The Great British Mistake

<br>The Great British Mistake (written 2/78)<br>The Great British Mistake was looking for a way out, was getting<br>complacent, not noticing the pulse was racing - the mistake was fighting<br>the change, was staying the same. It couldn`t adapt so it couldn`t survive,<br>something had to give, the people take a downhill slide into the gloom,<br>into the dark recesses of their minds.<br>I swoop over your city like a bird<br>I climb the high branches and observe<br>Into the mouth, into the soul<br>I cast a shadow that swallows you whole<br>I sweep, I climb, I suck, I swallow you whole<br>Bring out the drip-feed, they`re losing their world, they`re losing their hard<br>boys and magazine girls, advert illegal, TV as outlaw, motive as spell.<br>They`ll see the books burn, they`ll be 451, it`s people against things and<br>not against each other, out of the pre-pack, into the fear, into themselves.<br>They`re the great British mistake - the genie`s out the bottle, call in the<br>magician, they didn`t mean to free him, devil behind him, devil in the<br>mirror, chained to the right hands. They`re the great British mistake -<br>they`ll have to come to terms now, they`ll take it out somehow, they`ll<br>blame it all on something. The Great British Mistake - when will it be over?<br>How can they avoid it?<br>The Adverts