Lyrics - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards by Bragg Billy

It may have been
Camelot for
Jack and
Jacqueline
But on the
Che
Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel
Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn her
That the
Third
World is just around the corner
In the
Soviet
Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That
Dr
Robert
Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle
In the
Cheese
Pavilion and the only noise
I hear
Is the sound of people stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
Mixing
Pop and
Politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the
Great
Leap
Forwards
Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the
Great
Leap
Forwards
One leap forwards, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist
I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From
Top of the
Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understands
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may
The
Revolution is just a t-shirt away

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