Ian Anderson - Commons Brawl lyrics

All right and honorable gentlemen And lady, too Will kindly try to restrain themselves In derring-do As verbal hard graffiti flies And echoes wall to wall Our precious model of democracy It's the House of Commons brawl One member from some dark mill town Furious did cry As spittle frothed on folded chin To damn the lie Let's serve this brief amidst the rush Of who's allowed catcalls Let's finish this right here and now At the House of Commons brawl Kick, punch went the government As with jackets off they charged heaven-bent Scratch, gouge went the other side As the party firmly did divide Another day in the lives of those Who would guide us through It follows perhaps that we should By their example do But there again I think for less Poor Guy went to the wall The wrong house but the right idea To end the Commons brawl