Story Behind The Song
The disenfranchisement of the majority by what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "The Self Interest Base of Capitalism."
Song Description
To be or not to be whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or just join the Labour Movement and put an end to injustice altogether.
| Song Length |
5:28 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Annoyed, Nonviolent |
Subject |
Justice, Capitalism |
| Similar Artists |
Bob Dylan, John Lennon |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
All day, all night, always on my mind.
I get up to walk away from it all, and there it is when I arrive.
So I banned myself from reading newspapers,
I crucified my radio,
I fed my TV to the crocodile but this thing is everywhere I go.
CHORUS
Tell me how much insult are we supposed to take,
From all you powers that be?
When every flippant stroke of your golden pen,
And tens of millions grieve?
VERSE 2
Week in, week out, month by month for several years,
Whoopee doo here comes the leopard show,
And all that GM bread for free.
CHORUS
Tell me how much insult are we supposed to take,
From all you powers that be?
When every flippant stroke of your golden pen,
And tens of millions grieve?
Intro Bit
VERSE3
Celestial navigators, did you pay for your degree?
Or is it that you are just so naive?
Or is there something we can't see?
CHORUS
Tell me how much insult are we supposed to take,
From all you powers that be?
When every flippant stroke of your golden pen,
And tens of millions grieve?