Bragg Billy North Sea Bubble Lyrics

North Sea Bubble Lyrics

I went out drinking with Thomas Paine
He said that all revolutions are not
the same
They are as different as the cultures
That give them
birth
For no one idea
Can solve every problem on Earth
So don't expect
it all to happen
In some prophesized political fashion
For people are
different
And so are nations
You can borrow ideas
But you can't borrow
situations
In Leningrad the people say
Perestroika can be explained this
way
The people who told us
that two and two is ten
Are now trying to
tell us
the two and two is five
We're living in a North Sea
Bubble
We're trying to spend our way out of trouble
You keep buying these
things but you don't need them
But as long as you're comfortable it feels
like freedom
My American friends don't know what to do
But they'll wait 
along time for a Beverley Hills coup
War! What is it good for
It's good
for business