Count yourself lucky for the minutes, the hours and the days

They were singing in the street when David Bowie passed away

And he left behind a message without a shadow of a doubt

Stand up for what is right, and stand up for it now

And I'm slap bang in the middle of this life that I lead

And it feels as though society's collapsing at the seams

And everybody knows it's happening, still nobody does anything

Welcome to 2016

With its referendums and its algorithms

A sudden rise of fascism that's fuelled by a religious war

The return of the football hooligan

You can say goodbye to Muhammad Ali

Say hello to 2016

Well you can say goodbye to Prince as well

Say hello to laws that still prevent gay people getting married

The dinosaurs are not evolving, can matters go from bad to worse

You can see it in the eyes of the homelessness

But that don't bother Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson or Michael Gove

Self-righteous, self-serving twats

Telling us we want our country back

Until we're voted out by a majority who are petrified of refugees

But not economic slavery

But I whitewashed my Facebook feed so everyone believes what I believe

But believing this stuff don't sell papers

Hey look, son, here's another terrorist, here's some more terror

Here's some more terrorism, here's another dead kid without any reason

Some more propaganda and public relations, another bloody war

Followed by a pay cut, here's a new Prime Minister, here's a new king

Welcome to 2016

Well I remember when Terry Wogan died

They were flogging off the public land

So that they could frack underneath

To please a few Conservatives, ignoring scientific fact

That it's bad for the planet and it's bad for your health

The media government corporation sold

Your soul to their old school friends

With A-Levels in the Panama Papers and GCSEs in arms manufacturers

The transatlantic TTIP deal is pretty much the end of us all

And the only ones who benefit are the very people that invented it

And the lesser of two evils wins time and time and time again

Welcome to 2016

Born to lose and live to win, the words of Lemmy Kilmister

Who lived his life without regret

But he was sad of the state of the world that he left

And Guy Clark didn't sing for the money

And Howard Marks did what he wanted

Victoria, she made us laugh and DJ Derek made us dance

And now we're holding back the tears more than any other year

And they're playing a Merle Haggard song

When Donald Duck steps to the throne

And tells us to hate Mickey Mouse if

We want to live in Walt Disney's house

An angry white man on a microphone

With his finger on the button and a nuclear code

But here we are right now, today

Just hoping that it will all go away

But we know that's not how the world works

And if we want to sort it out, we've got to do it ourself

Try to picture a planet that you want to live on

If you want to build a future, got to start from the bottom

Try to think of something you can do to help

It doesn't matter how small, everything's going to count

Right now we need you to be the best that you can be

And try to make a difference in 2017