The Waterboys - Old England

Man looks up on a yellow sky
And the rain turns to rust in his eye
Rumours of his health are lies
Old england is dying

His clothes are dirty shade of blue
And his ancient shoes worn through
He steals from me and he lies to you
Old england is dying

Still he sings an empires song
And he keeps his navy strong
And he sticks his flag where it ill belongs
Old england is dying

Youre asking what makes me sigh now
What it is makes me shudder so
Well
I just freeze in the wind
And Im numb from the pummeling of the snow
That falls from high in yellow skies
Where the time stained of england flies
Where the homes are warm and the mothers sigh
Where comedians laugh and babies cry
Where criminals are televised politicians fraternize
Journalists are dignified and everyone is civilised
And children stare with heroin eyes
Old england!

Evening has fallen
The swans are singing
The last of sundays bells is ringing
The wind in the trees is sighing
And old england is dying

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[darren1naudi]

My all time favourite of this so much under-rated band. Pity they never arrived to the highest of places they should have well deservedly arrived at. One of the greatest bands of all times

[Player91000]

Thank u so much burberry website for your playist with this song, God save U.K i love you !!!

[ILAN2187]

@steadyy123 i hope so but what about the muslim?

[markmaxcfc]

wicked  nuff said

[woody6039]

It is time to stand up now and not to think about what was and what if ' we think for today and set things wright for the future and or childrens children the united kingdom will be here long after we are dead buried. I am and always will be a british subject and proud of it

[yakacm]

@vikingsfan1128 Yeah your probably right I was just trolling really, I don't actually think the song is about England ending anyway, the title is old england, I think it's more about the class system that exists in this country where the upper classes have everything, and the rest have nothing, apart from drink drugs and TV. All that stuff you say maybe true at the moment but I think that US can't afford to be too complacent, anyway the 2 countries that are dislike the most have 2 B the UK & US

[vikingsfan1128]

@yakacm you have no idea what ur talking about the USA is helping the world go round if USA ended in the morning then who would have the advances in technology and medicine and the US stock market is essential to the recovery of the global recovery so before you comment know ur stuff

[TheNiceguy123456789]

@yakacm first of all i am not broke or any where neare it :-) and i would rather the germans over the english any day of the week ;-) Just came back from Berlin on the 7th sep and what a wonderful people its just Irelans bad luck been next to the devils land and had 800 years of abuse from the shitty English UP THE IRA ;-) apt indeed lol

[steadyy123]

old England will never die ...