Lyric Sheets: Back to the Great Divide
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Your support makes all the difference.After the failure of Blur's single to oust Britney Spears (below) from the top of the charts, the NME has said there's a case for rock's future "left-field aspirants" to follow the example of 70s rock dinosaurs and refuse to release singles
If there's a case for snobbery
It probably starts here:
A choice between an alcopop
Or decent pint of beer
A trawl around our "hit parade"
Its airheads and its chancers
Its ditzy little keyboard riffs
And drama-school- trained dancers
Whose cover shots and image fees
For vapid promo vids
Might buy a year of breakfasts
For a town of starving kids
So could the only antidote
Be "music-with-a-beard?"
The difficult and lengthy
The arty and the weird
Where every track's a sort of threat
Which keeps on switching key
Or flaunts a nasty time-change
Where choruses should be.
With minus no-potential
As an advertising jingle
And even less to offer
As a radio-friendly single
Back to double gatefold sleeves
And self-important solos?
But back to men who musically,
Would give you their last Rolos
Scruffy folk in wiry specs
The fashion police would hate
Unsuitable for TFI
The Chart Show or Blind Date
Who'd drag the music from the mall
And into pastures fresh
And leave the singles market
To the muppets, as a creche
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