You have to use your imagination
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To get across the situation
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You can simplify or overstate
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To make it easier to relate
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You can go right over the top
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With a list of things you want to stop
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Or you can concentrate on just one wrong
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And make it easier to sing along
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But if you say "I don't like this"
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(Or that or the other in a big long list)
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Then people write you off as a pessimist
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Providing no alternatives
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Or if you decide to simplify
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And use four-letter words and spit in the sky
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Then they'll chant the slogans and won't even try
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To understand the reasons why
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So perhaps the only way to make clear
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The views you'd like everyone to hear
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Is by taking a piece of everyday life
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And looking at it closer in a different light
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Let's take an example - the way we eat
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Sat at the table and it's all so neat
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Now you can understand that cos that's 'how it's done'
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And it's probably happened to everyone
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Having caught the attention you now decide
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How far to push your thoughts outside
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There's loads of angles, like dining out
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The hunger of the old man whose cash ran out
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The money made by corporations
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Selling bombs not food to starving nations
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You see there's a world-wide scope of affiliations
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Depending how far you wanna stretch imaginations
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Insert a little optimism now and then
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Before complaining becomes a trend
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Repetition defeats the point in the end
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It numbs imagination till it can't comprehend
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So walk the line between humour and gloom
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Amongst the debris there's just enough room
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To keep your mentality going strong
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And create some ultimate protest songs
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How To Write Ultimate Protest Songs
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Citizen Fish |