In The... All Together

Another dawn, another date

Another meeting of the ol' G8

To change the world, make history

Not compromise or hesitate

Try something, try anything

Try help the situation

Amidst the cries and demonstrations

We hear the plans of favoured nations

"If it could be done", they said, "the sooner then, the better"

"It would be good if it was better than the way it was before" they said

In the mire all together, when there's so much to admire

It seems "the emperor's new clothes" is such a seasonable attire

The issues are of great import

The problems very clear

From fevered minds and tortured brows

There's such a lot to fear

From climate change to debt relief

Surely couldn't come much bigger

All the power that is nuclear

Whose finger's on the trigger?

On the horns of this dilemma with death's spectre in the wings

Where democracy is waning, clearly it's a "people thing"

Yes, we're in it all together and all our wishes are laid bare

We taste "the truth without the trimmings" and we find it meagre fare

Welcome to "a day in the life show", starring you and me and all

It's better than your realiTV, you just couldn't make this stuff up

As pandemics spread around the world...

We've got pestilence, famine, fire and flood for the people in glasshouses

Now the good will is all over and we're left with nothing good

It seems "the best laid plans of mice and men" get trampled in the mud

Yes, we're in it all together, right up to our nether lip

In this cesspit we inhabit, only takes a slip

"If it could be done", they said, "the sooner then, the better"

"It would be good if it was better than the way it was before" they said

They said nothing too explicit, there's no meat upon the bones

"We'll just have to wait and see", they said, "just see how it goes...", they said