Thomas Dolby

Lyrics to White City

Keith was the sole inhabitant

Keith was the sold inhabitant

Keith woke beside the fountain

From his dreams of china mountains

Far from the chatter of these autobanks

That keep chucking up money!

It turned into the kind of joke

That Keith feels isn't that funny

The White City

The White City

Keith talked in alphanumerals

Keith talked in alphanumerals

Keith built a drug cathedral

Shape of an octahedron

Where he could hide from young Orwellians

Who would trample their brothers!

A thin white powder film on everything

But soot is the colour

Of the White City

The White City

The White City

So - are you happy

With this vision you've created

Should have known you'd never rest

Til we're all incinerated

And you know you are the best

The White, the White City

The White City

[VOICEOVER]

Where was I? Bedfordshire. That's a lousy place, since the A45

You go round and it's utterly flat. I can't see how you can have any, any enthusiasm

For that sort of thing at all...

My idea when we started out was to have a, you know, rising up, and falling, kind of an

Undulating, ovulating ground, which you don't get so much nowadays...

Everything tends to be sort of piecemeal and staggered

Which I don't think's really very exciting, do you?

Ah, you're not there either.