Jeff Wayne, Richard Burton, David Essex - Brave New World lyrics

Halt! Who goes there?

Er - a friend

Be on your way this is my territory

Your territory? What do you mean?

Wait a minute - it's you!
The man from Maybury Hill!

Good heavens! The Artilleryman! I
Thought you surely burned!

I thought you surely drowned!

Have you seen any Martians?

Everywhere we're done for all right

We can't just give up!

Course we can't it's now we've got to
Start fighting - but not against
Them 'cos we can't win now we've
Got to fight for survival
And I reckon we can make it i've got a plan

We're gonna build a whole new
World for ourselves look
They clap eyes on us and we're dead, right?
So we gotta 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's so bad about
Living underground eh? It's
Not been so great living up here
If you want my opinion!

Take a look around you at the
World we've come to know
Does it 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 handful of men we'll start-
We'll start all over again! All over again!
All over again! All over again!

We'll build shops and hospitals
And barracks right under
Their noses - right under their feet!
Everything we need - banks
Prisons and schools we'll
Send scouting parties to collect
Books and stuff
And men like you'll teach the kids
Not poems and rubbish - science
So we can get everything working
We'll build villages and towns and and
We'll play each other at cricket!
Listen, maybe one day we'll
Capture a fighting machine
Eh? Learn how to make 'em
Ourselves and then wallop!
Our turn to do some wiping out! Whoosh
With our Heat Ray - Whoosh!
And them running and dying
Beaten at their own game man on top again!

Now our domination of the
Earth is fading fast
And out of the confusion the
Chance has come at last
To build a better future from
The ashes of the past in a brave new world

Give me a handful of men
We'll start all over again

Look - Man is born in freedom
But he soon becomes a slave
In cages of convention from the
Cradle to the grave
The weak fall by the wayside but
The strong will be saved
In a brave new world

With just a handful of men
We'll start all over again

I'm not trying to tell you what to be
Oh no, oh no, not me
But if mankind is to survive
The people left alive
They're gonna have to build this world anew!
And it's going to have to
Start with me and you yes!

Instrumental (6: 08 - 6: 55)

I'm not trying to tell you what to be
Oh no, oh no, not me
But if mankind is to survive
The people left alive
They're gonna have to build this world anew
Yes, and we will have to be the chosen few!

Just think of all the poverty
The hatred and the lies!
And imagine the destruction of
All that you despise
Slowly from the ashes the phoenix will arise
In a brave new world

With just a handful of men
We'll start all over again

Instrumental (7: 43 - 8: 36)

Take a look around you at the
World you've loved so well
And bid the ageing empire of
Man a last farewell
It may not sound like Heaven but
At least it isn't Hell
It's a brave new world

With just a handful of men we'll start-
We'll start all over again! All over again!
All over again! All over again!

I've got a plan! Can't you just see it?
Civilization starting all
Over again - a second chance
We'll 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 have a look

In the cellar 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 the
Gulf between his dreams and his powers

It's doing the workin' and the thinkin' that
Wears a feller out i'm ready for
A bit of a rest how about
A drink eh? 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 - and I put
Down my champagne glass i felt a
Traitor to my kind and I knew
I must leave this strange dreamer

Take a look around you at the
World we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more
Than a crazy circus show
Maybe from the madness something
Beautiful will grow