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
