Story Behind The Song
The current U.K. Conservative governments assessments procedure for people with physical and mental health problems is a Dickensian atrocity which is causing untold suffering and at worst death.
| Song Length |
3:54 |
Genre |
Rock - Funk, Rock - Punk |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Outraged, Intolerable |
Subject |
Justice, Government |
| Similar Artists |
The Jam, Higsons |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1980 - 1989 |
| |
Lyrics
Witch's Trial
They draw ever closer
Their nets tighten over
Your name just a number
Easier to register
This numbers a person
Who lives in confusion
But this institution
Says "all rise"
For witch's trial
Austerity measures
Her majesties pleasure
As disparity grows
The rich reap as they sow
Officious bystanders
These blue - blooded bastards
Deny working classes
Come the night
Of witch's trial
And so by government decree
Democratic impunity
Means you sink or swim
In bureaucratic sea
And as you ponder on your fate
Witchfinder generals debate
Part of the unwell-not-so-fair-state
They're calling last orders
Your pushed in a corner
Falling through the cracks
An anonymous slaughter
The hammer drops on
The judges cyclops vision
The systems decision ?
You're a witch
And you've been tried
How do these policies get made
Where T.V. licences are paid
For millionaire's, without a care at all
Compared with others who will die
Flung from the bottom rung to fry
This 'big society' seems awful small
The witch's trial
The witch's trial
The witch's trial
The witch's trial
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