The Sound of the Crowd

Two songs with links in the lyrics

Nik Kershaw, Roses:

but it’s an awful price to pay

believing everything they say

here tomorrow gone today

so take me home to the red red skies and the

brown, brown grass and the black, black seas

and the broken glass and the dead, dead trees

but everything’s coming up roses

or that’s what they tell you

‘cos everything’s coming up roses

or so they tell you

coming up smelling of roses

or so they say

Joe Jackson, Evil Empire:

There’s a country where no one knows

what’s going on in the rest of the world

There’s a country where minds are closed

with just a few asking questions

Like what do their leaders say

in sessions behind closed doors

and if this is the perfect way

why do we need these goddamn lies

This doesn’t go down too well

“We give you everything and you throw it back

Don’t like it here you can go to hell

You’re either with or against us . . .”

There’s a country that’s great and wide

It’s got the biggest of everything

Try to attack it and you can’t hide

Don’t say that you haven’t been warned…

…I could go on but what’s the use

You can’t fight them with songs

But think of this as just

another tiny blow against the Empire

Another blow against the Evil Empire


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