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Liverpool Street Blues

David F Williams, PhD, DSc, FREng, FLSW
Author, Scientist & Consultant

The heads of state of those countries bidding for the Summer Olympics of 2012 met in Singapore to hear the committee’s decision. Among them was the Prime Minister of the UK, intent on pressing the London case. No sooner had he returned to that city, than terrorists’ actions shattered euphoria and many lives. (With grateful acknowledgement to the Beatles for some of their lines, which I have adapted.)

Liverpool Street Blues

The man, center stage
Shaken but visibly stirred
Is a pale shadow of yesterday
Yesterday

All his troubles seemed so far away.

A victory of Trafalgar proportions
Away in the Far East, with Olympics secured,
And now, in somber mood,
With an effete and defeated French emperor
Standing over his shoulder
Wondering what it would be like
To win and lose a city in a day
Just imagine.

Imagine there’s no hell
It’s not easy when you try
Those still interred underground
Go down, down, down
And in the distance emerges the Styx
Only before seen in nightmares
Hades takes over from the Angel
The Cross moves from Kings to the Devil

All those lonely people
Where do they all go now?
A long and winding road
For lonely dying people

Oh, for sunshine on a cloudy day
Please, don’t take our sunshine away

But Tony, don’t carry the world on your shoulder
The yellow rose of Texas wants to hold your hand
Help him if you can and
Take a sad day and make it better

Hey dudes, don’t let us down
Turn on your axis of evil
Bring home your purveyors of shock and awe
Remember those who were wiser than thou
The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred in their bones
It’s now or never for you
As the souls go marching on

Liverpool, England, July 2005

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