Cloud Cuckooland - Roy Harper

The punters gather at primetime

On the flat screens of their dreams

To vote for dumb celebrity

And witter into gathering storms

Of universal screams

The great shampooed are stranded

With the cowgirls in the sand

Here in Cloud Cuckooland

We are condemned

We are condemned

To make

The same mistakes

Over and over and over and over

And over and over again

The bankers slide their stethoscopes

Into the public purse

To track genetic foreclosure

From coitus to delivery

From ovary to hearse

They creep around the spreadsheets

With the dodger’s sleight of hand

Here in Cloud Cuckooland

We are condemned

We are condemned

To make

The same mistakes

Over and over and over and over

And over and over again

The corporations occupy

The moral middle ground

Selling weapons to the world

As socially acceptable

Religously immaculate

Enforcers of the crowned

While necessary evil

Lends an ever willing hand

Here in Cloud Cuckoland

We are condemned

We are condemned

To make

The same mistakes

Over and over and over and over

And over and over again