Letra de The Last of England
Billy came home from the war To Appledore, drifting in the carpark of The second church to be sold since spring And in his redlining is a wing A feather to the throttle, God The absent father who stopped callingI got bored to madness that June Spitting at the sun Hollowing the moonAnd then we were the last of England Rotten to the core When came a fireblight, hallelujah Ripped us shore to shoreAnd what we lost that year Came clear in the emigration of Whose conscription Not called out in the sound mirror But I was cruising, Gawain in the mist There as we kissed Up against the Pendle Hill oak The green king Deep in doggerland wokeI got born into this sadness Just like you Cried the white horse of the sun To the inverted moonAnd there we were, the last of England Rotten to the core When came a fireblight, Hallelujah Ripped us shore to shoreAnd by Mabon Were you dancing the broom? By the light of the burning pier Or were you gone?To the last Rotten to the core