Afterglow - Momus

Welcome to the afterglow

Welcome to the show

We welcome to the world

The flight just arrived at gate 17

We welcome to the world the ones who left to find

Other states of mind while others stayed behind

We welcome to the world the ones who couldn’t live it

Too late to begin it and too soon to end it

For they are the returning generation

We welcome to the world

The flight just arrived at gate 17

Would all passengers who’ve been

In search of other ways of living

Check at Information for debriefing

For they are the returning generation

Welcome to the world

Where shares can go down as well as up

Where 'Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup'

Plays on a remastered CD somewhere in Los Angeles

While seagulls wheel and the index drops

Research and development, I’m in my element

With the last of the elephants brainstorming

Never mind what’s relevant and never mind selling it

While the power drains from the mainframes I’m surfing on the brainwaves

Singing free the slaves, Jesus saves And other bullshit literature

Washed down in the rainstorm

Welcome to the world

Check your hostility

At gate17

This is information

We eat, we sleep, we shit and fuck and die

We speak, we hope, we learn, we try

Welcome to the afterglow

Welcome to the show

For we are the returning generation

We welcome to the world

The flight just arrived at gate 17

Would all passengers who’ve been

In search of other ways of living

Check at Information for debriefing

Too late to enjoy it

Too soon to destroy it

Too dumb to invent it

Too smart to end it