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Married To A Lazy Lover Lyrics
sack the maid - put her in chains until
she say's that it's painless and I
couldn't care less
twenty years
married to a lazy lover
twenty years
mixing alcohol and downers
sack the maid
for dealing in state propoganda
sack the state
what would your common lover do
beat the daylights out of you?
it's a national threat
married to a lazy lover
against the west
married to a lazy lover
i could teach him how to drink
but he just threw up in the sink
the man from the ministy
didn't have to say
that your lover's on the shelf
would he bite the bit
or split my lip?
anyway this marriage is annulled
she say's that it's painless and I
couldn't care less
married to a lazy lover
twenty years
mixing alcohol and downers
sack the maid
for dealing in state propoganda
sack the state
beat the daylights out of you?
it's a national threat
married to a lazy lover
against the west
married to a lazy lover
i could teach him how to drink
but he just threw up in the sink
didn't have to say
that your lover's on the shelf
would he bite the bit
or split my lip?
anyway this marriage is annulled
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As with most works of lyrical genius, it is multilayered in meaning. This song fascinates me. I speculate this is an allegory of domestic violence and the human condition to dominate or be dominated, and from the lyrics "against the west" & "sack the maid - for dealing in state propaganda", I discern it is representing a commentary of the situation of the national politic either: socialist/radical leftist sympathy of the \'lazy lover\' in a loveless marriage, or the opposite in political terms, such as the post-communist break-up of Russia (there is infact an Eastern European feel to the song), or maybe the crushing of Saddam\'s tin-pot dictatorship in Iraq, for which the lyric at the end "a Jewish prince is on a hill" is part\'ly interesting. The maid (the State) is in chains and is resigned to being subjugated by the powerful vested interests of the dominant partner of fully-liberated, unrestrained capitalism (although would get knocked about by any common lover - any other alternative \'actor\' - such is the human condition). The declaration is made that the maid (the state) should be sacked and stripped away for "dealing in state propaganda". The state must be stripped away to avail the constant exigency of unbridled capitalist encroachment to tap into the assets of the state (for eg. in the UK, the NHS)