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Europe (the song usually known as)

from Kabakunst by The Creative Martyrs

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The Song formally known as Europe

Take a nation discombobulated
Down at heel and so frustrated
Fuel an anger never really sated
To vote for things never really stated

Was the tipping point just past
Will we take our country back at last?
Hold on tight it changing fast
There ain’t much hope in the die that’s cast

Have we seen all this before?
It hard not to break Godwin’s Law
So we chose to shut the door
Yes we really said ‘come here no more’

Now the right has gone all central
This Fascism is incremental
This justice is temperamental
This folly is monumental

Everyone had a voice
On a so called ‘simple’ choice
Was it true democracy?
We’ll just have to wait and see

So many years of preventing war
Yes of course there are some flaws
But surely we’re better when we’re more
Whatever happened to Esprit de Corps?

Entwined in Legislation
Broad philosophical speculation
Commonality aspirations
A cross-cultural celebration

Simplified a complex notion
To sovereignty based on an Ocean
Sell it with fear and blind devotion
Engineer a divided population

Left Wing Self-Flagellation
Tolerates Governmental Obfuscation
Fuels xenophobic fermentation
With Patriotic Masturbation

Everyone had a voice
On a so called ‘simple’ choice
Was it true democracy?
We’ll just have to wait and see

And now we’ve got our Sovereignty
Who cares if it costs our morality?
Will we scramble around to make any deal?
To fuck ourselves for any despotic heel

Who can imagine the consequence?
Of decisions made without good sense
So many issues are yet to form
The pieces are setting for the perfect storm

It happened here, it happened there,
It seems it can happen anywhere
Democracy taken for granted
Turns out results rather unexpected

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from Kabakunst, released May 28, 2019

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The Creative Martyrs Glasgow, UK

The Creative Martyrs, first appeared in 1883, performing cabaret song and speciality acts.

It was not until their Weimar Cabaret acts of the 1920s that the by then jaded Martyrs found a sympathetic ear.

They further developed their cynicism in the vaudeville shows of 1940s America by which time they were considered passé.

Now the Martyrs will play anywhere that will have them. ... more

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