thoughts of a blue collar

Thoughts of a blue collar

see i was raised during the cold war
when you weren't allowed to ignore the daily
yes the daily threat
of global carnage followed by extinction
due to nuclear war
from Truman to Nixon to Reagan
Krushev
Brezhnev
then Gorbachev who stopped them as though he didnt acknowledge that global politics is a choreographed game that the top players play but none are meant to win
so the whole world dropped him

So 30 years later here's today's brief
America leans on Ukraine so Russia invades them
killing at will
running over the hill
Then in an international free for all ww3 looks tangible
as another western investment called israel sends a warning to five million in a paradox of a prison called Palestine to head for the long grass
doubling the arms sales
for as long as this one lasts

I was raised in the era of punk rock interpreting that if you punched a clock you were just stock cause draconionism was riding rough shod
so it was created ad hoc
A consequential hybrid of 60s hippies and the arrogance of political nonchalonce
The U.K cousins were opening their own eyes hardly expecting to end up as by products  of A.I
and Johnny Rotten has surely forgotten that who he was made him who he is, now that living the dream has become living the lie into a forbidden truth

I was raised in the days of the national front
Jim Davidson
Love thy neighbour
So they fed you racism in brash
in funny
and a plethora of flavours
But old heads told this scared kid that the post war TV disciples are gonna kick the bucket with their festered fodder in it
and for a generation it did go quiet
but Marcus Rashford missed a penalty in 2020 and overturning stones
and thus we were re-deemed black bastards
only this time across the internet in the ungracious pace of a minute

Point is
that while we point to the future with hope for gen Z
we keep getting to the point where hoping seems pointless
as our resume looks hopeless