Citizen Fish - How To Write Ultimate Protest Songs lyrics

You have to use your imagination To get across the situation You can simplify or overstate To make it easier to relate You can go right over the top With a list of things you want to stop Or you can concentrate on just one wrong And make it easier to sing along But if you say "I don't like this" (Or that or the other in a big long list) Then people write you off as a pessimist Providing no alternatives Or if you decide to simplify And use four-letter words and spit in the sky Then they'll chant the slogans and won't even try To understand the reasons why So perhaps the only way to make clear The views you'd like everyone to hear Is by taking a piece of everyday life And looking at it closer in a different light Let's take an example - the way we eat Sat at the table and it's all so neat Now you can understand that cos that's 'how it's done' And it's probably happened to everyone Having caught the attention you now decide How far to push your thoughts outside There's loads of angles, like dining out The hunger of the old man whose cash ran out The money made by corporations Selling bombs not food to starving nations You see there's a world-wide scope of affiliations Depending how far you wanna stretch imaginations Insert a little optimism now and then Before complaining becomes a trend Repetition defeats the point in the end It numbs imagination till it can't comprehend So walk the line between humour and gloom Amongst the debris there's just enough room To keep your mentality going strong And create some ultimate protest songs