No Pasaran!

No Pasaran!

Human detritus lining our streets harassed by officials plodding their beats,

Public servants serve none but themselves with unemployed talent stacking shop shelves,

Lies on TV and lies in the rags as we numb the fear with more whiskey and fags,

To consume more of this or own more of that life's' meaning reduced to tit for tat.

Young men fly off to far away climes to answer the call to commit far away crimes,

Yes Jihadi John is off again to take out his rage and share out his pain,

Hate condemns hate war punishes war violence justifies violence and just creates more,

Plastic bags and micro-beads choke marine life on pacific seas,

Dirty crude oil and fracking the land with corrupt hearts and minds go hand in hand.

We all cross our fingers hope and pray that we won't be around on that awful day,

Believe if it helps that Messiahs will come to whisk you away as you are better than some,

Believe if you want that our future is set and you have no duty to shape it as yet,

Go bury your talents and hide your true light ignore the hard questions and run from the fight.

But this world is ours and this life is yours this is your fight and this is our cause,

No more the manipulation of the masses, no more distinction between meaningless classes,

No more lies masquerading as truth or cynical ambitions exploiting the youth,

No more tasered responses to peaceful protests nor censoring voices that stand out from the rest,

An end to this madness lets all choose to be sane not ignore past mistakes just to make them again.