Council Houses
Denim * Track #11 On Denim On Ice
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A council house is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. Lawrence references Bauhaus architects and how city planners did no justice to them using their ideas to build poorly constructed and conditioned tower blocks for the working classes.
Council Houses Lyrics
Council houses
Inner city
Urban squalor
Ooh, I won't pay the rent!
On this, this concrete slum
Imprisonment
Le Corbusier
Ooh, Mies Van der Rohe
Built some great stuff, you know
Oh, they had a dream
Was of a new utopia
In fear the public screamed
More opium!
Council houses
Inner city
Urban squalor
Ooh, I won't pay the rent!
On this, this concrete slum
Imprisonment
Walter Gropius
Man, I loved your style
So did the city planners after a while
But they got it wrong
The lazy sods didn't even tried
Why put a pig a in a palace
Put it in a sty
Council houses
Inner city
Urban squalor
Ooh, I won't pay the rent!
On this, this concrete slum
Imprisonment