Lyrics - North Sea Bubble by Billy Bragg

I went out drinking with
Thomas
Paine
He said that all revolutions are not the same
They are as different as the cultures
That gave them birth
For no one idea
Can solve every problem on
Earth
So don't expect it al to happen
In some prophesized political fashion
For people are different
And so are nations
You can borrow ideas
But you can't borrow situations
In
Leningrad the people say
Perestroika can be explain this way
The people who told us
That two and two is ten
Are now trying to tell us
That two and two is five
We're living in a
North
Sea
Bubble
We're trying to spend our way out of trouble
You keep buying these things but you don't need them
But as long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom
My
American friends don't know what to do
But they'll wait a long time for a
Beverley
Hills coup
War!
What is it good for
It's good fo business

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