The Day After The Revolution Lyrics

Lyric discussion by twoseventwo 

Cover art for The Day After The Revolution lyrics by Pulp

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that this is really an amazingly sarcastic dig at New Labour and the UK election of 1997, or at least that that was one of several intended interpretations. This was from the same period during which Jarvis wrote "Cocaine Socialism", after all. That the last line is "irony is over" is telling.