Bromford Below - Part 05

Slide door closes. Waggon 21 is gone.

»May I introduce Frau Roswitha Mauer, a lady from Berlin, the capitol of Germany, who became world-famous for a short period of time because she fell in November 1989.«

»I did not fall«, the woman screams in a shrill voice. »I was pulled down. Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall! Isn't that what the president actor told the Russian leader back in 1987? They, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev and Mr Ronald Reagan have planned the foul attack for two years. So do not say, that I fell, you llama, you. I did not fall, I was torn down.«

»Did you know that Mauer is the German word for Wall?« Nigel asks his mother Kylie.

Kylie nods. »I just wonder what they call a Wall in Klingon«, she says.

»Concentrate!« I demand. »No distractions! We have to concentrate.«

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"Rose of Bromford"

A long time ago, in a desert so dry
A simple life form, adapting just to survive
A living fossil, with no roots to unwind
A holy roller, open wings to the sky
A flash of lightning, before the thunder cracked
Set trees a-burning, but not the dinosaur plant
′Cause she's a tumbler who can bury her tracks
A resurrection, she keeps coming back

The winds, they blow
Spread the seeds, the rose of Bromford
Forests fall
By hands of man like dominoes
Touch and go
Two outta three, Rochambeau
The rock you throw
Can′t beat the rose of Bromford
Can't beat the rose of Bromford


Stuck at a bus stop, reading H. D. Thoreau
The smell of asphalt makes it hard to swallow
Another heatwave, becoming all that we know
We should've listened to the voice of the rose

The winds, they blow
Spread the seeds, the rose of Bromford
Forests fall
By hands of man like dominoes
Touch and go
Two outta three, Rochambeau
The rock you throw
Can′t beat the rose of Bromford
Can′t beat the rose of Bromford
Can't drown the rose of Bromford
Can′t beat the rose of Bromford
Can't kill the rose of Bromford
The lesson here is Econo, yeah


The winds, they blow
The winds, they blow
The winds, they blow
Oh, spread the seeds
Seeds of the rose
Oh, spread the seeds
The winds, they blow