Second Golden Age of Protest

from Illegal Songs by John Parkes

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about

I have decided in my modest way that I am the future of protest music - or at least the man who has reinvented it - and everyone else is its past or somehow rubbish or corrupted in some way - JP announces himself as the new Bob Dylan, has a pop at the competition and then explains that he’s been distracted and isn’t going to carry it through after all. So there (you’ll be seeing that phrase again if you’re concentrating). The word ‘vagina’ should keep it off the radio too.

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Second Golden Age of Protest

A second golden age of protest, acoustic revolution time
The folks and the business are going to listen, where there is darkness I will shine
Woody killed Fascists with his guitar, Donovan was sweet but not so sure
Melanie and Joni they got personal, I don’t know what happened to that Bobby D

Oh, it was a long time ago
Oh, some people never let go
Oh, here I stand, sorting out the world again

I hear righteous cries of voices, crying for justice in the past
And if 1965 is the last year of your music’s life…retrospectives pickled in wine / whine
Some will say the President is evil, say it straight and artlessly
Most still say that their sweet baby left them, she’s well out of it it seems to me

Oh, you can sense it I see
Oh, need a leader? - That’s me
Oh, no-one’s keener to clean up the government

My how I cry for your vagina, but I can’t listen to your song
Seems you sell yourself to ego, fame or some man’s wealth
Surely there must be something you have to say?
The boys I don’t pay them much attention, it’s my loss I’m sure that’s true
While they’re out choosing moisturiser, what’s a miserable twat to do?

Oh, I been led well astray
Oh, I got lost on my way
Oh, now it’s my mission – to stiffen up the hippy girls
- and that’s all

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from Illegal Songs, released January 14, 2008
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