20th CENTURY INERTIA
© Trev Teasdel Coventry May / June 1975
In Romania the divorce rate dropped.
Nijinsky only lived when he danced.
Marriage still in vogue with the young.
Boxing tonight – Freud vs Jung.
Marriage still in vogue with the young.
Boxing tonight – Freud vs Jung.
If you don’t push then you’ll get shoved.
Having fun in the tunnel of love.
One is one’s own enemy and friend.
Van Gough cried “Misery will never end“
Having fun in the tunnel of love.
One is one’s own enemy and friend.
Van Gough cried “Misery will never end“
Bridge 1
Today someone started another new trend
Cos some of the old ones, they came to an end.
Mankind your slaves are rising against you now.
You treat your women like skivvies
and your workers like slaves.
Now your colonies
won’t bless your myths with Kow Tow.
Today someone started another new trend
Cos some of the old ones, they came to an end.
Mankind your slaves are rising against you now.
You treat your women like skivvies
and your workers like slaves.
Now your colonies
won’t bless your myths with Kow Tow.
Everything you see could be a clue,
To some unsolved mystery.
Newsmen in Trinidad said they’d hung Malcolm X.
Have the prophets really had a glimpse of the text?
To some unsolved mystery.
Newsmen in Trinidad said they’d hung Malcolm X.
Have the prophets really had a glimpse of the text?
Abandoned baby found in a litter bin.
In the backstreets someone threatened to do me in.
Football team didn’t win, goal disallowed.
But then we’re all part of that football crowd!
Football team didn’t win, goal disallowed.
But then we’re all part of that football crowd!
The censors gave life a certificate X.
Supermarkets sell their beans with sex.
The sheer violence that assaults your head.
Whatever would have Chaucer’s pilgrims have said.
Supermarkets sell their beans with sex.
The sheer violence that assaults your head.
Whatever would have Chaucer’s pilgrims have said.
Bridge 2
Can u imagine Shakespeare’s three weird sisters
Shopping for Tampax in Marks and Blisters.
Ruthless Macbeth and an American Senator.
Bow down to the latest Charismatic Kings
Can u imagine Shakespeare’s three weird sisters
Shopping for Tampax in Marks and Blisters.
Ruthless Macbeth and an American Senator.
Bow down to the latest Charismatic Kings
Tourists tell us that ‘England Swings’
Can’t afford to oil the pendulum swings.
She mixes cold intellectuality
with red-hot sexuality.
with red-hot sexuality.
You should have seen her body move
Still made sure her mind improved.
Pondering Weber’s theories of Bureaucracy
Wondering what life would have been like
Wondering what life would have been like
under the Chinese Literati.
Don’t mind me I’m just expounding ideas
that caused some 20th Century tears.
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A 2nd cut up, David Bowie style, using my Sociology college and books and magazines. s
that caused some 20th Century tears.
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A 2nd cut up, David Bowie style, using my Sociology college and books and magazines. s
20th Century Inertia by Trev Teasdel
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