Project: Music Inspired Imagery - Lyrics

New day, new post, new brief. The beginning of our new project involves choosing two songs (one out of four songs given to us, and the other being any song we wanted) and analysing the lyrics. I've only managed to narrow my personal song choices down to a few unfortunately (I never knew how many great songs there were out there ><). The first batch of lyrics is one of the four songs that I chose:

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues

The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this:

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies
Picked through the rubble
And pulled of their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand
And we fell into it
Like a daydream
Or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood

Next up is the song for my personal choice (Translated from Japanese):

Brunch - Imagine

John,
Still in this place people fight only for themselves
John,
Will the paradise you once dreamt ever become real?
The paradise you always dreamt

There isn't up or down
Everyone under the same sky
The paradise from our dreams! (That's our paradise!)

Greedless, nothing to lose
An impartial world
A dream paradise

Here right now!

John,
How's over there?
Has your dream been fulfilled?
How long we need to wait to meet the paradise
We've always dreamt?
The place you always dreamt of!

There isn't up or down
Everyone under the same sky
The paradise from our dreams! (That's our paradise!)

Greedless, nothing to lose
An impartial world
A dream paradise

Imagine all the people in peace!

If I ever could go there
Only with you
The one & only love
Will take me there
Before my remaining life's bells ring
If I ever could go there

There isn't up or down
Everyone under the same sky
The paradise from our dreams! (That's our paradise!)

Greedless, nothing to lose
An impartial world
A dream paradise

There isn't up or down
Everyone under the same sky
Greedless, nothing to lose
An impartial world
A dream paradise