Richard Burton - The Artilleryman Returns lyrics

Instrumental (0:00 - 0:52) [Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")] Again, I was on my way to London, through towns and villages that were blackened ruins, totally silent, desolate, deserted. Man's empire had pa**ed away, taken swiftly and without error, by these creatures who were composed entirely of brain. Unhampered by the complex systems which make up man, they made and used different bodies according to their needs. They never tired, never slept and never suffered, having long since eliminated from their planet the bacteria which cause all fevers and other morbidities...