How To Write Ultimate Protest Songs

You have to use your imagination

To get across the situation

You can simplify or overstate

To make it easier to relate

You can go right over the top

With a list of things you want to stop

Or you can concentrate on just one wrong

And make it easier to sing along

But if you say "I don't like this"

(Or that or the other in a big long list)

Then people write you off as a pessimist

Providing no alternatives

Or if you decide to simplify

And use four-letter words and spit in the sky

Then they'll chant the slogans and won't even try

To understand the reasons why

So perhaps the only way to make clear

The views you'd like everyone to hear

Is by taking a piece of everyday life

And looking at it closer in a different light

Let's take an example - the way we eat

Sat at the table and it's all so neat

Now you can understand that cos that's 'how it's done'

And it's probably happened to everyone

Having caught the attention you now decide

How far to push your thoughts outside

There's loads of angles, like dining out

The hunger of the old man whose cash ran out

The money made by corporations

Selling bombs not food to starving nations

You see there's a world-wide scope of affiliations

Depending how far you wanna stretch imaginations

Insert a little optimism now and then

Before complaining becomes a trend

Repetition defeats the point in the end

It numbs imagination till it can't comprehend

So walk the line between humour and gloom

Amongst the debris there's just enough room

To keep your mentality going strong

And create some ultimate protest songs