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(Words Flew) Right Around the World

Chumbawamba

Album: The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. Durasi: 2:16

Bert told Brecht

Brecht told Bert

Words like birds flew right around the world

Right around the world

Words flew right around the world

Beware! Don't look away!

Hear what the poet has to say

Songs and rhymes for the worst of times

Paper feeds the fire In the coldest winter

Bert told Brecht

Brecht told Bert

Words like birds flew right around the world

Right around the world

Words flew right around the world

Wake up! Look around!

The painter learnt to juggle like a clown

Poet he shouts till they chase him out

Marching into exile with an old typewriter

Bert told Brecht

Brecht told Bert

Words like birds flew right around the world

Right around the world

Words flew right around the world

Take care! Open up your eyes!

Words can take you by surprise

Poet he writes fights the best of fights

Taking on the painter with a pen and paper...

Bert told Brecht

Brecht told Bert

Words like birds flew right around the world

Right around the world

Words flew right around the world

Right around the world

Words flew right around the world