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Billy Bragg lyrics
The HomeFront lyrics
Father mowsthe lawn and Mother peels the potatoes
Grandma lays the table alone
And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier
In this Holy of Holies, the Home
And from the TV an unwatched voice
Suggests the answer is to plant more trees
The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers
And the voice of the people says more salt please
Mother shakesher head and reads aloud from the newspaper
As Father puts another lock on the door
And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in
While chatting with the wife beater next door
If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime
Home truths are easily missed
Something that every football fan knows
It only takes five fingers to form a fist
And whenit rains here It rains so hard
But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow
I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow
The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence
From this family life sentence
Mother seesbut does not read the peeling posters
And can't believe that there's a world to be won
But in the public schools and in the public houses
The Battle of Britain goes on
The constantpromise of jam tomorrow
Is the New Breed's litany and verse
If it takes another war to fill the churches of England
Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth
Mother fightsthe tears and Father, his sense of outrage
And attempts to justify the sacrifice
To pass their creed down to another generation
'Anything for the quiet life'
In the Land of a Thousand Doses
Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
Our place in History is as
clock watchers, old timers, window shoppers.
Other Billy Bragg lyrics:
The Internationale lyrics
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night lyrics
The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions lyrics
Blake's Jerusalem lyrics
Nicaragua Nicaraguita lyrics
The Red Flag lyrics
My Youngest Son Came Home Today lyrics
Moving The Goalposts lyrics
Everywhere lyrics
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood lyrics
Trust lyrics
God's Footballer lyrics
The Few lyrics
Mother Of The Bride lyrics
Tank Park Salute lyrics
Wish You Were Her lyrics
From Red To Blue lyrics
Upfield lyrics
Everybody loves you babe lyrics
Sugardaddy lyrics
A Pict Song lyrics
Brickbat lyrics
Northern Industrial Town lyrics
The Fourteenth Of February lyrics
Goalhanger lyrics
Walt Whitman's Niece lyrics
Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key lyrics
Birds And Ships lyrics
Hoodoo Voodoo lyrics
She Came Along To Me lyrics
At My Window Sad And Lonely lyrics
Ingrid Bergman lyrics
Christ For President lyrics
I Guess I Planted lyrics
One By One lyrics
Eisler On The Go lyrics
Hesitating Beauty lyrics
Another Man's Done Gone lyrics
Airline To Heaven lyrics
Feed Of Man lyrics
Hot Rod Hotel lyrics
I Was Born lyrics
Secret Of The Sea lyrics
Stetson Kennedy lyrics
Remember The Mountain Bed lyrics
Blood Of The Lamb lyrics
Aginst Th' Law lyrics
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again lyrics
Meanest Man lyrics
Black Wind Blowing lyrics
Someday, Some Morning, Sometime lyrics
It Says Here lyrics
Love Gets Dangerous lyrics
The Myth Of Trust lyrics
From A Vauxhall Velox lyrics
The Saturday Boy lyrics
Island Of No Return lyrics
Like Soldiers Do lyrics
This Guitar Says Sorry lyrics
Strange Things Happen lyrics
The Milkman Of Human Kindness lyrics
Richard lyrics
New England lyrics
The Man in The Iron Mask lyrics
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty lyrics
Lovers Town Revisited lyrics
Accident Waiting To Happen lyrics
A Lover Sings lyrics
Body Of Water lyrics
Cindy Of A Thousand Lives lyrics
MBH lyrics
North Sea Bubble lyrics
Ontario, Quebec And Me lyrics
Rumours Of War lyrics
Sexuality lyrics
Ship In My Harbour lyrics
St Swithin's Day lyrics
Sulk lyrics
To Have And To Have Not lyrics
Greetings To The New Brunette (Shirley) lyrics
Train, Train lyrics
The Marriage lyrics
Ideology lyrics
Levi Stubbs' Tears lyrics
Honey I'm A Big Boy Now lyrics
There Is Power In A Union lyrics
Help Save The Youth Of America lyrics
Wishing The Days Away lyrics
The Passion lyrics
The Warmest Room lyrics
She's Got A New Spell lyrics
Must I Paint You A Picture lyrics
Tender Comrade lyrics
The Price I Pay lyrics
Little Time Bomb lyrics
Rotting On Remand lyrics
Valentine's Day Is Over lyrics
Life With The Lions lyrics
The Only One lyrics
The Short Answer lyrics
Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards lyrics
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