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Time For Truth Lyrics
What you trying to say that haven't tried to say before
You're just another red balloon with a lot of hot gass
Why don't you fuck off?
And you think you've got it worked out
And you think you've got it made
And you trying to play the hero
But you never walk home in the dark
I think it's time for truth
And the truth is you've lost uncle Jimmy
Admit your failure and decline with honour while you can
And you think you've got it sussed out
And you think that we're brain washed
And you're trying for a police state
So you can rule our body and minds
What ever happend to the great empire?
You bastards haved turned it into manure
Time for the young to stick together now
I bet you sleep at night with silk sheets and a clean mind
While killers roam the streets in numbers dressed in blue
And you're trying to hide it from us
But you know what I mean
Bring forward those six pigs
We wanna see them swing sod high
You're just another red balloon with a lot of hot gass
Why don't you fuck off?
And you think you've got it worked out
And you think you've got it made
And you trying to play the hero
But you never walk home in the dark
I think it's time for truth
And the truth is you've lost uncle Jimmy
Admit your failure and decline with honour while you can
And you think you've got it sussed out
And you think that we're brain washed
And you're trying for a police state
So you can rule our body and minds
What ever happend to the great empire?
You bastards haved turned it into manure
Time for the young to stick together now
I bet you sleep at night with silk sheets and a clean mind
While killers roam the streets in numbers dressed in blue
And you're trying to hide it from us
But you know what I mean
Bring forward those six pigs
We wanna see them swing sod high
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A two fingered salute to all arrogant, oik lefties
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with...
@Backhander This certainly contains an attack on the then leader of the Labour Party, James Callaghan “uncle Jimmy”- but to consider him a ‘lefty’ is ignoring the facts. Callaghan was establishment through and through; he led an attack on trade unions and other gains of the left (like progressive education) and introduced monetarist policies even before Thatcher. He was very much opposed by the left. The main gist of the song is an attack on the police and the shocking way the murder of Liddel Towers by Northumbria police was handled. The fact that Paul Weller has always identified with the political left indicates that attempts to see this as a simplistic anti-left lyric is bizarre. It is anti-police and anti-establishment.
No comments?! What the hell!
I know Uncle Jimmy is the prime minister at that time James Callaghan but what or who are the six pigs he wants to see swing so high ?