GENESIS - Fly on a Windshield lyrics

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The sky is overcast and as rael looks back a dark cloud is descending like a balloon into times square. it rests on the ground and shapes itself into a hard edged flat surfacewhich solidifies

Xtends itself all the way east and west along 47th street and reaching up to the dark sky. as the wall takes up it's tension it becomes a screen showing what had existed in three dimensionson t

Her side just a moment before. the image flickers and then cracks like painted clay and the wall silently moves forwardabsorbing everything in it's path. the unsuspecting new yorkers are appare

Blind to what is going on.

There's something solid forming in the air

And the wall of death is lowered in times square.

No-one seems to care

They carry on as if nothing was there.

Rael starts to run away towards columbus circle. each time he dares to take a lookthe wall has moved another block. at the moment when he thinks he's maintaining his distance from the wallth

D blows hard and cold slowing down his speed. the wind increasesdries the wet street and picks up the dust off the surfacethrowing it into rael's face. more and more dirt is blown up and it

S to settle on rael's skin and clothesmaking a solid layered coat that brings him gradually to a terrified stillness. a sitting duck.

The wind is blowing harder now

Blowing dust into my eyes.

The dust settles on my skin

Making a crust I cannot move in

And I'm hovering like a flywaiting for the windshield on the freeway.