Over the Top

Over the Top - Hawkwind

All in aday's work

All in all in

All in a day's work

All in all in

All in a day's work

I know

I would rather the firestorms of atmospheres

Than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dream

Into the starkness of this capsule

Where two of our crew still lie

Suspended cool

In their tombs of sleep

The nagging choirs of memory

The tubes and wires worming from their flesh

To machinery

I would have to cut

Such midwifery is but one function

Of the leader here

Floating in a sac of fluid

Dark

A clear century of space away from Earth

One man stirs from the trauma of his birth

Attending to the hypno tapes

Assuring him

This was reality

However grim

Oh our journey's end

The landing itself was nothing

We touched upon a shelf of rock

Selected by the auto mind

And left the galaxy of dreams behind

And it's all a fable for fountains now

It's all a fable for fountains now

It's all a fable for fountains now

And were your childhood dreams

All a fable

For fountains now

For fountains now

Now now

Now now now

Fountains fountains

All going up in fountains fountains

All a fable for fountains now

Go on

There's no other

But just a minute now

When you gaze into my eyes

You're looking at your own reflection

And all you see is your disguise

You wear for your own protection

So don't go telling me that you know just when to stop

When to stop

You know you go

Over the top

Over the top

It's over the top

Over the top

Hey I'm going over the top

Over the top oh

Over the top all right here it goes

In 1916

We dug the trenches

But we don't need them

We have our own defences

We don't need no officers

To blow no whistle and scream

Come on you guys

Wake up out of your dream

And follow me

I'm going

Over the top

Over the top

Follow me

Over the top

Here goes now

Your country needs you

Hey Kitchener don't you know that moustaches

Went out with the Beatles

Give me white feather

Give me white feather

Give me white feather

Hung up on the wire

Give me white feather

Give me white feather

Give me white feather

Hung upon the wire

Hung upon the wire

Strung upon barbed wire

Huh strung upon barbed wire