Out there on a doomed estate

A house is burning down

Another island in a wasteland

Another blackspot in the town

In a homeland for the homeless

Live the scroungers of the land

Stealing anything of value

For a little 'Cash in hand'

Out there by the petrol station

Someone's stalking with a gun

Head full of jagged images

Somebody's crazy mixed up son

Out there someone gives the order

Shoot to kill the little swine

We've got to have some law and order

In this land of iniquity and crime

And we tried to build Jerusalem

Upon this island shore

But it seems that we've forgotten what it's for

Meanwhile in the city

A jewelled finger clicks

Another zero in a total

A quick financial fix

Meanwhile at the scrapyard

Another supplementary wage

Another monument to money

Another symptom of the age

And as they close another factory

And reposses another home

As they cut another budget

Another splinter off the bone

As they waste another billion

Propping up a lost empire

There are clouds on the horizon

And the future's in the fire

And what could have been Jerusalem

Is rotten to the core

Is it Dark Satanic Mills for evermore?

And did those feet in Ancient time

Walk on England's mountains green

And the Holy Lamb was sacrificed

On every foreign field

Was it all a vain delusion

Built on centuries of war

Now all around's confusion

And the beggar's at your door

And they try to say Jerusalem's

Forever passed away

But tomorrow always brings another day

Bring back the voice of burning gold

Stifle the Silver Tongues with fire

We'll join our hands across the world

To reclaim what we most desire

We shall not cease from mental strife

For Unity is our demand

And bound together we will rise

To make this Earth a promised land