IT IS FORBIDDEN (PART ONE) LYRICS

If anybody wants to work up the music for this (I’m thinking a Leonard Cohen/Tom Waits vibe) we might decide to enter it for Eurovision ;-)

(This, by the way, is how you end up with “Dalek Invasion of Earth, the Musical” or a full concept album)

IT IS FORBIDDEN (Part One)

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

It might be a river (the river)

It looks like

Moving water to me

Radiation nil (Oxygen normal)

Pressure normal

It’s an Earth reading
We might be

Somewhere in London (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

It's uncanny

The word I was looking for

Was decay

It's most odd (Most odd)

I wouldn't spoil your

Homecoming for all the world

Pretty deserted

Probably Sunday

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

Look at all this neglect

All over the place

It's been abandoned

(All of it)

There's always a mess

With construction (construction)

There's not a sign of any

People anywhere

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

Be careful, my child

The ship!
Don't go too near, my boy

(It’s not safe)

The whole bridge has collapsed
It's all crumbling
We're going to need help

To shift this

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

Here we are

Standing by the Thames

We've been here quite a while

(How long?)

Quarter of an hour

Twenty minutes?
What have we heard?

Nothing (Precisely nothing)

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

No sound of birdsong

No voices - No sound of shipping

Not even the chimes

Of old Big Ben (Uncanny)

What you need is

A jolly good smacked bottom

I'll go and wet my handkerchief

In the river (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

It is forbidden (forbidden)

To dump bodies

Into the river (the river)

MAWH, December 2017

(Adapted from an original script by Terry Nation)