I Was A Maoist Intellectual-Momus

歌手 : Momus
专辑 : Slender Sherbet
语种 : 英语
时长 : 03:51
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I Was A Maoist Intellectual - Momus
I always knew that I could
Seize the world's imagination
And show the possibilities
For transformation
I saw a nation in decay but also a
Solution Permanent cultural revolution
Whenever I played my protest
Songs the press applauded me
Rolled out the red carpet
Parted the Red Sea
But the petite bourgeois
Philistines stayed away
They preferred their artists
To have nothing to say
How did I pass my time on earth
Now it can be revealed:
I was a Maoist intellectual in
The entertainment field
I showed the people how they
Lived and told them it was bad
Showed them the insanity
Inside the bureaucrat
And the archetypes and stereotypes
That were my stock in trade
Toppled all the ivory towers
That privilege had made
Though I tried to change your
Mind I never tried your patience
All I tried to do was to
Point out your exploitation
But the powers that be took
This to be a personal insult
And refused to help me
Build my personality cult
How did I pass my time an
Earth what on earth got into me
I was a Maoist intellectual
In the music industry
I left the normal world
Behind and started living in
A hinterland between
Dissolution and self discipline
I burned the midnight oil
To build my way of seeing
A miner at the coal face of meaning
The rich despised the songs I
Wrote which told the poor their worth
Told the shy to speak and told
The meek to take the earth
But my downfall came from being
Three things the working classes hated
Agitated organized and over educated
How did I pass my time on
Earth how did I bear witness
As a Maoist intellectual in the
Entertainment business
And how was I treated in
This world and in this industry
As a Maoist intellectual in a
Business would be
I became a hotel doorman
I stood there on the doormat
Clutching my forgotten discs
In their forgotten format
Trying to hand them out to all
The stars who sauntered in
The ones who hadn't been like me
Who hadn't lived in vain
I gave up ideology the
Day I lost my looks
I never found a publisher
For my little red books
When I died the energy
Released by my frustration
Was nearly enough for re incarnation
But if I could live my life again
The last thing that I'd be
Is a Maoist intellectual in
The music industry
No if I could live my life
Again I think I'd like to be
The man whose job is to stop
The men who think like me
Yeah If l could live my life
Again that'd be the thing to be
The man who plots the stumbling blocks
In the lives of the likes of me