One - exterior - cathedral - daylight

Establishing its beauty in elevation

Stained glass in stoned carvings

From its huge doors suddenly

Comes a flow of white clad quire boys

And yellic white criplest bobling in a discipled stream

But then, suddenly in the midst

Startling ridiculous, incongrous, is Martin

The young man in an ill-fitting raincoat

As the boys preceed on their alterly way

Martin is left alone, peculiar, disturbing

Which one, which one will it be?



Two - interior - an office near the catherdral - daylight

A view of the cathedral through the window

Alone, in this decension office

Above the small printing presses

Sits Mister Bates, middle-aged, miticulace

Writing with a gold, barould-fountain pen

He's finishing a little verse

Benath a picture of an angel:

" Although we all must sometimes stumble

As we journey through this life

I never heard you moan or grumble

The perfect mother and wife"

Bates plates the sheet of paper

On top of a pile of similar sheets

His face heavy with contempt

He stares into the middle distance

A friendly photograph

Of a lively, attractive young woman

Patty, his daughter, is in front of him

On his expands of desk

He glances at it, he capts his fountain pen

Neatly puts the sheet into the pending tray

Neatly lines up his bloter, his descades

And satisfied rises to join the homeward thrung



Three - exterior - cathedral - precincts - fading daylight

A few people bobing along

With the enomenous, near vacant,

Tired expression of homegoers

Which one, which one will it be?





-> CD Soundtrack Brimstone & Treacle 1981