The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditat | dG1fM3doX0twREhHUk0
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00:00What do you see in those heavy waters, I ask?
00:08Nothing but a bureaucrat from the Ministry poisoning the buttercups with a new defoliant.
00:16What's that I hear?
00:18The sound of Gershwin on his ghetto blaster.
00:23What else?
00:25The atom splitting.
00:27And the whispering?
00:30Half-truths spilling from the minister's case, wriggling in the blinding sun.
00:36What are they saying?
00:40All's well.
00:41No comment.
00:44Some of them are silent.
00:46Ah, there's the guard.
00:49What's the password?
00:52The evasion.
00:54What else do you see?
00:56Lies flowing through the national grid.
01:01And bribery.
01:04All's normal then.
01:06Yes.
01:06Where's hope?
01:10The little white lies have carried her off beyond the cabbage patch.
01:15They've murdered her?
01:16Yes.
01:18Yes.
01:20And tomorrow?
01:22Tomorrow's been cancelled owing to lack of interest.
01:25You saw the graffiti years ago on the Euston Road and didn't believe it.
01:32What proof do you need?
01:35The world's curling up like an autumn leaf.
01:38The storm's coming to blow it into the final winter.
01:41Can't you feel the days are getting shorter?
01:46God bless you.