Supper’s Off

[Rant ONE. "My Child's a Stranger - I bore her but I could not raise her"]

I was born into a time when people walked on the moon
When transatlantic jets could make the trip in three hours
When planes could do vertical take-offs
And when rock festivals were free and you could take your own drinks
When bands wrote symphonies and tone poems
And there was oft a chance that somewhere amongst the bolster, there might have been a couple of words that meant something
To the world we live in

I find myself part of a generation that lapped up wealth
That created Simon Cowell
And watered documentary television down to a kind of
"Through The Round Window" level
People my age play the Stock Market
And make selfish decisions in positions of power
Based loosely on the 'fact' that they're "Just Like Us"
And we're "All In This Together"

[Rant TWO. "Like He's Listening Back to the Good Old Bands"]

Seems like the end of the world is coming
The Four Horsemen - The Red Gas Bill
Seems like the wolves at the door are humming songs to make us scared
And each month we try to help ourselves get by
With whatever's left of the dosh
Don't believe them at the BBC
We cook the Books of Revelation
Have Seven Bowls of beans for tea

Seems like we'll never get back to Tesco's
From the discount frozen food store
Seems like the car's just a traitor
("Six six six" written on the door)
'Cause the M.O.T. is due in three weeks
And we'll be back again, in the shit
In the doldrums while the BBC
Tells all the world that we're finished
And all the world is forced to agree

We try to change the world
But the world won't take the hint
They go running back off to the seventies
And all the other bands are skint

And we'll be back again, in the shit
In the doldrums while the BBC
Tells all the world that we're finished
And all the world is forced to agree

We try to change the world
They go running back off to the seventies
And all the other bands are skint

[Rant THREE - "By The Time We Got To Woodstock"]

When all those guys sat at Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight
I had this feeling that no one would ever get them to stand in line
To become part of the system that had
Supported war and bigotry for so long
Yet statistically there must have been people at those festivals
Who were even on that day planning careers
In Right Of Centre politics, the pursuit of power through money
The whole focus of what was being said on that day!

As a result of their success in their endeavours
Rock and Roll is no longer about a few hippies
Knocking about in a field somewhere in the middle of America
It's about half time in the Superbowl
It's about colossal advertising budgets
And stars on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame
People using the Rolling Stones in presidential campaigns

We try to change the world
But the world won't take the hint
They go running back off after the seventies
And all the other bands are skint

They go running back off after the seventies
And all the other bands are skint