There’s a new terror sweeping the streets Grannies with handbags looking for beats And people wonder what brought this on Whatever they think they’re always wrong Handbag murderers are waging their war On all the muggers who were before Now is a lesson to be learnt Don’t mess with granny if you don’t wanna get burnt Morals? – Morals, the papers say These vigilantes shouldn’t be put away But a life’s a life – as seen by your master Morals – morals?
9th June 2023 – Is violence ever acceptable? 100% inspired by Monty Python’s Hell’s Grannies.
Forget Superman and Spiderman too When in trouble he’ll always help you – who? Danger Ranger Comic book heroes are really a bore No one reads them anymore – they read Danger Ranger
Danger Ranger ain’t no stranger To the high life Danger Ranger ain’t no stranger To fucking your wife Danger Ranger ain’t no stranger To alcohol and drugs Danger Ranger ain’t no stranger To beating up thugs
Danger Ranger is full of shit He helps to give you a false impression Then he fucks with your life To make sure you learn your lesson Danger Ranger
You’re creating your problems It’s no one’s fault but your own I try to help you out But all you do is moan Sometimes I wonder why I bother I really do It’s no good to keep on coming up to me To keep helping you All your problems – solve them
Kiss the workhouse Kiss it goodbye Out at last Free from the lie Job satisfaction Wages Social Industry Boredom Conditioning How many people out there are listening? Moan on the dole Clone control Work work work work work work work work – know what I mean?
7th June 2023 – From age 13 until finishing school we were asked what jobs we wanted to do when we left school. How was a dumb boy like me supposed to know? Well, that’s why we had career advice lessons and a beginner’s introduction to the soon-to-be popular ‘buzzwords’. I still quite like this poem.
You sit alone, thoughts in your head What can you say that hasn’t been said? What can you do that hasn’t been done? You know you’re not the only one
What will you do now you’re having fun? Will you look back at what you have done? You gave up the world for your selfish aims So you could carry on with your games
Now I’m asking you what have you done? You don’t know or care as long as it’s fun Won’t you help? You know you can save me You know you could love me but hate is all you gave me
What will you do now you’re having fun? Alienate me more that you’ve already done So long as you’ve got friends and a bottle to drink You can live life without having to think
To think What have you done? The end Is sure to come
Now you’ve come of age at last It’s time now to forget your past Keep your hair clean and fix your face Now you are in your place Nice, systematic, cool, controlled I’m afraid I’m not that old Nice….systematic….cool….controlled Transformation When you get old – time to change again It’s a shame – there’s no remain – of your brain
Some things I can stand Some things I cannot But you are just sitting there Taking everything I’ve got So I use my free speech Make sure I have my say But the media distorts my every word So I can’t get away I say it’s bad stuff They say I say fair enough Is it fair? Is it enough?
6th June 2023 – I feel like I was being an everyman with ‘the media distorts my every word.’ My own personal views were never represented in media but those I aligned with often were. I don’t think this was about a particular incident, or at least I can’t remember it now but a very vague generalisation.
Have you got a cigarette for me to smoke? If I don’t have one soon I think I’ll choke The doctor says I should give up the weed He says they will make my lungs bleed – I try to breathe out but I always wheeze – Have you got a fag? Oh, please!
I always take a bag to the shop ‘Five thousand fags please’, I never stop All these little kids asking for a fag But I tell them that I need every drag – I try to breathe out but I always wheeze – Have you got a fag? Oh, please!
It got so bad I was seriously ill My throat was blocked, I couldn’t swallow a pill Lying on a hospital bed, still wanting a drag But now I’m really dying for a fag
Mastery exam is a sham Mastery test, mastery test Mastery exam is a sham Mastery test, mastery test I want a job, I want a job Failed the exam, failed the exam Sham
Read the papers and hear the news Someone’s point of distorted views When someone says it’s worse than you think You’d better believe it, you never saw the missing link
6th June 2023 – I so want to fix that last line, what a nightmare! In 1984 we didn’t have mainstream media – there was just media and it was mostly news with doses of opinion. Not much entertainment but that would soon be coming. There was no mainstream media because there wasn’t much in the way of alternative media, at least not easily discoverable. Anyway, I was already distrustful.
