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I was a Maoist intellectual
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in the music industry
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I always knew that I could seize
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the world's imagination
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And show the possibilities
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for transformation
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I saw a nation in decay,
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but also a solution: Permanent cultural revolution
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Whenever I played my protest songs
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the press applauded me
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Rolled out the red carpet,
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parted the Red Sea
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But the petit bourgeois philistines
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stayed away
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They preferred their artists
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to have nothing to say
Verse 3
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How did I pass my time on earth?
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Now it can be revealed:
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I was a Maoist intellectual
in the entertainment field
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I showed the people how they lived and
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told them it was bad
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Showed them the insanity in
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side the bureaucrat
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And the archetypes and stereotypes
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that were my stock in trade
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Toppled all the ivory towers that
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privilege had made
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Though I tried to change your mind
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I never tried your patience
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All I tried to do was to point
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out your exploitation
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But the powers that be took
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this to be a personal insult
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And refused to help me build
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my personality cult
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How did I pass my time an earth, what on
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earth got into me?
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I was a Maoist intellectual
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in the music industry
Verse 6
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I left the normal world behind and started
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living in
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A hinterland between
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dissolution and self discipline
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I burned the midnight oil
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to build my way of seeing
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A miner at the coal face of meaning
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The rich despised the songs I wrote which
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told the poor their worth
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Told the shy to speak and
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told the meek to take the earth
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But my downfall came from being three things
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the working classes hated:
Agitated,
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organised and over- educated
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How did I pass my
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time on earth,
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how did I bear witness?
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As a Maoist intellectual in
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the entertainment business
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And how was I treated in this
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world and in this industry?
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As a Maoist intellectual in a
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business would be
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I became a hotel doorman,
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I stood there on the doormat
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Clutching my forgotten discs in
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their forgotten format
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Trying to hand them out
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to all the stars who sauntered in
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The ones who hadn't been like
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me, who hadn't lived in vain
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I gave up ideology the day I lost my looks
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I never found a publisher for my
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little red books
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When I died the energy released
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by my frustration
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Was nearly enough for re- incarnation
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But if I could live my
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life again
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the last thing that I'd be
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Is a Maoist intellectual in the music industry
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No, if I could live my life again I think
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I'd like to be
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The man whose job is to stop
the men who think like me
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Yeah! If l could live my life again
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that'd be the thing to be
The man who plots
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the stumbling blocks
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In the lives of the likes of me!

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