Smash Clause 29! Lyrics

Smash Clause 29! lyrics

Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde, can you tell me where you've been?

I've been
down to London town to pay a visit to the Queen.

Oscar Wilde, Oscar
Wilde, can you tell me what you saw?

I saw the Queen and all her coutiers
cooking up new laws;

I saw the corridors of power, with closets
wall-to-wall;

And I saw the truth, the truth, behind the Emperor's new
Clause!

So you burn the books, and close your eyese to every other
possibility-- you got to keep your job for collaborating with the enemy. You
keep throwing stones though your house is made of glass; you've helped to make
McCarthyism popular, at last.

Blessed are the moralists, the Judges, the
patriarchs. Blessed are the gutter-press, the AIDS-joke comedians. Praise to
the guilt-mongerers, the fear-builders, the sin-fetishists.

Glory, glory,
halleluia, His truth is marching on

One in ten driven underground,
divisions getting wider. Hide your inclination behind a straight face and a
Bible. Third Reich morality, and if the cap doesn't fit, there's a designer
label for hypocrites.

Here comes the officer, knocking on your door. He's
got a care order in the pocket of his uniform. Where's Radclyffe Hall? Now is
the time to tear up clause 29!

Here comes the preacher checking your
soul. Too late sir, I'd rather fall. We'll eat your bread and we'll drink your
wine, and still tear up clause 29! Here comes the judge, hammer in hand, but
we've all gone deaf to bigots' commands. Our justice will cross the thin blue
line and tear up clause 29!

Here comes a brick, heading your way. A
concrete opinion says all I want to say. Save your own soul, mine will be fine,
once we've shredded clause 29.