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Strategy Of Tension

from Magic Money Tree by The Mighty Ur

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"It's not so much the Rivers of Blood but the Sewers of Hate"
Music rescued from a Pleasant Val+Darren Jam

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STRATEGY OF TENSION
Gas pump coins/ rag and bone men/ the ghostly cacophony of hawkers/ and commuters in bowlers/
Punctured plastic footballs/out of reach beyond the fenced-off rail-lines/
Haunted houses/ derelict houses/ newly-weds with bright futures collecting Tupperware/ shopping for supper-ware/ the death of industry/ the end of rent/ and the birth of right-to-buy
Cold-war spy-sagas and Harold Robbins/ Bodice-rippers/ Tit-bits/
Pans People and limp-wrists/ pansies and comedy feminists
Kids in blazers/ men huddled around braziers/
Hot metal presses and Laura Ashley dresses
Boot-boys and Butlin’s/ Brian Rix and Miss Whiplash/
Whitewash/ Whitehall farce and Mary Whitehouse
Cockney pugilists/ Northern ventriloquists/ -Situationists

Grub Street hacks in dirty rain-macs/ Kojak/ and Hijacks
Bobby sands and Grandstand/ Alison Gibbs doing handstands in the playground
The IRA/ the MFI/ Soccer-yobbos and Red Robbo
Red Rum and hum-drum Sundays/ Ice-cream sundaes/
Chicken in a basket/ Pizza in a briefcase
..Kiss-chase

I heard the bomb at Woolwich Barracks/ The Galloping Gourmet and Fanny Cradock
Robin Day and Peter Jay/ Neo-lib-looming/ male grooming
If you want a coloured for a neighbour then Vote Labour!
Love thy neighbour and Mind Your Language/
White men in turbans in prime-time sit-coms/
Shin-guards/IRA bombs at horse-guards/
The Strategy of Tension doesn’t warrant a mention/ just as OPEC doesn’t have an impact on Dennis Healey’s tattered knees/ take a breath…
The lagered-up stars of Saturday can’t even beat the Poles these days/ And Boob Moore’s heroic hollow legs/ they seem a million-million miles away these days
Boot-boys make away-days seem like dawn-raids by The Red Brigade/ Lou Grade gives way to Michael Grade/ and it all slowly/ begins to fade
As the Iron lady patiently waits for the fire-sale/ the yard-sale/ the bonfire of all sanity
The end of society/ and the slow-birth of austerity
It’s not so much the rivers of blood/ but the sewers of hate that gush like the forgotten Fleet
Beneath the satellite towns and sink estates
And the inner cities are ablaze these days/ not helped by the cop tightening the thumb-screws
With a sly smile upon his face
And they wonder why we’re aimless why we’re rootless, nihilistic, and dead-eyed
But they do not mention the seeds of their strategy of tension
To keep us either violent and predatory/ or muted and sedentary
And it seems surely inevitable, even evolutionary/ that some evil emissary
Will cap off this age of Shiva with the greatest light show the world has ever seen
And will ever see/ A fatal inevitable jolt and
All eyes shall be blinded by the flash of Shiva’s lightning-bolt
This is a Strategy of Tension.

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from Magic Money Tree, released August 16, 2018
Words : Steve
Drums : Sned
Bass : Runks
Guitar : Darren
Music produced, added to & put together by Runks

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The Mighty Ur are Steve McAuliffe (words) AC Monks, DP & Sned (music).This bandcamp site holds the music created with with a variety of musical co-conspirators in a variety of styles along with the works of The Mighty Ur

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