establishment - stanley odd lyrics
[part 1]
big jim asked me if we were part of the establishment
it caught me off guard, that’s a flag i’ve not been brandishin’
i said i’d hardly call stankey odd established yet
he said “i said establishment”, now we’re arguing over adjectives
or nouns. but it’s the verb establish that
established that establishment could mean standing with a cause and then advancing it
imagine this, i’m the enchanted blitzed semanticist
stanzas split, examining the meaning ’til it can’t exist
it gets to the stage that every that every conversation’s hazardous
before i answer this i need a minute with ma strategist
i guess i must admit he shook ma cage and rattlled it
did i establish in the first place that i was anti*establishment?
no matter whit, that concept in this context doesn’t fit
abandom ship, or take off from the latest landing strip
in these chasmous labyrinth that we’re saddled with
the concept of establishment is as cadaverous as the thatcher is
i’m the dramatist, the satirist, the catalyst
passionately adamant, ragged trousered philanthroppist
relax but don’t mistake ma candidness for artifice
i’m handy with my hands and if yir fancying a dance i’m in
on the other hand though if we’re wanting chinned the hand’s a fist
i’ve sunk yir submarine mate and i plan to sink yir battle ship
look at the band i’m in, we champion outlandishness
i have no plan to win over some cardigan*ed evangelists
the media’s a demanding kid
that stands throwing its toys off of an endlessly expanding cliff
i think i’ll stick to burning both ends of the candlestick
mashed romanticist, can in hand decanting random scripts
[hook]
this is how it works round hear
we can make you disappear
son you’re heading for a fall
you will be first against the wall
[part 2]
what have we been up to?
learning if yir head’s above parapet then duck doon
i found maself in a confused state
accused of ruining a city’s good name
of course the press attacked tha gall and out and out subversiveness
of daring to contribute to a 30*second advertis*m*nt
what fuels ma nervousness is the verve with which
a certain evening paper spread its pessimistic verbiage
now there’s an example of journalistic integrity
or dreadfully bias unrealistic hyperbole
i’ll admit to running the risk of surprise
when a journalist phoned me up fishing for lies
never mentioned any negative details, the least of all
a headline that reads “rapper fails to please the mob”
complicit in taking the p*ss with sensationalist agendas
manipulating the city while claiming you’re its defenders
preaching from an imaginary tower of pious righteousness
edjits your rag is only glorifying spitefulness
get the picture, it’s said to paint a thousand words
well i’d say you less represent the people than the counsellors
i’m just throwing stones from an emotional glass case
explaining masel, although to quote loki i shouldnae have tae
i know i’m the messenger
but just consider this a letter to the editor
scandalous scaremongering bores me to distraction
there’s always justification for disproportionate reaction
look for villagers with pitchforks if your feeling sinister
globalisation made us all co*conspirators
i’m just battling a pessimistic stage
wrestling up late with the gremlins on the page
i’m not imparting ma wisdom, i’m not a man on a mission
i would discard that position for playing the part of the villain
i’m all apologies, i like anthropology
but this caterwauling politics is more lycanthropology
beware wolves in sheeps’ clothing gather round
the voices of the people shouldn’t be foamin’ at the mouth
[hook]
this is how it works round hear
we can make you disappear
son you’re heading for a fall
you will be first against the wall
this is how it works round hear
we can make you disappear
son you’re heading for a fall
you will be first against the wall
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