In the silence of next door    Lives a man fought in the war    Wary eyes through parted curtains    Seems Ok but can't be certain       Uneasy feeling uninformed, or    Out of touch it's, well, abnormal    Maybe chat with that chap later    Meanwhile need to read the paper    Sex and fashion, competitions    Popstars praising politicians    Amusement park for our derision    So assured of our position -    None of it to do with us       And now the turning of the page    Produces yet another bomb    Distorded children's faces freeze    Where's the next one coming from?       Isolated incidents    Everyday events       Bombs and guns in daily doses    Fashion-nation with psychosis    Public trials of private loners    Staring blank into the cameras    Feeds a need for reassurance    Civilisation's working for us    Takes a bomb to show the crack, and    All we see is more distraction       Headlines - violence, war and sex    Disintegration nothing left    Of civilisation - here's the news    It's what we get accustumed to    Unaware of getting used to    Being scared of other people       If the world is going crazy    Staying in could be essential    Staying in could be essential    Staying in could be essential    Staying in could be essential       (Where've I seen that face before?    Someone new moved in next door    Next in the line of next door neighbours    Maybe get to meet him later)