Pandora’s Lullaby Alphaville

So you hugged the globe
Now it's whirling too fast
I've really got no hope to hang on to the past
The train has departed, the toxins have started
To announce that none will last

I cower in the gutter of a world that's not so near
And I listen to their mutters that are spinning through the air
The words unspoken, the promises broken
And the ones who really care

I'm the watcher of the scene
I see our shadows on the screen
And when the subway brakes to preserve some suicidal bee
I stop to breathe for a while
Maybe it was me

This is the world gliding by
Like the driftwood beams
On a lifetime's stream
The instant fundamental sky for Pandora's Lullaby

I see distorted faces coined like gold
And in their wrinkles programs that commercial gurus told
A watermark against a spark
Umbrellas that they hold