Taking Us Back

[Verse]

We're alright mate
It's not us it's them
As he repeats himself
Again and again

He throws over
A nod and a wink
And has another piss week
Fighting drink

Like a rose-tinted gammon dream
And it's brought up again
We'll never forgive
And we'll never forget

You were never there
Just accept it
It's a bigotry claim
All hidden and named

Through shabby endless
Lines and lines and lines
Of empty big-neck
Clubber-men

And they're kicking up
Like god knows when
As aggression is in
Fashion again

[Chorus]

And they're taking us back
They're taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Verse]

This ruddy based recession
A xenophobic monster crunch
Orange lit side street
Blood on concrete

Illuminated polyester strutters
And they're pissing in the gutters
We're all pissing in the gutters

As this will be
Forever England
Forever rotting
Forever shite

[Chorus]

And they're taking us back
They're taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Verse]

A statue of a dead white man
Standing in a big square
Looking down
With Victorian frown

And remind you of a bygone sway
A non-existent memorial day
And it's covered in pigeon shit
Plastered head to foot

Pissed up against on the weekend circuit
And it's falling apart
And it's weathered away
And no one cares who they are

A monument to an invented age
Another monument to an invented age

[Chorus]

And they're taking us back
They're taking us back, back, back, back, back
And they're taking us back
They're taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Outro]

Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back