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Vote for Me
If you vote for me
I’ll give you my word
I will do my utmost to change the world
If you vote for him
He will let you down
He won’t do a thing
He won’t stick around
But if you vote me in
I will not give up
The struggle for a better life
A better life for us
I only have
Your best interest
At heart
If you vote for me
I’ll repay the trust
I’ll be there for you from dawn to dust
If you vote for me
Vote for me
Don’t vote for him
Vote for me
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Pop Music For Ugly People
He’s one of a kind if he did but know it
Here comes a big reveal don’t blow it
Been round in circles like stalking a prey
Opportunity knocks he will seize the day
And you cant remember anything about him in particular
Did he pay attention in class was he a regular
Was he?
This is the church this is the steeple
Open the door it’s just pop music for ugly people
See them come running
Meanwhile in the bus station at midnight
They’re rounding up the homeless
And they’re taking them some place out of sight
Results come in and he twitches, and he smiles
He came from nowhere just a couple of miles down the road
The screaming Lord is well beaten into third
Its no more or less than we deserve
CHORUS
He blame’s the scroungers and the née do wells
Playing out of time and a dream that didn’t sell
The wretched blame game and the art of spin
One hundred thousand signatures won’t stop him
CHORUS
All the polls were wrong the data is gone
And you were right all along about that
There’s no such thing as a predictable win
The doting wife duly kisses him
CHORUS
Ugly people
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Diane Abbot Takes A Selfie
Dianne Abbot takes a selfie
Uploads it to Instagram
Her followers they all share it
And she’s so grateful for it
And she completes a questionnaire
The Guardian want to know
What’s it like to be Dianne?
Tell us something we don’t know
People recognise her on the train
She’d rather not sign autographs today
Don’t ask her outright can’t you see she’s working
Yeah right
David Cameron takes a selfie
Uploads it to snap chat
On his arm a brace of bimbos
And he’s grinning like Cheshire cat
The man who hailed the Brexit gamble
And loved up corporation tax
He likes to let his hair down
Whenever he gets a chance
People recognise him just the same
Dancing in the silent disco with what’s her name
Samantha went home early she’s in bed
With a book and a bit of a sore head
She’s lightweight
Ann Widdecombe posts a selfie
And Twitter holds its breath
People re tweet in their droves
And Ann feels happy to connect
The faded reality TV star
And the virginal MP
Is looking for another challenge
To suit her personality
People recognise her everywhere she goes
She checks her news feed and her sensible clothes
The dairy’s is filling up
And Jesus loves her for being just like one of us
Or so she tells herself
William Haig takes a selfie
Brian Cox takes a selfie
Alan Shearer takes a selfie
Sandy Toksvig takes a selfie
Charmaine from Holly Oaks takes a selfie
Ed Balls takes a selfie
He takes a lot of selfies
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Culture Vulture
04:21
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Culture Vulture
Oh no not you again
How did you get on
Where did you go wrong
Who do you think you are
How much can you take
Keep your foot on the brake
And leave your shoes by the door and your heart on the dancefloor…
Screw you
Culture vulture
Time like a chimpanzee
Hangs from the balcony
Drops a Mahler symphony
And promises to set your mind free
Art is a tired old man
Science doesn’t have a plan
Radio a black hole
That recycles the same old hyper bowl
Screw you
Culture Vulture
Embrace the unpopular song
Expect to get it all wrong
And wash the car soccer Mom there’s a little bit of me in where you’re from
Do your best to entertain
In spite of an unfortunate name
Like Sean write for luck
Many are called but few get up oh
Screw you
Culture vulture
A drop in the ocean of life
A grain of sand a beach in the moonlight
Fake news heads in a spin
A bit like you a bit like him
Cart before the horse
Tried before the courts
Been and gone the paintings going to sell but you can’t afford to buy one
Screw you
Culture vulture
I’m in the jungle get me out of here
I have a morbid fear of creepy crawlies
I’m in the Trafford Centre get me out of here
I have this morbid fear get me out of here
Screw you
Culture vulture
I’m at the pool get me out of here
I have this morbid fear of drowning
I’m in the theatre get me out of here
I have a morbid fear of Shakespeare
Get me out of here
Culture vulture
Oh no not you again
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Ministry of Fate
04:25
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Ministry of Fate
Tony spins another plate
It’s not looking good it’s not looking great mate
We’ll have to feed them another line
It’s all a matter of carful timing
You better call the BBC
And tell them that they’re barking up the wrong tree
The truth is out there, don’t you know?
The truth is out there but we don’t need to know it
Tony says enough’s enough
We need to shift the deadline
We need to double up
And take the sting out of the tale
Give them any story and they will derail
The truth is out there, don’t you know?
The truth is out there but they don’t need to show it
The car is here let’s take a ride
As Tony knows a place where we can hide
Until the story’s run its course
Don’t speak to anyone you’ve not broken any laws
And once the hot desk has cooled down
They can set you up for life in another town, yeah
If the truth is out there don’t you know?
The truth is out there but we don’t need to know it
Cuts to the welfare state are competing with a royal baby’s due date
Shamed banker paid a fortune to retire
Goal of the season the kids on fire
The truth is out there, don’t you know?
The truth is out there, and we don’t need to show it
The truth is out there, don’t you know?
The truth is out there but we don’t need to know it
The truth is out there
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Art & Poverty
03:37
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Art & Poverty
Straight out of Brooklyn to the lower east side he sells postcards to Andy Warhol in a fancy Maddison Avenue restaurant
He’s got the wild line cartoonery pan African imagery chasing demons a wild epiphany
The rest is history the genius and the mystery
In a London squat a man dressed like a biscuit tin
A woman holes in her clothes work for the establishment as cultural heroes
Pedalling the same old lines
The ones about rebellion and the ever-changing times
There was a man who took photos of his family stale aired ketchup polaroid anarchy became a real somebody
With a rich patron and a gallery show, social realism a voyeur in vogue, no more beans on toast
Now he’s photographing the homeless in the local underpass they look indifferent unremarkable and they want paying too
But soon the project is abandoned the funding has dried up he returns to the day job teaching in a provincial college where he remains something of a reclusive celebrity,
His finest work a distant memory
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Question Time
Appearing on Question Time
She did OK
Lots of new followers
And plenty to say
Seen at a festival
Drunk in a bar
Deep in the Green Fields
Covered in glitter stars
They say she took off on holiday
Out walking alone
It was business as usual
Messages on her phone
She was royally slaughtered
By some late night DJ
Someone needed to put their arms around her
Tell her everything was OK
Unsolicited email
From a familiar address
And a smear campaign to destroy her good name
Championed by the Daily Express
Did she go into hiding?
She never answered her calls
They just need to draw a line in the sand and move on once and for all
There are bars on the windows
And locks on the doors
And a psychologist called Erica
She challenges my powers of recall
I can’t even remember
The colour of her hair
Or what I was doing on that night she disappeared
I’ve no idea if I was there
Erika’s trying
To do her level best
She thinks I buried the memory
And I need to confess
They think I saw her on Question Time
I never saw her
I don’t even watch it
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Scarecrows
04:29
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Scarecrows
Every scarecrow needs a field
Every smoker needs a light
Every player plays the game
Every boxer feeds the fight
Every drummer needs a beat
Every lover loves to feel the heat
Every showgirl puts on a show
Every tourist needs a place to go
When the days run away like wild horses
And the nights throw shadows at the wall
We’ll be there at the beginning of the rainbow
We’ll be there at the end of the storm
For every article of faith
There’s a suspicious lady in the lake
For every government covering its tracks there a body in a body bag
For every body in a body bag there’s a government covering its tracks
And the old school never went away
And the old school is here to stay
Every scarecrow needs a field
Every smoker a light
Every player plays the game
Every boxer feeds the fight
When the days run away like wild horses
And the nights throw shadows at the wall
We’ll be there at the beginning of the rainbow
We’ll be there at the end of the storm
Every scarecrow needs a field
Every smoker a light
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Man Out of Time
03:41
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Man Out Of Time
Oooh la la la la la la la la
I’m not afraid of Top of the Pops
I’m not afraid of you
I’m just a man a man out of time
That time is 1972
Cause if you knew then what you know now
What would you change, anything?
Glitter and stars spiders from Mars
And the untimely death of a King
Ooh
I’m not afraid of Noggin the Nog
Or of The Singing Ringing Tree
I’m just a man a man out of time
That time is 1973
Cause if you knew then
What you know now
What would you change anything?
Reservoir high reach for the sky teaching the world to sing
Out of tune in the pub
Whilst falling in love
With the girl of your dreams
And the Likely Lads theme it’s everywhere
Oooh la la la la la la la la
I’m not afraid to cheat in exams
I’m not afraid of the law
I’m just a man a man out of time
That time is 1974
I met your mother back in the day
And she took me home for the night
I saw her again just the other week
And she gave me terrible fright
Ooh
I’m not afraid of Lyndsey De Paul
Or of the Seven Seas of Rhye
I’m just a man a man out of time
That time is 1975
Richard Stilgoe Donny and Marie
Bri-nylon sheets and a chain-mail bikini
Is this how you wanna get your kicks
I said roll on1976
And the punks in the park
Scare the children after dark
And the Teds beat em up
For a laugh
La la la la la la la la
I’m a man out of time
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Let Them Take Drugs
04:46
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Let Them Take Drugs
Let them eat chips
Let them drink pop
Let them smoke dope
Let them all off the hook
Let them tune in
Let them turn on
Let them oscillate wildly
Let them go for a song
Let them lose sight
Take their eye off the ball
Let them go soft
Make it a free for all
Let them mess up
Let them break down
Lead them to water
Let them all drown
Let them play god
Let them play dead
Let them get sick
Sick in the head
Let them take drugs
Let them forget
Let them fall down
Let them regret
Let their addiction control their lives
Feed their obsession ignore the supplier
Let them take drugs
Let them take drugs
Let their addiction control their lives
Feed their obsession ignore the supplier
Let them get high
Back in the commune Bobby says Stay Free stay really free
We can build ourselves a new society
Let their addiction control their lives
Feed their obsession ignore the supplier
Wasted people carry no threat
Let them take drugs
Let them take drugs
Let them take drugs
Wasted people carry no threat….
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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK
Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more
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