Economics

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about

I had a strange couple of days in a temporary rehearsal space and 2 or three songs just appeared or got ‘finished’ very quickly. I had a recording session booked soon afterwards and just decided to do the new ones. They weren’t really finished but I thought recording them quickly and moving on was the right thing to do. This is one of the results. As a result the words should perhaps have been either more ‘focussed’ or more weird. More harmonica faking too which I was quite pleased with.

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Economics

Economic growth is the answer
Redistribution of wealth is a crime
Technology will come up with an answer
Before the world soufflés and dies

Everyone can 4 by 4 freely
Everyone can own the road home
Everyone can live in the country
And speak to their videophones

So turn out the Amazon basin
There’s a tin of corned beef as a prize
Concrete the South East of England
Give the Cockneys a surprise

Why take your power from the sunshine?
When you can make a big hole in the ground
Why eat your fill for your dinner
When you can eat till you’re 14 miles wide

No puncture for the economic cycle
No rain on the stock market stalls
Let’s hope the weather holds for the arms fayre
‘Cause we all love injustice and war

And the last tree that stood on Easter Island
Was cut down by a modern hero
The man that killed the last of the dodos
Was a guru of sustainable growth

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from Illegal Songs, released January 14, 2008
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