Charlie Gilmour

Hanging from a flag on the Cenotaph

Someone took a photograph

A boy with a certain poetic face

was a good excuse to make a case

for disgrace

for he is of rock royalty dynasty

in his privilege

how dare he!

But arent poets and rock stars supposed to make a stand?
Arent they the best and most romantic symbols of this land?

All our nations pride was on the line

the bones and blood and death enshrined

in a monument to the glorious dead

yes, its so glorious to be dead

two entire generations of brave young men

gloriously dead

how sad, that after all of that

the Nazis havent gone away
They live!
their ethos spread to make more dead
and fight another day

today they're creating a third

for the royalty who would cut off your head

for saying this, two hundred years ago, absurd

if you dared speak out against their warmongering waste

their own minds cut off from conscience, reality or taste
maintaining their comfortable warlike status quo
arranging wars, well, they don't have to go

to war, there's no real threat from anyone - just war as usual, war, war war

but charlie gilmour

swung a bin at the bastards

whatever whoever the son
or the situation,
[situationist]
(shame he missed)

and that takes courage

even so

Vive la revolution!

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The Situationists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International