COGH EXCLUSIVE: the alternative English national anthem I wrote about 3 years ago

Secular Anthem for Patriot Souls

We shall not damage the acres we’ve tilled
Nor shall the pylons fall
We shall not ruin our highways with soil
Or resurrect Hadrian’s Wall
England we build you from brick and from stone
From silicon, iron and steel
We build you from networks and friendship and love
From barley, wheat and meal
And we shall find glory
As long as we build thus:
We build a new England
An England for us

With nuclear power and wireless net, our
Country is freshly reborn
So wave your mobile phones in the air
So sound the driver’s horn!
Through battle and empire our country expressed
An obsolete triumph of kings
Now arts and sports and sciences boast
The pride for which we sing:
A nation of humans
From disparate source
Together we travel
Down England’s ripe course

In every meadow, in every machine
This nation breathes alive
And we breathe too, the nation’s to
Protect our golden hive
The world shall end, and we shall end
One sad day yet to come
And just as England once was not
Once built it will succumb
But we shall find glory
As long as we build thus:
We build a new England
An England for us

god, what was I thinking with 'networks' and that line about highways. whatever happened to gangsta andy partridge asking us to push our cars from the road ;_;

http://www.nimisis.com/images/1106/england_win_ashes.jpg

With nuclear power and wireless net

We build you from networks and friendship and love would be a good advertising sting for Blackberry imo.

and scientology

wireless net kinda completely defines britain in 2010 tbf

but yeah point taken, still q proud of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas

argh you're so right abt blackberry, crypto-technologist corporate agenda be damned

*waves mobile phone in the air*

haha bit of a u-turn on that one eh

needs 'john terry is a cunt' in there somewhere, surely

your own versions are encouraged

you are building a new england
and you also found another girl

And when the tides have ebbed and flowed
o'er ingerland's sweet history
remember well the glory owed
to 451's sweet mystery

brethren all, defying all
yon glorious anglo-saxon
in war, in commerce, soccerball
john terry loves his mum's tongue action

1066 and all that
is such old hat
just remember this 'un
the number, 51

lol

if, likely as not, that verse should appal
with complaints against content or scansion
consider the wisdom of asking at all
for an irishman's brit national anthem

this is strong enough for me to call you out on this:

With nuclear power and wireless net, our
Country is freshly reborn

bullshit enjambment, raise the damn bar young L

general rule in re: enjambment = "will anyone notice, ever, even an hundred years from now? ok then I better keep at it" imo

careful y'all he's had at least three american drinks he's liable to critique damn-near just bout anything

enjamb
this you
sod

fair
enough though, youthful
airs and graces lead
to bad
habits

With nuclear power and the occasional shower
This country is freshly reborn

hahahahahaha A+++

england, up and atom!
though let me split no hairs
for all such of your modern airs
you're still taking orders from windsor heirs

if I decide to make a successor to Anarchy In The UK, those words will be considered

I am an anti-Christ
I am an ILXorist
Don't know what I want
but I know how to poll it
I wanna SB
ITV
'cause I... wanna B...
B... C...
On my TV!

enjamb
this you
sod

lol WCW in the damn house

hide your plums!

if I decide to make a successor to Anarchy In The UK, those words will be considered

― acoleuthic,

you're considering plagiarism with feckless frivolity;
i'm remembering faminetime five ships a day,
accounting for current hibernian poverty,
i'm anticipating a further case of 'british fail to pay'

lol WCW in the damn house

Metalheads at a Wetnurse show

Update for brexit

Boris relying on LJ to get him out of another fine mess