Gold Against The Soul Lyrics
Its about how greed can destroy someones true moral values.
The second verse is almost certainly about the 1984 miner's strike.
"It's an apocalyptic vision of Britain from the Thatcher years to the 'caring Nineties'. People got so selfish in the Eighties. To me, Roy Lynk (the right-wing leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers) was the archetypal Eighties person. He probably thought he was doing people good - but he's a class traitor. I hope that his children grow up to realise that. The media thinks that if you're working class, you've got to be one of two stereotypes - either tipping your cap to your employer, or a drug fiend permanently bombed out your skull. You've got to be a lager lout, or an effete Morrissey fan who never does anything. But working class people can be violent and sensitive." (Richey James)
'Rock and roll has a conscience'
Confounding line. Just them perhaps? They feel they are the only ones in society who are able to be honest, and then only in their music?