Joe Gibb - I Am The Party lyrics

Well you can tell by the way I move my feet that I'm a genuine insurrectionary It's a kind of nervous shuffle that contrasts so well with Bolshevik bravado And you can tell by the way I raise my hand, not in a fist but for a question Take out your manifestos and then put them away I implore you to ignore every word I say And if my status as a figure on a stage implies authority I hope my caution and my age belies my humility And will to take my rage and try to turn myself into a one-man landslide Let's kick it off with a leafleting campaign And follow it up with some public meetings Pressing flesh and kissing babies as I smile And promise things are getting better I am the party The apparatchik and the grey bureaucracy I am the secret police Manufacturing a constituency that doesn't answer back I found these words in my bedroom underneath old magazines And I found this voice in my record collection Distorting tapes kicked an*lysis awake You found this song but you didn't question Swallowed the sleeve but didn't see my tongue inside my cheek I am the politburo I am the velvet revolution A Budapest kick from fifty-six and so Let's all go hand in hand to the local polling station And make our own categories then vote for ourselves