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billvon

In honor of the new Speakers Corner

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. . . is an old song from what I consider Dire Straits' best album:



I go down to Speaker's Corner and I'm thunderstruck
they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks!
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
They got a protest singer, he's singing a protest song
He says "they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
they wanna have a war to keep their factories
they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
They're pointing out the enemy, they keep you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
they give you Rue Brittania, gassy beer, page three
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease"

Meanwhile the first Jesus says "I'll cure it soon
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons"
The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?

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