Punk rocker unrepentant

Why the fuck should I be?

Lose the resentment?

Have all the social jokes 

Become a real hilarity?

Yes I see it all the time.

 

Because they’re back!

But so are we.

We never left.

Here’s the litany of lies

Leading us to hang

 

Miners sorry for missing the truth.

Sorry Maggie, if it wasn’t for us 

You wouldn’t have to pay 

All that police overtime. 

But times were hard 

so its nice you looked after them.

 

Another…. Fighting racism.

friendly horses charging at people

in exchange for carrots and hay.

Horses earning more in carrots 

then striking miners earned in a month. 

 

Another…. Blair Peach, an innocent man

Came over from New Zealand

He was a teacher, not a preacher

But he was smacked on the head

And so became dead.

 

People taken, humans as marionettes for the rich.

Plaything, playtime, postured people.

Bastards in BMW’s sucking at the Tory nipple.

Peoples blood the national tipple. 

ATOS saying yer not a cripple.

 

And why they’ll lose?

Because they don’t know

What a person is

What a real life is

What real people are….

What we are.

 

….so the message that they all forgot

From a bed in Strummerville.

The message to the haves and the have nots

Ordinary words to lead us on

Simple words To lead us from

Little mouse trails till bloods last rave

 

Joe spinning in his Strummerville grave.

Always looking for those to save

Gravelled voice. calls out from within the coffin

That Strummer voice. “Without people your nothin’”