five years

[below being the lyric - subject to revision - of the baader-meinhof ballad in 5/8 currently being assembled for a record by nick hudson and duncan harrison]

five dull flames
no names, no faith, no fear
one idea
smouldering in here

bunker-bound
never fought, forgot or found
refugees
dust in the breeze

red alert
ideology designs to hurt
gagged and bound
never to be found

hunger strike
survey of their hopes and likes
cut them dry
anaesthetic to the eye

vision scrubbed
memory nipped and tucked
family wiped
hammer, sickle, star, stripe