Count yourself lucky for the minutes
The hours and the days
They were singing in the street when David Bowie passed away
And he left behind a message without a shadow of a doubt
Stand up for what is right, stand up for it now
And I'm slap bang in the middle of this life that I lead
And it feels as though society's collapsing at the seams
And everybody knows it's happening
Still nobody does anything
Welcome to 2016
With its referendums and its algorithms
A sudden rise of fascism
That's fueled by a religious war
The return of the football hooligan
You can say goodbye to Muhammad Ali
Say hello to 2016
Well you can say goodbye to Prince as well
Say hello to laws that still prevent gay people getting married
The dinosaurs are not evolving
The matters go from bad to worse
You can see it in the eyes of the homelessness
But that don't bother Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson or Michael Gove
Self-righteous, self-serving twats
Telling us we want our country back
Until we're voted out by a majority
Who are petrified of refugees but not economic slavery
Well I whitewashed my Facebook feed
So everyone believes what I believe
But believing this stuff don't sell papers
Hey look son, here's another terrorist
Here's some more terror, here's some more terrorism
Here's another dead kid without any reason
Some more propaganda, public relations
Another bloody war followed by a pay cut
Here's a new prime minister, here's a new king
Welcome to 2016
Well I remember when Terry Wogan died
They were flogging off the public land
So that they could frack underneath
To please a few conservatives
Ignoring scientific fact that it's bad for the planet and it's bad for your health
The media government corporation
Sold your soul to their old school friends
With A-levels in the Panama Papers
And GCSEs in arms manufacturers
The transatlantic TTIP deal
Is pretty much the end of us all
And the only ones who benefit
Are the very people that invented it
And the lesser of two evils wins
Time and time and time again
Welcome to 2016
Born to lose and live to win
The words of Lemmy Kilmister
Who lived his life without regret
But he was sad of the state of the world that he left
And Guy Clark didn't sing for the money
And Howard Marks did what he wanted
Victoria she made us laugh
And DJ Derek made us dance
And now we're holding back the tears
More than any other year
And they're playing a Merle Haggard song
When Donald Duck steps to the throne
And tells us to hate Mickey Mouse
If we want to live in Walt Disney's house
An angry white man on a microphone
With his finger on the button and a nuclear code
But here we are, right now, today
Just hoping that it will go away
But we know that's not how the world works
And if we want to sort it out we've gotta do it ourselves
Try to picture a planet that you want to live on
If you want to build a future, you gotta start from the bottom
Try to think of something you can do to help
It doesn't matter how small, everything's gonna count
Right now we need you to be the best that you can be
And try to make a difference in 2017
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