Never Gonna Happen

from Above The Static by The Bar Stool Preachers

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I took the 49 night bus back across town,
Jumped off where red sky meets the grey walls.
A fascist on the shop's radio saying racism just aint racist any more.

But I know my land.
Histories of blood etched with truth on my path.
And in this town, keeping a level head and an open heart,
Don't seem to be the place that most people start.

Billy Bragg don't play on radio 1. Not any more.
Billy Bragg don't play on radio 1.

By now!
You should've seen the pattern.
Anything you want is never gonna happen.
Do you sit back,
And accept the fact that,
Anything you want is never gonna happen?

So alone, so apart, so wrapped up in guilt.
They distracted you with headlines so you never knew how you felt.
They taught you to hate.
To be proud of an empire you didn't create.
A global blueprint for a neo-fascist state.

It's the immigrants!
Scream the expats.
From some sunny beach in Spain.
They moved out for a last ditch effort of some fun.
Whilst others run from bullets like rain.
Johnny Foreigner!
Johnny Foreigner!
Johnny Foreigner!
They all cry.

The prime minister.
Pleased to meet ya.
I'm sure he's a real nice yeah whatever.

By now!
You should've seen the pattern.
Anything you want is never gonna happen.
Do you sit back,
And accept the fact that,
Anything you want is never gonna happen?

The American Dream is a complex, Russia oppresses.
Saudi Arabia is confused with strict rules and rich dresses.
Our lungs are on fire, way down in Brazil.
We sell the second world the medicines that made us most ill.
The petrol. The oil. The need to compete.
The trickle down lies.
The hollow foods that we eat.
Did you hear Samoa's obese?
There's McDonald's in Cuba.
The working class is automated.
Be a robot. Or an Über.

You picked the lesser of two evils.
When you could've picked freedom.
You picked the lesser of two evils.
Can you hear it?
Our time has come.

By now!
You should've seen the pattern.
Anything you want is never gonna happen.
So do you sit back,
And just accept the fact that...
Anything you want is never gonna happen!?

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from Above The Static, released March 31, 2023

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