Text: Graham Coxon. Thank God For The Rain.

Saw the news in the afternoon
Another 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 don'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
Girl get hassle at her front door
Violence rising out of hand
We can't bring the kids up in this land

Getting mugged on your way home
By youths with masks and knives they own
How long will it be 'til they got a gun?
Shoot 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 to soon
To lock the doors and board up the windows
Lock the doors and board up the windows (x3)

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 of the faces
Of so-called lunatics and basket cases
Who'd hang themselves with their shoe laces

They have no place in the rat races
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