The road to the kingdom

[kenno]

War is an expression of politics
I don't know about dirty tricks
I know it could all blow us to
kingdom come

Following a diplomatic car
I don't know if we'll get that far
I hope you can negotiate the turn
How's the kingdom run.

Driving down Adelaide
looking for the bed I made
My pounding head wants me
To make for kingdom come

Cafe Italia to the left
immigrants living in the cleft
Keeping their backs to the news and sea
They are working for this kingdom come

property values going down
public housing all around
Strippers sleeping all afternoon
this is the paupers' kingdom come

i made it to the esplanade
an old man gives me the nod
I'll soon be at the sea of this
kingdom come

Reaching the end of this land
my feet sinking in the sand
a blue horizon and stale old boats
for the kingdom come

politics by other means
we have to get out of that scene
What doesn't take us out
takes us down