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The lords and ladies pass a ruling
That sons and girls go hand in land
From good stock and the best breeding
Paid for by the servile class
Who have been told all lie in state
To bow down forth and face their fate
It's so easy.
So, so easy
All righteousness did build thy arrow
To shoot it straight into their lies
Who would expect the mighty sparrow
Could rid our world of all their kind?
Rising up and taking back
The property of every man
Oh it's easy.
So, so easy
Rising up to break this thing
From family trees the dukes do swing
Just one blow to scratch the itch
The law's made for and by the rich
It would be easy.
So, so easy.
That sons and girls go hand in land
From good stock and the best breeding
Paid for by the servile class
Who have been told all lie in state
To bow down forth and face their fate
It's so easy.
So, so easy
To shoot it straight into their lies
Who would expect the mighty sparrow
Could rid our world of all their kind?
The property of every man
Oh it's easy.
So, so easy
From family trees the dukes do swing
Just one blow to scratch the itch
The law's made for and by the rich
It would be easy.
So, so easy.
Song Info
Submitted by
redmax On Dec 16, 2001
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Paul Weller shouts to the bottom (not top!) this time, telling the servile class they can revolt, in a socialist anthem that is beautifully composed. It shoots an arrow through both classism/elitism and capitalism, attacking the principles of inheritance, which assures the criticized state, can retain its grip.
The lyrics imply a violent revolution is necessary (mightiest arrow ...to shoot ....to rid of all world of their kind....just one blow...), a message that certainly not without its own criticism.
I listen to this song alone, and sing along, even if I don't agree with its angry advice on how to level the playing field.
What or who is the mighty sparrow could make a difference in the interpretation of this song. Who or what is the mighty sparrow?
Is Weller denouncing Western conventions and mustering a social revolution or simply making a delineation of despair.
In other words our fate socio-politically is demise because we need to transcend this existence which has destined us to destroy ourselves.
I believe the mighty sparrow is Jesus Christ whom God has appointed to care for all the sparrows likewise the subjects of His kingdom. The allusion being the world system will fail us greatly if we depend on it. However, Christ came to rid us of the oppression of statism and rid our world that we seem to continually make a mess of.
he has a quote from Marat of the Jacobins on the album liner so this song to me would be a reference to the French and their uprising to tear that whole racket down - and the fact that it was relatively quick and easy. It serves as an inspiration to future kingdoms locked in classist suboordination