Joyride

Slipped behind the glittered fiction

and blanket points of view

is a screen to obfuscate

to subdue and to disguise

the pain of living memory

to hide savagery behind parody,

and mystify abuse

So remember the names,

remember the places

and every shallow sanction

the slow currency of violence

and all it shook from you

Because this New Town will shine

for another day

In solidarity there's a fight

for another way

With unity in our labour there

is strength

Because this New Town will shine

for another day

In red-top theatrics and sock-puppet lies

they'll sow chaos and watch it thrive

a trade to obscure and falsify

But there is a glint, a spark

in the haze

in our persistence, in our compassion

in the symphony of community

So remember the Times Club, all that glue

and the infinite love you always knew

Don't forget the feeling,of stockroom nights

and the aching strain

of their commodity worship

that turns the screw on you