{"id":71,"date":"2016-10-05T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/twentieth-century-inertia\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:37:00","slug":"twentieth-century-inertia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/twentieth-century-inertia\/","title":{"rendered":"Twentieth Century Inertia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n20th CENTURY INERTIA <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9 Trev Teasdel Coventry May \/ June 1975<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn Romania the divorce rate dropped.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNijinsky only lived when he danced.<\/span>
\nMarriage still in vogue with the young.<\/span>
\nBoxing tonight – Freud vs Jung.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIf you don’t push then you’ll get shoved.<\/span>
\nHaving fun in the tunnel of love.<\/span>
\nOne is one’s own enemy and friend.<\/span>
\nVan Gough cried “Misery will never end<\/i>“<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBridge 1<\/span>
\nToday someone started another new trend<\/span><\/i>
\nCos some of the old ones, they came to an end.<\/span><\/i>
\nMankind your slaves are rising against you now.<\/span><\/i>
\nYou treat your women like skivvies<\/span><\/i>
\nand your workers like slaves.<\/span><\/i>
\nNow your colonies<\/span><\/i>
\nwon’t bless your myths with Kow Tow.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nEverything you see could be a clue,<\/span>
\nTo some unsolved mystery.<\/span>
\nNewsmen in Trinidad said they’d hung Malcolm X.<\/i><\/span>
\nHave the prophets really had a glimpse of the text?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAbandoned baby found in a litter bin.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the backstreets someone threatened to do me in.<\/span>
\nFootball team didn’t win, goal disallowed.<\/span>
\nBut then we’re all part of that football crowd!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe censors gave life a certificate X.<\/span>
\nSupermarkets sell their beans with sex.<\/span>
\nThe sheer violence that assaults your head.<\/span>
\nWhatever would have Chaucer’s pilgrims have said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBridge 2<\/span>
\nCan u imagine Shakespeare’s three weird sisters<\/span><\/i>
\nShopping for Tampax in Marks and Blisters.<\/span><\/i>
\nRuthless Macbeth and an American Senator.<\/span><\/i>
\nBow down to the latest Charismatic Kings<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>
\nTourists tell us that ‘England Swings’<\/i><\/span>
\nCan’t afford to oil the pendulum swings.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nShe mixes cold intellectuality<\/span>
\nwith red-hot sexuality.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>
\nYou should have seen her body move<\/span>
\nStill made sure her mind improved.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPondering Weber’s theories of Bureaucracy<\/span>
\nWondering what life would have been like <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nunder the Chinese Literati.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nDon’t mind me I’m just expounding ideas<\/span>
\nthat caused some 20th Century tears.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n…<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nA 2nd cut up, David Bowie style, using my Sociology college and books and magazines. s<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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20th Century Inertia by Trev Teasdel<\/div>\n
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