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We're Just Following Your Lead, Maggie

from The Last Five Years by Spoony Bard

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I wrote this song the night after Margaret Thatcher died.

This album is nothing if not topical.

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I didn't hear the big society
Go out dancing in the street tonight
'Cos the family next door to me
Kicked and screamed and stamped their feet all night

I didn't care what they were fighting for
They're just someone's son and someone's daughter
Thank goodness somewhere in Belgravia
Another rose will go unwatered

We're just following your lead, Maggie
We won't stoop to tend your flowers now you're gone
We're all worshipping your creed, Maggie
'Cos as far as I can see
This ain't no society worth the name
After all the good you've done, Maggie

In the Square Mile and the Stock Exchange
There's pre-written platitudes to say
But profligacy and heartlessness
And reckless speculation remain the order of the day

And all across the moors and mining towns
They're building bonfires on the brown belt
Whilst teenage Trots get in another round
To raise a glass to how their fathers felt

We're just following your lead, Maggie
We won't stoop to tend your flowers now you're gone
We're all worshipping your creed, Maggie
'Cos as far as I can see
This ain't no society worth the blame
After all the good you've done, Maggie

We're just following your lead, Maggie
We won't stoop to tend your flowers now you're gone
We're all worshipping your creed, Maggie
'Cos as far as I can see
This ain't no society worth the name
After all the good you've done, Maggie.

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from The Last Five Years, released November 1, 2016

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Huyton's half-fi finest, Spoony Bard dispenses occasional bursts of observational bedroom pop from a box-room on the A5080. Wrapping his tales of everyday awkwardness in jauntily individual arrangements and addictively alliterative wit, he has a tendency to get embarrassed when talking about himself at length. Like now. ... more

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