Culture Protest

 

You been talking 'bout year 2008, it's just talk, talk, talk and it's far too late
To start things which should have been done long time ago.
What I hear from people I meet is: you don't give a damn for the man on the street
Why won't you ask us? We can tell you the answer, you know!
First bad call was the Fourth Dis-grace: you got left with egg on your face
And the Tramline? Hell! Who wants to go to Kirby???!!
And the City Centre? Aaaaaahh, frig it: or better still, let's Big Dig it
One big car park from Toxteth toWest Derby .....
                (plenty of jobs for the boys - the traffic wardens, that is ....)

You been talking 'bout year 2008, it's just talk, talk, talk and it's far too late
To start things which should have been done long time ago.
What I hear from people I meet is: you don't give a damn for the man on the street
Why won't you ask us? We can tell you the answer, you know!
First bad call was the Fourth Dis-grace: you got left with egg on your face
And the Tramline? Hell! Who wants to go to Kirby???!!
And the City Centre? Aaaaaahh, frig it: or better still, let's Big Dig it
One big car park from Toxteth toWest Derby .....
                (plenty of jobs for the boys - the traffic wardens, that is ....)

When the contract's made and the deal is signed, any work for the local lad to find?
No chance!!     (pause)    No chance at all for you
Some Aussie bint's gonna oversee yer - though she ain't yet got a work visa
Youse Scousers? Yiz can sign on down the brew
Farm the work out to the Mankies, Geordies, Indians or Sri Lankis
They'll work harder: and they'll take the pay we say they're due
Listed buildings? Knock ‘em down! Build more car parks all over town
You'll take more (with far less fuss) from a car park than ever you'll get from a bus
                (public transport's a joke at the best of times)

When the contract's made and the deal is signed, any work for the local lad to find?
No chance!!     (pause)    No chance at all for you
Some Aussie bint's gonna oversee yer - though she ain't yet got a work visa
Youse Scousers? Yiz can sign on down the brew
Farm the work out to the Mankies, Geordies, Indians or Sri Lankis
They'll work harder: and they'll take the pay we say they're due
Listed buildings? Knock ‘em down! Build more car parks all over town
You'll take more (with far less fuss) from a car park than ever you'll get from a bus
                (public transport's a joke at the best of times)

When King John granted Liverpool's charter eight hundred years ago
He couldn't have known just what he'd started, or how the town would grow
How Indians, Paddys, Pakistanis, Jamaicans, Poles and Turks
Would come here in their hundreds - thousands! - because they wanted work
Now you brag and boast of "The World in One City"
Draw plan after plan and it all looks pretty
But the Man in the Street could tell you what you should do
(and that's the main point of these talking blues)
You'd better stop .... look around.... no time for your nineteenth nervous breakdown
Listen .. do you wanna know a secret? ....... folk with some brains living in this town
Ask us what we think .... Why won't you ask us what we think? ....║:why won't you :║
                                                                                                  (rpt & fade)