Song Lyrics and Politics
Thom Yorke's Harrowdown Hill, from The Eraser
Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient
In the Harrowdown Hill
Where you went to school
That's where I am
That's where I'm lying down
Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And where's the blood?
And where's the blood?
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry
We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
Can you see me when I'm running?
Can you see me when I'm running?
Away from them
I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
Now the politics. Remember the names Kelly, Hutton, Campbell, and Gilligan? Remember the words "whitewash", "accountability", and "blame"? Because too few people seem to. Ask people about the Hutton Inquiry and many will have forgotten. And yet it showed that judicial independence, independant inquiries, and anything that could embarass the government, would be very rapidly hushed up... and we remain with many questionmarks hanging over the Kelly affair, not least the suicide-or-murder one. So why, how, have people forgotten one of the defining events of the course of the Iraq debacle in the UK?
Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient
In the Harrowdown Hill
Where you went to school
That's where I am
That's where I'm lying down
Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And where's the blood?
And where's the blood?
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry
We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
Can you see me when I'm running?
Can you see me when I'm running?
Away from them
I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it
We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
Now the politics. Remember the names Kelly, Hutton, Campbell, and Gilligan? Remember the words "whitewash", "accountability", and "blame"? Because too few people seem to. Ask people about the Hutton Inquiry and many will have forgotten. And yet it showed that judicial independence, independant inquiries, and anything that could embarass the government, would be very rapidly hushed up... and we remain with many questionmarks hanging over the Kelly affair, not least the suicide-or-murder one. So why, how, have people forgotten one of the defining events of the course of the Iraq debacle in the UK?