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Taking Us Back Lyrics by Benefits

2019

[Verse 1]
We're alright mate
It's not us it's them
As he repeats himself
Again and again
He throws over
A nod and a wink
And has another piss week
Fighting drink
Like a rose-tinted gammon dream
And it's brought up again
We'll never forgive
And we'll never forget
You were never there
Just accept it
It's a bigotry claim
All hidden and named
Through shabby endless
Lines and lines and lines
Of empty big-neck clubber-men
And they're kicking up
Like God knows when
As aggression is in fashion again

[Chorus]
And they're taking us back
They're taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Verse 2]
This ruddy based recession
A xenophobic monster crunch
Orange lit side street
Blood on concrete
Illuminated polyester strutters
And they're pissing in the gutters
We're all pissing in the gutters
As this will be
Forever England
Forever rotting
Forever shite

[Chorus]
And they're taking us back
Taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Verse 3]
A statue of a dead white man
Standing in a big square
Looking down with Victorian frown
And remind you of a bygone sway
A non-existent memorial day
And it's covered in pigeon shit
Plastered head to foot
Pissed up against on the weekend circuit
And it's falling apart
And it's weathered away
And no one cares who they are
A monument to an invented age
Another monument to an invented age

[Chorus]
And they're taking us back
Taking us back, back, back, back, back
And they're taking us back
Taking us back, back, back, back, back

[Outro]
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
Back, back, back, back, back
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