Poeme Electronique - The Echoes Fade The echo of each step I take shouts back at me Rebounding off the splattered walls and my ears bleed
The distant echoes ring as though not far away A hollow town an empty life and who's to pay?
Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade
Our buildings vast and high Concrete jungles in the sky And kids are stranded on the corners Dressed to kill in uniforms
Threatened by the danger of a falling brick Built to breed our problems Then the echoes fade and time stands still
Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade
The powers fallen in public hands Official secrets burnt in sand And riots fulfill this bloody land The blame shall fall on no mans head
A champagne glass in the ghettos grasp Committed to survive this ritual task Revolution, sham, scream, paranoid, anarchy pathetic dreams
The echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade
Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade
Sad wives await for pleasant days to fill their bitter empty wombs A mound of browning leaves entwined With guns and bullets on the blown up paths
A mound of empty wrappers entwined with bloodied tissues And piles of shattered glass whose war was it anyway?
Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade