Mud Sun - Dispatches lyrics

These dispatches are just a form of Democratic journalistic action In the midst of war and civil clashes We swarm into the fracas And sort out the different factions And report it back to the Court of public opinion with dispa**ion This is chapter six of Baba's dispatches From the British axis And I'm sad to report that the government's Been acting every bit as fascist As it has ever since the tragic Olympic ma**acre last year Which left its victims in a pile of crisp ashes And yet special mention must be made Of the unstructured nature of the resistance To the British big brother state Something strange is happening On England's gray streets But there's no mystery Its name is "Dizraeli" Instead of the leadership they need To get political prisoners of the state freed And reinstate civil liberties And eliminate the wage freeze And get the laws changed So they can live, work and play in peace Dizraeli attacks anything even remotely mainstream Unable, it seems, to discriminate between What's real and what's make believe I mean Let's face it While his nation is decimated by the politics of hatred Dizraeli's response consists of "Let's get naked!" As if there were no difference Between clothes and prisons Cause uh "They're both restrictive and they're both 'systems' And all systems are sinister So we need a world with no systems No governments and no citizens!" That's the goal of his whole coalition So now the British are trapped in the midst of this Clash between militant fascists and idiot anarchists And instead of a real leader like Mandela The rebels here are wasting their efforts On guerrilla theatre It's a revolutionary special feature With concession pricing And I know it's tantalizing When you feel your anger rising To believe you can fight the system by vandalizing Symbols of advertising But you can't Is that surprising? Cause the biggest rebels get paid the highest salaries And Banksy paintings hang at the finest galleries Defiance is just another survival strategy Just like working nine to five to feed your family This wasted insurrection is based on a basic misconception Dizraeli sees capitalism as an agent of oppression But what he calls 'The System' is mainly competition It's businesses and political parties in opposition And musician's competing for fans who want to listen And writers have compositions And publishers want to print them And so, what's the problem with it? Injustice is caused by limited budgets And flaws in the structures of laws And laws are changed by democratic action And not by waving your arms around in erratic fashion But Dizraeli does have the charismatic attraction That a political leader needs to succeed If only he understood what civil disobedience means He could beat this regime And get a mandate for change Instead of just entertaining his fan base And obsessing over advertising and brand names He could transform the whole political landscape If his message wasn't always drowning beneath His symbolic dissidence and clowning speech And middle fingers Pointed in the direction of Downing street At least he's running his insurrection non-violently So for all those watching hopefully from overseas There's still a chance this man Will quit smoking dope and lead The people of England out of this broken dream But until then I'm afraid I can see no relief In sight End of dispatch Go in peace