[Hook] {The Specials?} "Round and round, round we go!" "Round and round... round and round"
[Verse 1] Since the day I was born, I could work for a boss Or hand in a form, or shoplift to survive til the cops swarm Selling my days, selling my ability to work for a wage doing whatever pays Getting something much less than what I make and what it costs So I guess I got rorted(?) for the lot The man who tried to bust and make you shirk Getting nothing but death and doing all of the work Get a jerk taking your calls, licking his balls Cos his dad own the phone and the fucking four walls Making things to sell, not things I need And if you're sick you better get the money and bleed If you can't pay the bills, getting repossessed in the back, take the house - you can keep the rest It's politics and crime, world war in demand so everything going to plan, history of the world
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[Verse 2] They can rob us all blind, but when I take it back it's crime I take what I need cos what's there's is mine It's like, white supremacy, male supremacy Kill the bullshit, know your enemy Everyone I got has been one but a working man, not the parliament(?) It's been done before, get it done again I don't want no part of what they're offering Came to rat(?) on your friend and mine So if you wanted me to rock the vote I'd rather calm my throat Rather drop the soap and cop The Age The history of the world from the slave to the wage - it's a class war Something like Vinnie Jones slamming your head in a car door ducking in Darfur Everything that you ask for, a little matter of genocide Step aside, a history of the world
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[Verse 3] Spending more time with the ones I hate than the ones I love Iron fist in a velvet glove held above With bordom and anger but I pay for the medicine Everyday reproducing the hell I'm in Life of the citizen is the life of the militant High school death for the innocent When the direst(?) is unfulfilled My dreams are repressed and replaced with a pill Or a bottle of red, but the boss is a good bloke He give me break for a bite and a smoke And the shit I make he take more than what I want to Wonder how the motherfucker get away outnumbered But they got police to beat me up Prison to lock me up, military want me up to kill folks that are just like me, far away For the freedom to keep getting fucked everyday in the world
[Hook] "History of the world" "What goes around comes around..."