Just seen the soldiers on patrol in Derry
What they thinking?
Bet they wish they could stay at home
Go out drinking in the evening
Just seen the newsprint tonight
Violence increasing, an explosion
Suddenly a public house went off bang
Foul play suspected, someone's cheating
Surely you see at the top of the stairs
A young mother cries
Convinced that her husband lies bleeding, defying
While 13 more died
See how her eyes glow
She's going insane
And you tell me enquiries will show
Whose to blame
But next Sunday at 2, will happen again, again.
So you think you can get away
Go down to Brighton for a season
Discuss the issues from day to day
Looking for reasons on paper
Surely you see at the side of the road
What looks like a bomb
Shoppers with children lie bleeding and dying
But what have they done
See how our eyes glow
We're going insane
And you tell me enquiries will show
Whose to blame
But Maudling, you fool, it will happen again, again
What they thinking?
Bet they wish they could stay at home
Go out drinking in the evening
Just seen the newsprint tonight
Violence increasing, an explosion
Suddenly a public house went off bang
Foul play suspected, someone's cheating
Surely you see at the top of the stairs
A young mother cries
Convinced that her husband lies bleeding, defying
While 13 more died
See how her eyes glow
She's going insane
And you tell me enquiries will show
Whose to blame
But next Sunday at 2, will happen again, again.
So you think you can get away
Go down to Brighton for a season
Discuss the issues from day to day
Looking for reasons on paper
Surely you see at the side of the road
What looks like a bomb
Shoppers with children lie bleeding and dying
But what have they done
See how our eyes glow
We're going insane
And you tell me enquiries will show
Whose to blame
But Maudling, you fool, it will happen again, again
Contributed by Bartleby - 2011/4/26 - 13:44
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Album “Old Boot Wine”
Canzone con cui Steve Borrill degli Spirogyra si rivolgeva direttamente a Reginald “Reggie” Maudling che all’epoca, come ministro dell’interno del governo inglese, era pure responsabile per l’Irlanda del Nord e che è colui su cui ricade il sangue dei cittadini di Derry massacrati dai parà britannici il 30 gennaio 1972, giorno passato alla storia come “Bloody Sunday”.
Reggie dovette dimettersi alcuni mesi dopo la strage, quando il governo conservatore di Heath decise di istituire un ministero apposito per gli “affari nord-irlandesi”…
Nel 1974 fu ferito da un pacco bomba inviatogli dall’IRA…
Fu ministro degli esteri del “governo ombra” conservatore, guidato da Margaret Thatcher, durante il mandato del labourista Harold Wilson…
Travolto da alcuni scandali finanziari ed estromesso dalla scena politica Maudling divenne alcolista e morì di cirrosi epatica a 61 anni, nel 1979…
“Maudling, you fool…”
Il titolo del brano fa riferimento a Benjamin Disraeli, celeberrimo politico britannico dell’800, prototipo del conservatorismo e del colonialismo più biechi.