《Dutiful Servants & Political Masters》歌词

[00:00:00] Dutiful Servants & Political Masters - Chumbawamba

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[00:00:17] Things were rather different in great grandfather's day

[00:00:20] He just put a chain around their ankles and made them work for no pay

[00:00:24] He took everything they owned and yet still demanded more

[00:00:28] He did a bloody good job in taming the poor

[00:00:31] Now I'm rather more subtle I say I'll tell you what I will do

[00:00:35] I'll do everything I can to try and help you

[00:00:39] And you'll be helping me I say and I'll see that you're alright

[00:00:43] You can have a place of your own you can even pretend to be white

[00:00:46] And you won't have to worry I'll have a quiet word with your mates

[00:00:50] Oh they'll be alright they'll have enough on their plate

[00:00:53] I'll put a bit in their mouths you just pull hard on the reins

[00:00:57] They'll do anything for you and they won't complain

[00:01:01] You'll be so much better off I say you can share my paradise

[00:01:05] Just sign my piece of paper and I'll organize your life

[00:01:08] And it never fails it does the trick it works every time

[00:01:12] So me and my dear wife and the family's doing fine

[00:01:16] Great granddad got his dukedom when slavery was abolished

[00:01:19] Dear old dad became a viscount when the Empire was finished

[00:01:23] But times have changed for the better with freedom of choice

[00:01:26] We're a thousand times richer QED His Master's Voice

[00:01:36] A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet waits for its call to action

[00:01:39] Mute and obedient standing to attention

[00:01:42] Look a little closer the dog is a woman

[00:01:44] She's working under a system that she can't understand

[00:01:47] Trapped inside a world of labor and heat

[00:01:50] So that she and her children will be able to eat

[00:01:53] The trumpet is patriarchy it's old and fixed

[00:01:55] Where poor men are lured by desire to be rich

[00:01:58] Where the limited power is still given to men

[00:02:01] Where development aid is so wastefully spent

[00:02:04] Where western education enforces this crap

[00:02:06] Where women work in the open yet live in a trap

[00:02:09] There's one solution and this is it

[00:02:11] The dog leaps on the gramophone and has a shit