WrongTale
Saturday 28th June 2008 10:41am [Edited]
Riga
491 posts
hands down, it's Skyclad and their ex-frontman Martin Walkyier
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/princeofthepovertyline.html
Youth of our nation - A lost generation
Like lepers we march to the chimes of Big Ben.
Exiled and rejected by powers elected
Our cries from the gutter don't reach number ten.
Give us this day our daily bread
Before the headlines read "bring out your dead."
Chip-wrapper flowers are blown onto this cardboard grave
My spray paint epitaph upon the wall it says...
"Here lies the bones of some poor homeless vagrant
He died as he lived, in the shit on the pavement."
Election day promises now null and void
They'll never rest 'til we're all unemployed
UB40's a book that you'll find very hard to put down
The dormant machinery screams - taunting the skies
Ghosts of the Halcyon dream sustaining our lives
and one of my favourites, "Penny Dreadful":
Forgive me if I'm out of order -
this new "music" has no soul.
It may be good for making money,
(sadly that is not my goal).
Integrity and honesty are words that you don't understand,
but you're the best - it says so in the penny dreadful in your hand.
I saw you in the magazine,
they're calling you messiah.
They must be living in a dream -
they couldn't be more wrong.
If we'd played this riff more punk,
than may be we'd have had a million seller.
But this piper's tune is not for sale,
(I'm glad to say I'm not that kind of fella).
D.J.s, V.J.s, pimps and trollops,
never mind music - this is bollocks.
Painted faces in a circus - images that spring to mind,
when I read my penny dreadful filled with pictures of your kind.
Commercial suicide's appealing after
ten years on this losing streak.
'Cause I'd rather be called sour and bitter
then be deemed the flavour of the week.
...with songtitles like:
Thinking Allowed
The Ilk Of Human Blindness
Desperanto (A Song For Europe?)
History Lessens
The Great Brain Robbery
Think Back And Lie Of England
and my all time favourite:
Great Blow For A Day Job
