Who bummed the frisco hippie’s trip
While talking to Joan Didion?
With weird white lipstick on their lips
Slouching towards Bethlehem 
Who had to go and tell the cops
On Wilhelm Reich and his orgasm?
Who fucked poor Gazza’s cartilage up?
The ghosts of Wembley Stadium 

Now Robespierre’s poor Supreme Being
Is meat beneath the guillotine
And Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem
Are costumes worn on Halloween
Rimbaud shoots words through his bloodstream
He gave it up at seventeen
What happened to the techno dream
Schneider - Hutter - man machine?

Now that you’ve broken utopia’s spine
Let’s have a look inside

A singer sings of love and hate
But his accountant let him down
Nye Bevan built the welfare state
Yeah nice one Nye, see you around
And Walter Gropius and his mates
Will build a complete concrete town
They find it hard to concentrate 
With all those buildings falling down

The kosmonauts are cold and bored
Laika howls in outer space
God knows what we were looking for
The frontiers of inner space
There’s always someone at my door
Some Porlock wanker on my case 
Fucked it off with Thomas More
Socialism with a monkey’s face

Socialism With A Monkey's Face

Idle Tigers