Wise After The Event Lyrics

Wise After The Event lyrics

Four thousand monks in a maelstrom
All crying out for release.
Three
cheers for old Mother Hailsham
She's sticking to her beliefs.
A
hundred ships took to the high seas
intent on sailing the world.
They
might have known that a rainy sky
would scatter swine before pearls.
One by One, the Centaur is breaking its chains
and, after all, we're
blood and flesh and pain.
Cover it up high, cover it up low
Cerebus
stirring,
finally learning,
Lamplighters' torches extinguish
the
flames of our fate.
Six sturdy Bold held the Tiber
Across the stakes
they did swarm.
And in a chance he was leaving
Throughout his watch
he was warming their guards.
I met a man on a spreading kite
who set
his course for the sun.
But when I asked what he'd found up there
he
said he'd just been for fun.
Hour by hour, the Jigsaw is piecing
together
In fear and dread, we wait the final act.
Gathering up high,
gathering up low,
See how the earth quakes
watch as the crust
breaks
beating the air as the hot wind
comes blowing my way.
A
million men marched on Memphis,
to pay respect to their King
but when
they came to Fort Lauderville
they found they all had to sing - So we're
Getting so much wiser, it's so much fun.