Champion Songtext

In the heat of the river In the heat of the morning sun I saw Rose Out on the river Staring down the city guns She said I am the one I am the champion Protector Leader Defender Optimum champion She said I am the one I am the only one In the aftermath of atomic fire I'll be your champion Distinctly unhumble they said That's what they called her then But everything she touched Seemed to turn out like magic then And the walls The walls of the city They fell down like magic then And the walls The walls of my heart They fell apart like magic then She was the one She was the number one In this age of madness This age of the gun Rose was the champion Hot war who could ask for more Six minutes on a cold winter morning Cold war ain't here no more Rose, Rose, take me home Rose Lightning Rose Carry me home Take me home Home home home Nanananananananana Nanananananananana There is no more order Nanananananananana (continues in the background until **) And there is no more Yale There is no more New York No more Central Park No more Walter Cronkite Duran Duran No more Bruce Springsteen (he bought it) No more Ray Charles Or MTV Or RCA Victor And Yale is a sheet of radio-active glass thirty miles across No more Jodie Foster And there is no more California No more Moscow, or Mecca, no Tel Aviv, or Riyadh or Peking or Cuba no London No Washington DC Kansas is left They didn't touch Cleveland! And there are no more bombs They used them all! Not many Russians left And there no more assholes There'll always be assholes Why couldn't we stop it then, what did we do so wrong And it's such a bloody drag to have to rebuild civilization all over again ** Nananananana nananana Nananananana nananana There is no more order But there is Rose And Rose is your heart And Rose is love And Rose is spirit And Faith and light Rose is Friday night And we all have Rose If we start right now And if we sing long enough And if we sing loudly enough And if we sing strong enough We can make a difference We can make a difference Yeah yeah yeah, she said I'll be the one I'll be the only one