Party of God [*]
Billy Bragg

In a busy street
A man sits down
Oblivious to the traffic sounds
No chaos
No frenzied shrieking crowd
Thank God their silence
Walking heads bent down
Come when they saw us
Called it lethargy
The treadmill turns
There down below their feet

Should I pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or cross the waves of an angry sea
Risking (risking)
And braving (braving)
The shipwreck and the mutiny assailing
Assailing

In a haunted doorway
And from the light of day
See another life fall to ruin in pain
False smiles from even children it seems
Landlocked ground for empty and lost dreams
A league against me
I hear him say
It's not worth half the effort
Or the price you pay

Should I pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or should I raise my face to the heavens above
And tell God (dear God)
Stop jeering (and jeering)
As our human frailties and all
Our failings
Are we failing?

Pound pound on an endless street
Again and again the nightmare scene
All strained against the tightened rope
Not one with a lasting lingering hope
There's evidence everywhere you see
Put a quarter down at the newsstand
So that you can read

Should I pray for an end to come
Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
Or should I raise my face to the clouds above
Entreating (entreating)
Their mercy (some mercy)
But as clouds will do
They'll rain down
First gently (gently) and sweetly (so sweetly)
Until they silence me
With a burst of thunder (thunder) and lightning (and lightning)
And helpless landlocked screaming
I know God must be agreeing
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part of watching
It's the worst part
Landlocked in screaming
God must be agreeing
To be helpless is the worst
Must be the worst part of watching
The worst part of watching


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  "Someday, Some Morning, Sometime"   7 and 7 Is   A Change Is Gonna Come   A Change Is Gonna Come [#][*]   A Lover Sings   A Miner's Life   A New England   A New England [*]   A New England [DVD][Live]   A New England [DVD][Live]   A New England [DVD][Live][*]   A Pict Song   Accident Waiting To Happen   Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Stars Version)   Accident Waiting to Happen [Live]   Accident Waiting to Happen [Red Star Live Version]...   Accident Waiting to Happen [Red Star Version]   Accident Waiting to Happen [Red Star Version]   Aginst Th' Law   Aginst Th' Law   Airline To Heaven   All You Fascists   All You Fascists Bound to Lose   All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Blokes Version)   Another Man's Done Gone   Another Man's Done Gone   At My Window Sad And Lonely   At the Dark End of the Street   Back To The Old House   Back to the Old House [#][*]   Back to the Old House [Bonus CD][#]   Bad Penny   Bad Penny [#][*][Demo Version]   Bad Penny(demo)   Between The Wars   Between the Wars [*]   Between the Wars [Bonus CD]   Billericay Dickie   Birds And Ships   Black Wind Blowing   Blake's Jerusalem   Blake's Jerusalem   Blood Of The Lamb   Body Of Water   Body of Water [DVD][Live][*]   Bread & Circuses [*]   Bread and Circuses   Bread and Circuses   Bread And Circuses (Remastered)   Brickbat   Busy Girl Buys Beauty   California Stars   Career Opportunities   Chasing Rainbows   Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto   Christ For President   Cindy of a Thousand Dreams   Cindy Of A Thousand Lives   Cindy of a Thousand Lives [#][*][Demo Version]   Cindy of a Thousand Lives [DVD][Live][*]   Constitution Hill   Days Like These   Days Like These (D.C. Remix)   Days Like These (u.k. Version)   Days Like These [D.C. Remix]   Days Like These [DC Remix]   Days Like These [UK Version]   Distant Shore   Do Unto Others   Dolphins   Eisler On The Go   England, Half English   Everybody Likes You Babe   Everybody loves you babe   Everywhere   Everywhere [Alternative Version][#][*]   Farm Boy   Farm Boy [Band Version]   Farm Boy [Solo Version][*]   Fear Is A Man's Best Friend   Feed Of Man   Fourteenth of February   From A Vauxhall Velox   From Red To Blue   Glad And Sorry   Goalhanger   Goalhanger [#][*][Demo Version]   God's Footballer   God's Footballer   Goodbye, Goodbye   Greetings To The New Brunette   Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo Version)   Greetings To The New Brunette (Shirley)   Greetings to the New Brunette [*]   Greetings to the New Brunette [#][*][Demo Version]   Greetings to the New Brunette [Bonus CD][#][Demo V...   Groove Is in the Heart   Handyman Blues   He'll Go Down   Heart Like a Wheel   Heart Like a Wheel   Help Save The Youth Of America   Help Save the Youth of America [DVD][Live]   Help Save the Youth of America [DVD][Live][*]   Help Save the Youth of America [Live]   Hesitating Beauty   Hobo's Lullaby   Hold The Fort   Hold the Fort [*]   Hold the Fort [Bonus CD]   Home   Honey I'm A Big Boy Now   Honey I'm A Big Boy Now   Honey,i'm A Big Boy Now   Hoodoo Voodoo   Hot Rod Hotel   I Ain’t Got No Home   I Aint Got No Home   I Almost Killed You   I Almost Killed You [Band Version]   I Almost Killed You [Solo Version][*]   I Don't Need This Pressure Ron   I Don't Need This Pressure Ron   I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night   I Guess I Planted   I Heard It Through the Grapevine [DVD][Live]   I Heard It Through the Grapevine [DVD][Live][*]   I Keep Faith   I Keep Faith [Band Version]   I Keep Faith [Solo Version][*]   I Was Born   Ideology   If You Ever Leave   If You Ever Leave [Solo Version][*]   Ingrid Bergman   Internationale   Island Of No Return   It Must Be A River   It Must Be a River [#][*]   It Must Be a River [Bonus CD][#]   It Says Here   January Song   Jeane   Joe DiMaggio Done It Again   Joe Hill   Joe Hill [*]   King James Version   Levi Stubbs' Tears   Levi Stubbs' Tears   Life With The Lions   Like Soldiers Do   Like Soldiers Do   Like Soldiers Do (Slow Version)   Little Time Bomb   Love Gets Dangerous   Love Gets Dangerous [Alternative Version][Alternat...   Love Gets Dangerous [Alternative Version][Alternat...   Love Gets Dangerous [DVD][Live]   Love Has No Pride   Lover's Town   Lovers Town Revisited   Loving You Too Long   Loving You Too Long [#][*]   Loving You Too Long [Bonus CD][#]   M for Me   M for Me [Band Version]   M for Me [Solo Version][*]   MBH   MBH [#][*]   Meanest Man   Milkman of Human Kindness [*]   Mother Of The Bride   Moving The Goalposts   Mr. Love & Justice   Mr. Love & Justice [Solo Version][*]   Mr. Love & Justice   MrLove & Justice   Must I Paint You A Picture   Must I Paint You a Picture? [Extended Version][*]   Must I Paint You a Picture? [Extended Version][#][...   My Flying Saucer   My Youngest Son Came Home Today   Never Cross a Picket Line   Never Had No One Ever   New England   Nicaragua Nicaraguita   No One Knows Nothing Any More   No One Knows Nothing Anymore   North Sea Bubble   North Sea Bubble [#][*][Demo Version]   Northern Industrial Town   O Freedom   O Freedom [Band Version]   O Freedom [Solo Version][*]   One By One   Only Bad Signs   Only Bad Signs [#][*]   Only Bad Signs [Bonus CD][#]   Ontario, Quebec And Me   Over You   People Get Ready [DVD][Live][*]   Price I Pay   Qualifications   Qualifications [*]   Qualifications [#][*]   Raglan Road [Live][*]   Raglan Road [Live][#][*]   Remember The Mountain Bed   Revolution   Revolution [*]   Revolution [Live]   Richard   Richard [DVD][Live]   Rotting On Remand   Rule Nor Reason   Rule nor Reason [Live][#][*]   Rumours Of War   Sailors and Soldiers   Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance   Secret Of The Sea   Seven and Seven Is   Seven and Seven Is [#][*]   Sexuality   Sexuality [#][*][Demo Version]   Sexuality [DVD][Live][*]   She Came Along To Me   She Smiled Sweetly   She's Got A New Spell   She's Leaving Home   She's Got A New Spell   Ship In My Harbour   Shirley   Shirley [#]   Sin City   Sin City [*]   Sin City [Bonus CD]   Sing Their Souls Back Home   Sing Their Souls Back Home [Band Version]   Sing Their Souls Back Home [Solo Version][*]   Some Days I See The Point   Someday, Some Morning, Sometime   Something Happened   Something Happened [Band Version]   Speedway Hero   Speedway Hero [#][*]   Speedway Hero [Bonus CD][#]   St Swithin's Day   St. Monday   Stetson Kennedy   Strange Things Happen   Strange Things Happen [Alternative Version][Altern...   Strange Things Happen [Alternative Version][Altern...   Sugardaddy   Sulk   Swallow My Pride   Take Down The Union Jack   Talking Wag Club Blues   Talking Wag Club Blues [#][*]   Talking Wag Club Blues [Bonus CD][#]   Talking With The Taxman About Poetry - Vladimir Ma   Tank Park Salute   Tank Park Salute [DVD][Live][*]   Tank Park Salute [DVD][Live][*]   Tears Of My Tracks   Tender Comrade   Tender Comrade [DVD][Live][*]   That's Entertainment   That's Entertainment   Thatcherites   Thatcherites [*]   Thatcherites [#][*]   The Battle of Barking   The Beach Is Free   The Boy Done Good   The Busy Girl Buys Beauty   The Clashing Of Ideologies   The Cloth   The Cloth (1) [Bonus CD][#]   The Cloth (2) [Bonus CD][#]   The Cloth [1][#][*][Version]   The Cloth [2][#][*][Version]   The Few   The Few [*][Demo Version]   The Fourteenth Of February   The Fourteenth of February [*][Demo Version]   The Fourteenth of February [#][*][Demo Version]   The Fourteeth of February   The Guitar Says Sorry   The Gulf Between Us [#][*]   The Home Front   The HomeFront   The Internationale   The Johnny Carcinogenic Show   The Johnny Carcinogenic Show [Solo Version][*]   The Last Flight to Abu Dhabi   The Last Time   The Man in The Iron Mask   The Man in the Iron Mask [Alternative Version][Alt...   The Man in the Iron Mask [Alternative Version][Alt...   The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions   The Marriage   The Milkman Of Human Kindness   The Myth Of Trust   The Only One   The Only One [#][*][Demo Version]   The Passion   The Price I Pay   The Price I Pay [#][*][Demo Version]   The Price I Pay [DVD][Live][*]   The Price I Pay(demo)   The Price of Oil   The Red Flag   The Saturday Boy   The Saturday Boy [DVD][Live][*]   The Saturday Girl   The Short Answer   The Space Race Is Over   The Space Race Is Over [#][*][Demo Version]   The Tatler   The Tracks of My Tears [*]   The Tracks of My Tears [Bonus CD][#]   The Unwelcome Guest   The Warmest Room   The Warmest Room [DVD][Live][*]   The Wolf Covers Its Tracks   The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (Live)   The World Turned Upside Down   There Is Power In A Union   There Is Power in a Union [*][Instrumental]   There Is Power in a Union [Bonus CD][Instrumental]   There Will Be a Reckoning   Think Again   Think Again   This Guitar Says Sorry   This Guitar Says Sorry   This Guitar Says Sorry [Alternative Version][Alter...   This Gulf Between Us   This Gulf Between Us [#][*]   This Land Is Your Land (U.K. Version)   To Have & to Have Not   To Have and Have Not   To Have And To Have Not   To Have and to Have Not [DVD]   To Have and to Have Not [DVD][Live]   To Have and to Have Not [DVD][Live][*]   To Have and to Have Not [Live]   Tomorrow s Going To Be A Better Day   Tomorrow's Going To Be a Better Day   Tracks Of My Tears   Train Train   Train, Train   Trust   Trust [#][*][Demo Version]   Upfield   Upfield [*][Demo Version]   Upfield [#][*][Demo Version]   Valentine's Day Is Over   Valentine's Day Is Over   Waiting for a Train   Waiting For The Great Leap Forward   Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards   Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards - 2011 version   Walk Away Renee   Walk Away Renee (Version)   Walk Away Renee [Version]   Walt Whitman's Niece   Walt Whitman's Niece   Warmest Room [Live]   Warmest Room [Live]   Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key   When the Roses Bloom Again   When Will I See You Again?   When Will I See You Again? [#][*]   Which Side Are You On   Which Side Are You On?   Which Side Are You On? [*]   Which Side Are You On? [Bonus CD]   Which Side Are You On? [DVD][Live]   Wish You Were Her   Wishing The Days Away   Wishing The Days Away (Alternate Take)   Wishing the Days Away [Alternate Take][#][*]   Wishing the Days Away [Ballad Version]   Wishing the Days Away [Bonus CD][Alternate Take][#...   Wishing the Days Away [DVD][Live]   Wishing the Days Away [DVD][Live][*]   You Make Me Brave   You Make Me Brave [Band Version]   You Make Me Brave [Solo Version][*]   You Woke Up My Neighborhood   You Woke Up My Neighbourhood   You Woke up My Neighbourhood [*]   Youngest Son   Your Name on My Tongue

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