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well you can tell by the way i move my feet that i'm a genuine insurrectionary - it's a kind of nervous shuffle that contrasts so well with bolshevik bravado. and you can tell by the way i raise my hand - not in a fist but for a question. take out your manifestos and then put them away. i implore you to ignore every word i say. and if my status as a figure on a stage implies authority, i hope my caution and my age belies my humility, and will to take my rage and try to turn myself into a one-man landslide. let's kick it off with a leafleting campaign and follow it up with some public meetings, pressing flesh and kissing babies as i smile and promise things are getting better. i am the party, the apparatchik and the grey bureaucracy. i am the secret police, manufacturing a constituency that doesn't answer back. i found these words in my bedroom underneath old magazines. and i found this voice in my record collection - distorting tapes kicked analysis awake. you found this song but you didn't question - swallowed the sleeve but didn't see my tongue inside my cheek. i am the politburo, but i am the velvet revolution, a budapest kick from fifty-six and so: let's all go hand in hand to the local polling station and make our own categories, then vote for ourselves.
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I Am the Party Lyrics as written by Cameron David Dean Benjamin Russell Erring Dawson
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"Well you can tell by the way I move my feet that I’m a genuine insurrectionary. It’s a kind of nervous shuffle that contrasts so well with Bolshevik bravado."
All it takes in Britain to be a political revolutionary is small, anxious movments, since there is so little passionate politicism. Compare that to the rallying calls of Bolsheviks in 1917s communist Russia, it's nothing.
"And you can tell by the way I raise my hand - not in a fist but for a question."
Also, you can tell I'm a rebel in British politicism since I ask a questions. Compare this to being a rebel in communist Russia.
"Take out your manifestos and then put them away. I implore you to ignore every word I say."
These manifestos are just formalities, the ideas and ideals they contain arn't politically important anymore. Infact, I'd prefer you (a citizen) to ignore this part of politics altogether.
"And if my status as a figure on a stage implies authority, I hope my caution and my age belies my humility"
If you're silly enough to fall under my authority purely because I'm in a political position then It's no stretch to hope you won't read into my real intent, instead seeing my appearance and basing opinions on that...
"And will to take my rage and try to turn myself into a one-man landslide."
... and from this, I'll take my real, underlying passion for power and abuse my personal image to win power (as opposed to using the party's ideals to appeal to voters.)
Rest is a lot more simple.