Bragg Billy Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Lyrics

Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Lyrics

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara
highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady
who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's
trying
To sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn her
That the
Third World is just around the corner
In the Soviet Union a scientist is
blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr
Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle
In the Cheese
Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of people stacking
chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking
in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine
writer
Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him
embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to
where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
Jumble
sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time
there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the
activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the
Great Leap Forwards
One leap forwards, two leaps back
Will politics get
me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've
got a blacklist I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n
roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to
understands
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
In a perfect
world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So
join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a t-shirt away