Challenge #12: Marx and Engels
Let us celebrate my sudden, probably fickle embracing of Marxism with a song about, well, Marxism. How surprisingly on topic!
There's misery in all I hear and see
From the people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me
There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey
She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no way
Instrumental
There's misery in all I hear and see
From the people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me
There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey
She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no way
That she could respect
If it couldn't see
That the girl just wants to be
Left alone with Marx and Engels for a while
She's writing in the style
Of any riot girl
"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a revolutionary part to all feudal, idyllic relationships.
It has resolved personal worth and in place of freedom is exploitation for profit alone.
There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion.
We could learn much from the past."
Audio is here. For those of you who own copies of Robert C. Tucker (editor)'s The Marx and Engels Reader, 2nd edition, you may (sort of, the translation in the book is somewhat iffy) follow along with the background singing from page 475 onwards.
This song reminds me of Lily and James, for some strange reason. Lily the riot girl and James the clueless bourgeois. Which is a plot point you are definitely welcome to borrow, should it strike you as being workable.
There's misery in all I hear and see
From the people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me
There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey
She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no way
Instrumental
There's misery in all I hear and see
From the people on TV
After their tea when life begins again
They'll be happier than me
There are a thousand meals being made on Saturday
From the view I saw today
I took a bet inside the launderette
With a girl from Wallasey
She spoke in dialect I could not understand
But one thing she made clear
There was no coming on to her
There was no way
That she could respect
If it couldn't see
That the girl just wants to be
Left alone with Marx and Engels for a while
She's writing in the style
Of any riot girl
"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a revolutionary part to all feudal, idyllic relationships.
It has resolved personal worth and in place of freedom is exploitation for profit alone.
There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion.
We could learn much from the past."
Audio is here. For those of you who own copies of Robert C. Tucker (editor)'s The Marx and Engels Reader, 2nd edition, you may (sort of, the translation in the book is somewhat iffy) follow along with the background singing from page 475 onwards.
This song reminds me of Lily and James, for some strange reason. Lily the riot girl and James the clueless bourgeois. Which is a plot point you are definitely welcome to borrow, should it strike you as being workable.