Música do BioTerra: Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

It may have been Camelot for Jack and JacquelineBut on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasolineFidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's cryingOver luxury's disappointmentSo he walks over and he's tryingTo sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn herThat the Third World is just around the corner
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blindedBy the resumption of nuclear testing and he is remindedThat Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fellAt the first hurdle
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hearIs the sound of someone stacking chairsAnd mopping up spilt beerAnd someone asking questions and basking in the lightOf the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use isI offer him embarrassment and my usual excusesWhile looking down the corridorOut to where the van is waitingI'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been postedEven after closing time there's still parties to be hostedYou can be active with the activistsOr sleep in with the sleepersWhile you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
One leap forward, two leaps backWill politics get me the sack?
here comes the future and you can't run from itIf you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n rollFrom Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understandStart your own revolution and cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tuneBut this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you mayThe Revolution is just a T-shirt awayWaiting for the Great Leap Forwards
Maravilha. Nas ruas de Buffalo, há um mês atrás. Um tema fantástico, lançado em 1988.