White City

[Verse 1]

Keith was the sole inhabitant

Keith was the sole inhabitant

Keith woke beside the fountain

From his dreams of China mountains

Far from the chatter of these autobanks

That keep chucking up money

It turned into the kind of joke

That Keith feels isn't that funny

[Chorus]

The White City

The White City

[Verse 2]

Keith talked in alphanumerals

Keith talked in alphanumerals

Keith built a drug cathedral

Shape of an octahedron

Where he could hide from young Orwellians

Who would trample their brothers

A thin white powder film on everything

But soot is the colour

[Chorus]

Of the White City

White City

The White City

[Bridge]

So, are you happy

With this vision you've created?

Should have known you'd never rest

Till we're all incinerated

And you know you are the best

[Interlude: Robyn Hitchcock]

"Now, old girl was covered in flowers

It's a shame 'cause there wasn't any room in her head

I climbed through a crack in the sky!

He screamed like this:

(scream)"

[Chorus]

The White, The White City

White City

[Outro: Robyn Hitchcock]

"Where was I? Bedfordshire, that's a lousy place, it's on the A45, you go around and it's absolutely flat, and I can't see any- any enthusiasm for that sort of thing at all

My idea, when we started out was to have a, you know, a rising up and falling, kind of undulating, ovulating ground which you don't get so much nowadays, everything seems to be sort of piecemeal and staggered, which, I don't think is really very exciting, do you?

Ah, you're not there either"