Where Did It All Go Wrong? Lyrics

I read the daily papers, I watch the TV news

I consider myself well informed and respect opposing views

I listen to the arguments of so many important men

But soon you realise they just say the same old things again

The good old days might not have been that good, but at least we were young and strong

Now every day I ask myself where did it all go wrong?

Where's that natural justice as a child I was told prevailed

Seems to me the very very rich have got every corner nailed

We're told if we work hard we too can taste that fatted calf

But the poor stay poor at the castle gates while those inside just laugh

What a world o what a world, it used to be so good

Anyone would help anyone just because they could

But now it's the loudest shouter who always gets his way

And money shouts the loudest, and there ain't no shades of grey

Times were so much simpler not so many years ago

We all had a good idea where life was going to go

The best is yet to come, we used to say in days gone past

But don't go planning for the future, boys, I don't think it's going to last

Our noble politicians say they bear such a heavy cross

My heart bleeds for those Eton boys, d'you think any of them gives a toss?

They say he'll come back from the dead, then he'll make them jump

The winner will have the biggest tongue for licking Donald Trump

So bring on the revolution, boys, let's sharpen those sickle blades

Burn the bastards on their piles of cash and storm the barricades

Give back power to the people, burn that Brexit plan

Put good ol' Tony Benn in charge. Even dead he's a better man.