Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Lyrics
| Song | Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards |
| Artist | Billy Bragg |
| Album | Workers Playtime |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作词 : Bragg | |
| It may have been camelot for jack and jacqueline | |
| But on the che guevara highway filling up with gasoline | |
| Fidel castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying | |
| Over luxury's disappointment | |
| So he walks over and he's trying | |
| To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her | |
| That the third world is just around the corner | |
| In the soviet union a scientist is blinded | |
| By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded | |
| That dr robert oppenheimer's optimism fell | |
| At the first hurdle | |
| In the cheese pavilion and the only noise i hear | |
| Is the sound of someone stacking chairs | |
| And mopping up spilt beer | |
| And someone asking questions and basking in the light | |
| Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer | |
| Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is | |
| I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses | |
| While looking down the corridor | |
| Out to where the van is waiting | |
| I'm looking for the great leap forwards | |
| Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted | |
| Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted | |
| You can be active with the activists | |
| Or sleep in with the sleepers | |
| While you're waiting for the great leap forwards | |
| One leap forward, two leaps back | |
| Will politics get me the sack? | |
| Here comes the future and you can't run from it | |
| If you've got a blacklist i want to be on it | |
| It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll | |
| From top of the pops to drawing the dole | |
| If no one seems to understand | |
| Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman | |
| In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune | |
| But this is reality so give me some room | |
| So join the struggle while you may | |
| The revolution is just a t-shirt away | |
| Waiting for the great leap forwards |
| zuo ci : Bragg | |
| It may have been camelot for jack and jacqueline | |
| But on the che guevara highway filling up with gasoline | |
| Fidel castro' s brother spies a rich lady who' s crying | |
| Over luxury' s disappointment | |
| So he walks over and he' s trying | |
| To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her | |
| That the third world is just around the corner | |
| In the soviet union a scientist is blinded | |
| By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded | |
| That dr robert oppenheimer' s optimism fell | |
| At the first hurdle | |
| In the cheese pavilion and the only noise i hear | |
| Is the sound of someone stacking chairs | |
| And mopping up spilt beer | |
| And someone asking questions and basking in the light | |
| Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer | |
| Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is | |
| I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses | |
| While looking down the corridor | |
| Out to where the van is waiting | |
| I' m looking for the great leap forwards | |
| Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted | |
| Even after closing time there' s still parties to be hosted | |
| You can be active with the activists | |
| Or sleep in with the sleepers | |
| While you' re waiting for the great leap forwards | |
| One leap forward, two leaps back | |
| Will politics get me the sack? | |
| Here comes the future and you can' t run from it | |
| If you' ve got a blacklist i want to be on it | |
| It' s a mighty long way down rock ' n roll | |
| From top of the pops to drawing the dole | |
| If no one seems to understand | |
| Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman | |
| In a perfect world we' d all sing in tune | |
| But this is reality so give me some room | |
| So join the struggle while you may | |
| The revolution is just a tshirt away | |
| Waiting for the great leap forwards |
| zuò cí : Bragg | |
| It may have been camelot for jack and jacqueline | |
| But on the che guevara highway filling up with gasoline | |
| Fidel castro' s brother spies a rich lady who' s crying | |
| Over luxury' s disappointment | |
| So he walks over and he' s trying | |
| To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her | |
| That the third world is just around the corner | |
| In the soviet union a scientist is blinded | |
| By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded | |
| That dr robert oppenheimer' s optimism fell | |
| At the first hurdle | |
| In the cheese pavilion and the only noise i hear | |
| Is the sound of someone stacking chairs | |
| And mopping up spilt beer | |
| And someone asking questions and basking in the light | |
| Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer | |
| Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is | |
| I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses | |
| While looking down the corridor | |
| Out to where the van is waiting | |
| I' m looking for the great leap forwards | |
| Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted | |
| Even after closing time there' s still parties to be hosted | |
| You can be active with the activists | |
| Or sleep in with the sleepers | |
| While you' re waiting for the great leap forwards | |
| One leap forward, two leaps back | |
| Will politics get me the sack? | |
| Here comes the future and you can' t run from it | |
| If you' ve got a blacklist i want to be on it | |
| It' s a mighty long way down rock ' n roll | |
| From top of the pops to drawing the dole | |
| If no one seems to understand | |
| Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman | |
| In a perfect world we' d all sing in tune | |
| But this is reality so give me some room | |
| So join the struggle while you may | |
| The revolution is just a tshirt away | |
| Waiting for the great leap forwards |
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