Specifically this song is about a right to work demonstration in the 80's. It's actually a criticism of the socialist workers party, see on this demonstration a bunch of SWP members decided to pick a fight with some posh Eton kids, dragging other people on the demo with them, but these people they were picking a fight with were rugby players, thus quite strong. When it became clear that they were losing the fight the SWP members ran away, leaving other demonstrators in the fight getting battered. The song is from the POV of one of the non-SWP demonstrators who got left in the fight while the SWP ran off.
Hence the lyrics:
"Thought you were smart when you took them on,
But you didnt take a peep in their artillary room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
What a catalyst you turned out to be,
Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea,
Left me standing - like a guilty schoolboy.
We came out of it naturally the worst,
Beaten and bloody and I was sick down my shirt,"
Specifically this song is about a right to work demonstration in the 80's. It's actually a criticism of the socialist workers party, see on this demonstration a bunch of SWP members decided to pick a fight with some posh Eton kids, dragging other people on the demo with them, but these people they were picking a fight with were rugby players, thus quite strong. When it became clear that they were losing the fight the SWP members ran away, leaving other demonstrators in the fight getting battered. The song is from the POV of one of the non-SWP demonstrators who got left in the fight while the SWP ran off.
Hence the lyrics: "Thought you were smart when you took them on, But you didnt take a peep in their artillary room, All that rugby puts hairs on your chest, What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
What a catalyst you turned out to be, Loaded the guns then you run off home for your tea, Left me standing - like a guilty schoolboy.
We came out of it naturally the worst, Beaten and bloody and I was sick down my shirt,"
@Thatgirl555 That's explained a lot!
@Thatgirl555 That's explained a lot!