Chumbawamba
The Candidates Find Common Ground
Full employment, slave labor, and schemesAn unemployed workforce, the capitalist's dreamBut lets keep Britain working--either way we must keep Britain workingConventional weapons to kill people nicelyNuclear weapons to keep the peaceBut weapons definitely--either way we must defend ourselvesNationalization, with one big bossNo, privatization, with lots of little bossesBut someone in control, of course, either way there must be someone giving orders(Chorus)A toast to democracyThe prison guard of this societySides in the voting gameDisappear into the same machineThe same machineA toastTo US bases and nuclear weaponsTo stopping pickets pulling down fencesTo the British troops in Northern IrelandTo the wonderful victory in the FalklandsTo the plastic bullet and the riot policeTo the UDM, to the TUCTo isolating gays and to law and to orderTo richer bosses, to poorer workers(Repeat chorus)To longer hours and to less paySongtexteTo the courts for those who get in our wayTo the beating of people who step out of lineTo the use of troops to break a strikeTo the expulsion of extremists and political witch huntsTo repatriation, to benefit cutsTo peaceful settlements, and to no strike agreementsTo authority, to power, to governmentsOne, two, threeTo the annual rise in the MP's wageTo vested interests, to privilegeTo the party who wins the next electionBy definition a victory to capitalism
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