Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward Lyrics
It may have been Camelot for Jack and JacquelineBut on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasolineFidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's cryingOver luxury's disappointmentSo he walks over and he's tryingTo sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn herThat the Third World is just around the cornerIn the Soviet Union a scientist is blindedBy the resumption of nuclear testing and he is remindedThat Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fellAt the first hurdleIn the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hearIs the sound of people stacking chairsAnd mopping up spilt beerAnd someone asking questions and basking in the lightOf the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writerMixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use isI offer him embarrassment and my usual excusesWhile looking down the corridorOut to where the van is waitingI'm looking for the Great Leap ForwardsJumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been postedEven after closing time there's still parties to be hostedYou can be active with the activistsOr sleep in with the sleepersWhile you're waiting for the Great Leap ForwardsOne leap forwards, two leaps backWill politics get me the sack?Here comes the future and you can't run from itIf you've got a blacklist I want to be on itIt's a mighty long way down rock 'n rollFrom Top of the Pops to drawing the doleIf no one seems to understandsStart your own revolution, cut out the middlemanIn a perfect world we'd all sing in tuneBut this is reality so give me some roomSo join the struggle while you mayThe Revolution is just a t-shirt away
