So much silence 
Stretching above me 
Around me too 
Has it deafened me? 
Has it closed my ears? 
Has the silence itself 
Brought about this rapture? 
Between silence and sound 
Between the cry and the cull 
If man raises one voice 
I'll raise two then 
One for loss 
One for losing 
One for death 
And one for birth 

I may hang bloodytorn 
On this tree of moss 
Though my grimace 
Cuts my grin 
I'll rise triumphant 
I'll rise triumphing 
You won't catch me 
I fly unseen 
Through the wind of the worlds 
Missiles cut space 
Spearing the starlight 
Masking the moon 
Wide of the march 

Give me two reasons to stay here 
Lostlight lostlove 
Smudge the tracks 
And smother the traces 
Of the fires of your fear 

Near the 
Under the 
Beside the 
Beyond the flowers 
Then further still 
The children lie 
In silent space 
The wind shivers through 
Their cornburnt hair 

Silence immaculate 
If they move 
From silence to sound 
Will the world shudder 
Will my heart stop 
In a cave 
In her maze 
The spring slides 
Through my sadness 
And my winter 

(The stars have now frozen into space) 
(The stars have molten into space) 

The children wait 
Flowers around 
Burnish their hair 
With brazen gold 
And heartred rose 
If I move 
Then I shall stop 
(How have the sightless fallen) 
I'll take a knife to your heart 
I'll take a knife to your... 
I'll take a knife to your... 
(And London Bridge no longer remains; 
Christ's face refracted through 
The sky then cuts up into 
Different shapes...)