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The Leader Lyrics
Atom secrets, secret leaflet
Have the boys found the leak yet?
The molehill sets the wheel in motion
His downfall picks up locomotion
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
The leader's wife takes a government car
In the dark to meet her minister
But the leader never leaves his door ajar
As he swings his whip from the Boer War
He wore a leather mask for his dinner guests
Totally nude and with deep respect
Proposed a toast to the votes he gets
The feeling of power and the thought of sex!
Now the girl let the fat man touch her
Vodka fumes and the feel of a vulture
The driver waited in the embassy car
The fat man's trap was set for capture
So the girl let the thin man touch her
Mixing questions, drunken laughter
The ministry car was waiting there
A minister knows his own affair
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
Have the boys found the leak yet?
The molehill sets the wheel in motion
His downfall picks up locomotion
In the dark to meet her minister
But the leader never leaves his door ajar
As he swings his whip from the Boer War
Totally nude and with deep respect
Proposed a toast to the votes he gets
The feeling of power and the thought of sex!
Vodka fumes and the feel of a vulture
The driver waited in the embassy car
The fat man's trap was set for capture
So the girl let the thin man touch her
Mixing questions, drunken laughter
The ministry car was waiting there
A minister knows his own affair
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"The people must have something good to read on a Sunday"
Joe Jackson made similar commentary in his song "Sunday papers" and it's just as true. This song is just better...
God bless Rupert Murdoch...?
I don't know about elsewhere, but where I come from the sunday paper's are filled with tabloid nonsense. Perhaps this song is about the scandals that take place to 'give us something good to read on Sunday'.
""The Leader" has some amusing lyrics about the Profumo scandal."
(http://www.johnmcferrinmusicreviews.org/clash.htm#sandinista)