargy

The treadmill turns

There down below their feet

Should I pray

For an end to come

Quickly quickly

Quickly quickly

Or cross the waves

Of an angry sea

Risking risking

And braving braving

The shipwreck and the

Mutiny assailing assailing

In a haunted doorway

And from the light of day

See another life

Fall to ruin in pain

False smiles from

Even children it seems

Landlocked ground

For empty and lost dreams

A league against me

I hear him say

It's not worth half the effort

Or the price you pay

Should I pray

For an end to come

Quickly quickly

Quickly quickly

Or should I raise my

Face to the Heavens above

And tell God dear God

Stop jeering and jeering

As our human frailties

And all our failings

Are we failing

Pound pound on

An endless street

Again and again

The nightmare scene

All strained against

The tightened rope

Not one with a

Lasting lingering hope

There's evidence

Everywhere you see

Put a quarter down

At the newsstand

So that you can read

Should I pray

For an end to come

Quickly quickly

Quickly quickly

Or should I raise my

Face to the clouds above

Entreating entreating

Their mercy some mercy

But as clouds will do

They'll rain down

First gently gently

And sweetly so sweetly

Until they silence me

With a burst of thunder

Thunder and lightning and lightning

And helpless landlocked screaming

I know god must be agreeing

It's the worst part of watching

It's the worst part of watching

It's the worst part of watching

It's the worst part

Landlocked in screaming

God must be agreeing

To be helpless is the worst

Must be the worst part of watching

The worst part of watching