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The girl who lived in a shed is dead, she
Died in the recent bad weather, her
Body was found wrapped in blankets and clothes,
Huddled up by a one bar heater
The girl who lived in a shed is dead,
Victim of financial crisis, she
Couldn’t afford to stay in the sticks, but too
Poor to live with London prices, three
Hundred a week, just to keep off the streets? At
Least the landlord’s making a killing, and
Now that he has, they’ll just brick up the door -
Small enough to double as her coffin
The girl who lived in a shed is dead
died before she could be evicted
Now it’s a shell and that good awful smell’s
The only proof she ever existed
Girl who lived in a shed is dead -
and out of respect for the departed
Give it six months then they’ll have a spring clean then they’ll
Put it back out on the market at
Eight hundred a week, just to keep off the streets
this madness shows no signs of stopping
And you know very well take a cold day in Hell
before its prices not people that are dropping
The girl who lived in a shed is dead
The girl who lived in a shed
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Don't Bash the Bishop
02:44
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Hey there preacher, leave those kids alone, oh yeah
They don’t need sex education - Not the kind you’re offering
Something unfunny happened on the way to the altar
Cardinal O’Brien in hot pink brothel creepers
Don’t you bash religion, the things that people do
In its name are not the same as what it offers you
Responsibility lies x 3
Every time
Hey there preacher, leave those kids alone ...
They don’t need sex education - Not the way you’re doing it.
Something unfunny happened on the way to the altar
Cardinal sin, it lurks in every dimly lit corner
You don’t have to be a bigoted believer to
See blind faith, blind hatred are as bad as one another
Responsibility lies x 3
Every time ...
If you want to bash religion, go ahead, for the right reasons
Human lust and power, please don’t make it open season
On any in a dog collar. We all need a faith a follow -
Science, football, waking up to a better tomorrow
But here comes Richard Dorkins, and he’s out to stick his oar in,
Asks too much of all those who aren’t brave with disbelieving
All but science - prove you’re better, leading by example
Accepting any difference that’s is not your difference might yet make a difference ...
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Ex-pats read the Daily Mail
Import hate just one day late
Get their prejudice confirmed -
Russian Oligarchs dead in their beds,
Paedophiles rule Britain since they left …
Don’t like the people or cuisine
Import Marmite, margarine
Can’t be arsed with foreign tongue
To their non-existent manor born
Would have stayed at home if it was warm
Europe wants to be one happy family, but
We’re its racist grandad, telling crass, off-colour jokes
We haven’t got a good word left to say ‘bout anyone
Sadly Europe’s missed the point England hasn’t changed
Cold-shouldered, left behind
Out-thought, out-gunned, out-played
What England gave the world, the
World is giving back in spades
Fourth-rate cold back water that
Thinks it’s still important now,
Dreams it’s still a world at war
Tells itself it’s still a great world power
Never got what was wrong with empire
Cold snaps, cold hearts everywhere
I’m not your average Englishman
Give me one thing makes me proud
Out of here soon as I get the chance
I am saving up to move to France (oh the internal irony)
Europe wants to be, one happy family, but
We’re its racist grandad, telling crass, off-colour jokes
We haven’t got a good word left to say ‘bout anyone
Such a fucking shame that we’re still the fucking same
Cold-shouldered, left behind
Out-thought, out-gunned, out-played
What England gave the world, the
World is giving back in spades
(England is its own shithole
Tearing us a brand new arsehole
for the sake of having two)
Fake dream of Winston Churchill
Matthew Arnold, Edith Sitwell
doesn’t sit that well with me
Rudyard Kipling, Coventry Patmore
I don’t know if I can take more
England will never, never be free
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It would be ok if it was the 70s, when there was
Nothing gay about wrestling, it would be
Ok if it was the 70s
before pedophilia was invented
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When PC meant your local bobby
Who had strange idea of a hobby -
beating up blacks and dissenters;
It would be ok if only it was still the 70s
But it’s not cos it’s not, so what else have you got?
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When gays could only be thespians
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When all feminists were lesbians
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When casual racism was encouraged,
A whole nation flourished, hate
Nourished by The Comedians
It would be ok if only it was still the 70s
But it’s not cos it’s not, and OK’s not good enough - when
Posh boys in their ivory towers
Gold-lined pockets of power
Hibernating, iron ladies in waiting to
Mislead the ill-educated
And while they wait, they sing …
“The South can never rise again, ’cos it
Stayed on moral high ground, the
South can not despise again, it
Never stopped first time around”
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When smoking didn’t yet cause cancer
It would be ok if it was the 70s, looking
Down on Oop North was the done thing
It would be ok if it was the 70s
When loony lefties, communists,
Terrorists, trade unionists were
one and the same thing
It would be ok if only it was still the 70s - when the
Past is all you’ve got can you be really sure it’s not? Cos
Meanwhile in Barratt Home counties
They just took a very long tea break
Now they patiently wait for
conditions to far right themselves
Again; again they sing …
“The South can never rise again, it
Never fell from moral high ground
South can not despise again, it
Never stopped last time, the
South can never rise again, it
Never fell from moral high ground, the
South can not despise again, it
Never stopped first time around.”
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Brian Kills Giants
02:57
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Levenson, Press Inspector versus
Posh private school sector, oh
You could always see
Who the winner would be
But suddenly cheers are stopping from
Fleet Street out to Wapping,
Could this really be
A small victory?
Giant-killing happens all the time, in
Football matches and in pantomimes, in
Fairy tales and nursery rhymes
Whichever this is, I don’t much mind ….
Grease-lipped lords of poshness with their
Strange idea of justice
thought they had carte blanche,
They couldn’t be stopped
Kingdom of proctologists,
Royalist apologists
Never thought I’d see
Them brought to their knees
CHORUS
(spoken word) Or
Maybe I’m just too dumb
To fully understand
And this is just another of your
Nothing slights of hand
But even if it is, please
let me have just this
Cos in this shabby land
Even I need positives ...
Revolution isn’t kicking off
No such thing as an underdog; still any
any victory for privacy is good to see, go kill giants
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Poor David Cameron, lies awake in his bed
Tossing and turning, mind’s eye is burning, brains keep on churning
Paddington jim-jams are soaking with sweat
Turns to his wife but Sam’s out like a light - he trembles with fright -
Wraps himself tightly in Chelsea bedspread
Creak on the stairs, he shouldn’t be scared, it’s just a nightmare
A bloodbath of anger and righteous revenge, but
what if this nightmare won’t ever end?
And this is what Dave dreamt
Theresa
May, Theresa May, killed off
In the most apt way
Locked up in close quarters with
those she’s had deported
Jack’s shadowing the cabinet
With razor wire and bayonet
Tabloids are all taken aback
Broadsheets don’t know how to react, so they just write
“Robert Stack meets Spring-Heeled Jack
To soundtrack of Shakatak”
Knight him, hang him, scream the headlines
Doubt don’t sit well with press deadlines
Poor Eric
Pickles, Eric Pickles, Smashed with
Hammer, slashed with sickle
Plumped up Civil servant
Soup kitchen serving
Terrorist? Freedom fighter?
Killer, Community pillar?
Tabloids are all taken aback
Broadsheets don’t know how to react - and so they write
CHORUS
PM’s question time, Jack
drowns them in quicklime
Predators made victims -
What court would convict him?
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When it
Comes to immigration, the EU, he don’t much mind - cos he’s
only voting UKIP so he can smoke inside
Cos
They can’t come here, steal our jobs when there’s no jobs to steal
Occupy the bigots, act like we care how they feel
Barrage of Farage is just storm in a teacup,
Evoking the Blitz for mild case of the hiccoughs
Well, She wants to adopt some kids from East European Nation
Whilst she’s voting for a party that wants to repatriate ‘em
(they really bloody hate’em!)
We’ve
Fucked it up so royally, without the EU’s help
Don’t need to look abroad for cause of national ill health
Farage’s farrago was shit from the get-go but
Still it keeps spreading like Starbucks or Tescos
Spite supernova, From Perthshire to dover
Peddling anger from Cambridge to bangor
Hate Casanova from Tryll to Andover
He ill-informed loiters round Watford Gap goiter
This godawful blunderland, this Tear-Me-Asunderland
A beautiful mess, a mess nonetheless
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You think you’ve got charisma? Well, so did Adolf Hitler –
And as his story tells us, that didn’t work out well, love!
The ease with which the Germans were turned is most disturbing - They’re
not a stupid people, they soon turned on his mad evil (take the hint)
Listening to your country never been PM requirement
But don’t forget dictators rarely reach retirement
not advocating murder, or social disorder;
As a knee-jerk liberal, I’m just trying to warn ya
No right-thinking person would wish another dead but
Your policies prove not all us are right in the head. (Heads up, Dave!)
They’ve put the popemobile in Exchange and Mart
Not saying that you need it but it would be a start.
Been stealing from the poor so there’s plenty in the coffers
So it’s worth considering putting in an offer
Bigots often ask me if I hate this country
Why don’t I move to Russia? The answer is quite easy -
I don’t move to Russia, cos There is just no need, see,
Not when our government acts just like they are the KGB.
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Twenty Twelve summer,
our pub on the corner
The landlords renamed it,
Cashed in on Olympics
they’d claimed it enabled
Forgotten disabled
And coincidentally,
made heaps of guilt money
Comes to the crunch, we’re sat eating pub lunch,
Blackberries on tables, there’s none in the pies, oh
We annexed our local from all the poor locals
With military fervour, we read the Observer ...
Now that it’s winter
The swimmers and sprinters
Gone home. Visibility’s an
Underfed memory
‘Cos when it
comes to the crunch, we’re sat eating pub lunch,
took all of six months for the games to be done for. We’ve
Annexed our boozer, drove out the poor losers
True legacy remains, a pub with dumb name - “the wheelchair basketballer”
“The wheelchair basketballer” x2
BBC Sports Lack of Personality of the Year
Turn over the channel, no new leaf will appear
“The wheelchair basketballer” x2
Mine’s a pint of Kir …
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Where the Sea Might Be
02:27
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Ban Xmas, ban theatre, but don’t you touch the media!
Ban drinking, horse-racing, repeal that Sunday trading;
Crown prince of Whitehall, the clown prince of shortfall
Ban make-up, ban football, let this be your downfall
Our blue square premier league
Can’t hold a man like he
Big fish bobs round infinity pool
Staring wistfully out to sea
sell welfare, sell healthcare, the hungry and the threadbare
Distract from destruction, sell anti-immigration
Crown prince of Whitehall, the clown prince of shortfall
In chaos, in freefall, still it’s not your downfall
Our blue square premier league
Can’t hold a man like he
Big fish bobs round infinity pool
Staring wistfully out to sea
Or at least stares to where
He thinks the sea might be x2
Cameron Lord Protector
And Witchfinder General
Craving better weather
He’s invading Senegal
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Robin Hoodie
02:46
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This country has no national dish
Unless you’re counting puddings
Ploughman’s lunch and fish and chips
Are hardly stuff of legend.
The tuck shop’s running out of sweets
The streets awash with horsemeat
We need to give our nation treats -
No national pride? We’ll force it!
Here comes R-factor, for our country’s good,
To find English people a new Robin Hood -
But the people say ...
“Steal from the rich, yes, we’ve got that bit;
But give to the poor? Well, what the fuck for?
Paying it forward? That’s just hippy crap in
This currency climate, best to hold it all back”
Out of date and out of place,
their glory days well over
Our national icons are in need
Of an image make-over
Need someone to make a stand
In this divisive crisis
Who knew the only folk to trust were
selling advertising?
Here comes G-factor on Channel More Four
To find English People a brand-new St. George
But the people say …
“It sounds a bit scary to be killing a dragon so
Let’s say that we did, and go to local tavern
Instead, to quaff down some bubbling flagons
Of mead. Someone else will win G factor soon.”
Here comes A-factor in search of an Actor
With a big enough beard to play at King Arthur.
“Explain this again, I go wait by a lake for a
Wet woman with sword - that’s all power will take?
Where do I sign up?”
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King Jimmy of Saville, he never heard gavel, no,
Not in his lifetime, despite all of his foul crimes.
Sir Tony of Blairtown, let all us kids down,
Enjoys Arab Springtime despite all his vile war crimes;
But Poor Gary Glitter has right to be bitter;
He’s done the hard time, for his shocking crimes, his
Number one hits never fiddled with kids, but
Still they’ve been vanished, to phantom zone been banished.
Stalinist revision by the
Lords of Eurovision means
You’ll never get to hear the
real yesteryear, I fear.
Lord Jimmy of Saville, his knees pocked with gravel
Where he went down on the Devil for his freedom
Whilst we take hammerin’ from Earl Dave of Cameron,
He’s nobbled our kneecaps through shared gravel-based mishap.
CHORUS
BBC, so cowardly, scared
Stiff of Mastiff Tories who
Bark the loudest, deftless Hefties
Calling them all paedo-lefties
Saint Michael of Jackson, the saccharine version
Monster while living, in death gets a revision
King Jimmy of Saville avoided both barrels
By cunningly dying, the man sure had good timing
CHORUS
But masonic masterplan? that’s eso-
teric marzipan. Cos with an
Iron fist we’re ruled by
The Brotherhood of Man ...
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