World Of Wars 9 |
Artilleryman:
We are going to build us a whole new World for ourselves.
Look, they clap eyes us and we are dead, right?
So, we got to make a new life where they'll never find us.
You know where ?
Underground!
You should see it down there - hundreds of miles of drains.
Sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe.
We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch.
And what is so bad about living underground eh?
It has not been so great living up here,
if you want my opinion….
Take a look around you at the World we've used to know.
It does not seem to be much more than a crazy circus show.
But maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow.
In a brave new world,
with just a hand full of men.
We will start all over again….
We will build shops, hospitals and barracks
right under there noses right under their feet.
Everything we need - bank's, prisons and schools...
We will send scouting parties to collect books and stuff,
and men like you can teach the kids.
Not poems and rubbish- science!
So we can get everything working.
We will build villages and towns and.... and.....
Listen maybe one day we will capture a fighting machine eh?
Learn how to make them ourselves and then wallop!
Our turn to do some wiping out!
Whoosh with our Heat Ray - Whoosh!
Them running and dying, beaten at their own game.
Man on top again!
Now are domination of the Earth is fading fast
out of the confusion the chance has come at last!
To build a better future from the past…
Look, man is born in freedom but he soon becomes a slave.
I am full of convention from cradle to the grave.
The weak fall by the wayside, but strong will be save…
I'm not trying to tell you what to be!
Oh no, not me!
But if mankind is to survive,
with the people left alive,
they are going to have to build this World anew
and it is going to have to start with me and you
we will have to be the chosen few…
Just think of all the poverty, hatred and the lies.
Imagine the destructions of all that you despise.
Slowly from the ashes the Phoenix will arise….
Take a look around you at the World you have lost so well.
Bid the ageing empire of man a last farewell.
It may no sound like Heaven but at least it is not Hell…..
Can't you just see it?
Civilization starting all over again - a second chance.
We will even build a railway and tunnel to the coast.
Go there for our holidays!
Nothing can stop men like us,
I've made a start already.
Come on down here and look….
In the cellar there was a tunnel, scarcely ten yards long.
That had taken him a week to dig!
I could have dug that much in a day, and I suddenly
had my first inkling of his dreams of power….
-It's doing the working and the thinking that wears a man out.
-I'm ready for a bit of rest.
-How about a drink?
-Nothing but Champagne now I'm the boss…
We drank and then he insisted upon playing cards.
With our species on the edge of extermination,
with no prospect but a horrible death,
we actually played games!!
Later he talked more of his plan,
but I saw flames flashing in the deep blue night.
Red weed glowing, tripod figures moving distantly,
I put down my Champagne glass.
I felt as a traitor to my kind
and I knew I must leave this strange dreamer….
scarcely = knappast
inkling = aning
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