Enough

The Northern diatribe of some folk

Is enough to make North tribe vs South tribe seem a joke

Its really important the North invented Industrial Production

And the South gave us Vacuum cleaning power suction

But the big question is do you push or pull your Henry Hoover

There’s an investigation in Shepherd’s Bush into the who pulled the wool

Over the carpet stain remover

Who cares?! I’ve had enough

I don’t mind if the North provided England with a power house

Made us super rich for a time

All of that is Post Modern now

It only influences our aesthetic taste for ruined industry art

For Nostalgia as if Britain wasn’t nostalgic enough

Why do we need reminding we used to have this stuff?

But screwed it up?

The fact is we were puritan’s who stood for something once

We had roots but now most of it is lost

Then you say we instilled the work ethic into the labour force

Well yes and no, though few people really starve now

Few people really grow, there is not such ambition in the working class

And the ruling elite are still hankering after the myths of the past   

They’re now too weird to be jealous of

The rich / poor divide is too great

They might as well be the Royal Family

And share their fate

But revolution is not on the cards – we have too many rules

And most of us through education have been turned into robots

So all we know how to do is conform

We are grey, we are a lifeless nation moving into oblivion

Ruled in part by people with no imagination

Who are too serious to fool

And that is one big problem of unquestioned authority

When students don’t question the teachers

The teachers don’t question their institutional rules

And the citizen cannot question the politicians

There is no accountability at all

But neither is there any room for failure or mistakes

Which is where the best inventions come from

We have gone in on ourselves in the best English tradition

When the world has gone crazy around us

We have retreated into the castles of our souls

And it will take a lot to unlock the door

To bring down the drawbridge