Line them all up on one side
Let me see the whites of their eyes
There might be no other way
Work yourself into an early-
grave the situation is
Do it for the wife and kids
Trample on your fellow man
Commit class suicide and be a busdriver

Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver

Inspectors are watching me
Well, not really, but I think you can see-
single mothers are the enemy
and don't come crying at me about your
age or disability
Damn right this is my company
Don't care if you're Vincent Kompany
No such thing as a free ride with this busdriver

Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver

Explore the possibilities
Collaborate with poverty police
Illegals not welcome here
Self divide and rule another year
But they don't pay me well
And my career they buy and sell
The men in suits are on the prowl
They got me driving backwards
I'm a busdriver

Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver

Recession in this day and age
is such a lonely place to be
Don't dare to look down
Don't dare look into the future
There's no future left for you and me

Depression crawling like a spider
into everything you see
But do homeless immigrants and students
run this grim economy? 
Really?

Line them all up on one side
Let me see the whites of their eyes
There might be no other way
Work yourself into an early-
grave the situation is
Do it for the wife and kids
Trample on your fellow man
Commit class suicide and be a busdriver

Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver
Be a busdriver

Busdriver

Death To Nostalgia

Everything is Possible

The Shireens are the misappropriated sounds of the Middle East in a Northern rock band. Think the Clash kidnapping the RNCM's best jazz musicians and forcing them to dig tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Described as 'desert punk' by those who underestimate the musicians of the Sahara and who clearly know nothing about punk, The Shireens are the musical internationalists of the recession era.

Manchester

Louis Brehony
Arron Bell
Charlie Garson