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A Vision Lyrics by Simon Armitage

Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid

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The future was a beautiful place, once.
Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town
on public display in the Civic Hall.
The ring-bound sketches, artists’ impressions,

blueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel,
board-game suburbs, modes of transportation
like fairground rides or executive toys.
Cities like dreams, cantilevered by light.

And people like us at the bottle-bank
next to the cycle-path, or dog-walking
over tended strips of fuzzy-felt grass,
or model drivers, motoring home in

electric cars, or after the late show -
strolling the boulevard. They were the plans,
all underwritten in the neat left-hand
of architects – a true, legible script.

I pulled that future out of the north wind
at the landfill site, stamped with today’s date,
riding the air with other such futures,
all unlived in and now fully extinct.

About “A Vision” by Simon Armitage

Read the complete lyrics to "A Vision" by Simon Armitage from the album "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid". On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under Non-Music, Literature.

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"A Vision" appears on "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid".

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