The Beginning Is Nigh

Extraordinary rendition and covert operations

homogeneity of news from the television stations

hegemony of politics drifting ever further right

policemen breaking doors down in the middle of the night

Hatred for asylum seeker and economic refugee

as the politicians fight for who is most like the BNP

Terrorism, Islam, slow pull-out from Iraq

but stop their oil again old son and you know that they’ll be back

Unemployment rising and the economic crunch

bank employees laid off with directors out to lunch

government pisses taxes in billions down the drain

and yet it still has not derailed their pension gravy train

The banking sector cancered by the tumor of its greed

whilst the great majority scratch around for no more than chicken feed

demonstrators asking for them to hear what we have said

the answer comes from police files as to why a man is dead

Labour and the Tories fighting over right-wing ground

and if you read the media you’d think there were no other sound

dissent consigned to history in this post-protesting age

newspapers running populist bile and adverts on every page

It’s time a new day dawned and we had a system we might trust

and one that comes before this one has reduced us all to dust

it’s not too late to make that change, remember Rosa Parks

proof if it were needed of when courage leaves its marks

And if you stand beside me friend you know we aren’t alone

and life for us is more than being a capitalist’s drone

the power we will have together brings the system to its knees

we can start by removing Sellafield and replacing it with trees

Song Of The Day – Portishead – Sour Times