I listened to Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds a couple of days ago, and I can't get it out of my head now! It does have some good songs, though. And a good story. So I suppose it's OK.

My favourite's Brave New World, where the Artilleryman sings about his plan of living underground:

We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? So, we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. You know where? Underground! You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains... sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch. And what's so bad about living underground, eh? S'not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion!

Take a look around you,

At the world we've come to know.

Does it seem to be much more,

Than a crazy circus show?

But maybe from the madness,

Something beautiful will grow.

In a Brave new world!

With just a handful of men...

We'll start- We'll start all over again!

All over again!

All over again!

All over again!

We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks, right under their noses, right under their feet! Everything we need - Banks, prisons, and schools! We'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff, and men like you will teach the kids; Not poems and rubbish - Science! So we can get everything working! We'll build villages, and towns, and... and we'll play each other at cricket! Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a fighting machine, eh? Learn how to make 'em ourselves, and then.... WALLOP! Our turn to do some wiping out! WHOOOSH with OUR heat ray! WHOOSH! And THEM running and dying! Beaten at their own game! MAN ON TOP AGAIN!

Now our domination of the earth is fading fast,

And out of the confusion, the chance has come at last,

To build a better future from the ashes of the past,

In a Brave new world!

With just a handful of men...

We'll start all over again!

Look!

Man is born in freedom, but he soon becomes a slave,

In cages of convention, from the cradle to the grave.

The weak fall by the wayside, but the strong will be saved,

In a Brave new world!

With just a handful of men...

We'll start all over again!

I'm not trying to tell you

What to be...

Oh no, oh no, not me.

But if mankind is to survive,

The people left alive,

They're gonna have to build this world anew...

And it's going to have to start with me and you!

YES!

I'm not tryin' to tell you what to be...

Oh no, oh no, not me.

But if mankind is to survive,

The people left alive,

They're gonna have to build this world anew...

And yes we will have to be the chosen few!

Just think of all the poverty, the hatred and the lies,

And imagine the destruction of all that you despise,

Slowly from the ashes that phoenix will arise,

In a Brave New World...

With just a handful of men...

We'll start all over again!

Take a look around you...

At the world you've loved so well...

And bid the aging empire of man a last farewell...

It may not sound like heaven...

But at least it isn't ####...

It's a Brave New World!

With just a handful of men...

We'll start all over again!

I'VE GOT A PLAN!

Can't you just see it? Civilisation starting all over again! A second chance! We could even tunnel to the coast, go there for our holidays! Nothing can stop men like us!

Awesome song.

Rav