The Great British Mistake — текст песни (Adverts)

The Great British Mistake (written 2/78)
The Great British Mistake was looking for a way out, was getting
complacent, not noticing the pulse was racing - the mistake was fighting
the change, was staying the same. It couldn`t adapt so it couldn`t survive,
something had to give, the people take a downhill slide into the gloom,
into the dark recesses of their minds.
I swoop over your city like a bird
I climb the high branches and observe
Into the mouth, into the soul
I cast a shadow that swallows you whole
I sweep, I climb, I suck, I swallow you whole
Bring out the drip-feed, they`re losing their world, they`re losing their hard
boys and magazine girls, advert illegal, TV as outlaw, motive as spell.
They`ll see the books burn, they`ll be 451, it`s people against things and
not against each other, out of the pre-pack, into the fear, into themselves.
They`re the great British mistake - the genie`s out the bottle, call in the
magician, they didn`t mean to free him, devil behind him, devil in the
mirror, chained to the right hands. They`re the great British mistake -
they`ll have to come to terms now, they`ll take it out somehow, they`ll
blame it all on something. The Great British Mistake - when will it be over?
How can they avoid it?
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