The Old School Tie letra

Oh the bright young man in the tight-buttoned suit
the light beams out from capped smiles to the shines
on their lick-spittle books
Oh these sharp young sparks with their fresh rosettes
Yeh, the artful ways that they promise the earth
to all suffragettes -
What they won't promise we don't know yet.
They say they're build - and shaping society
but we know they're just saving for their own
Safe home in politics
Anything goes: look at them run.
Come from every side, noses Pinocchio clean;
Lock in synchromesh, oil the wheels and the gears
of the party machine.
And the final goal is a cabinet seat...
in the trappings of power, the presumption to speak
for the man in the street.
Once they move in, they're in for good;
Yeh, once they get that bed made it's a
safe home in politics.
Jobs for the boys: look at them run.

There's just one thing none of us should forget:
a political man is just in it for the power
and the smell of sucess.
Sure, some start out as idealists -
pretty soon they all cop for ideal careers and
a safe home in politics,
a cusky job in politics;
look at them run.

The politicians fight it out on the couning tower
but they all agree not to rock the boat.
A safe home in politics
It's built on your vote.

Peter Hammill - Letras

• (No More) The Submariner
• (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
• A Better Time
• A Forest Of Pronouns
• A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
• A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
• A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
• A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
• A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
• A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
• A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
• A Louse Is Not A Home
• Again
• Been Alone So Long
• Candle
• Child
• Comfortable
• Crying Wolf
• Faint-Heart and the Sermon
• Ferret And Featherbird
• Fight
• Forsaken Gardens
• Four Pails
• Gog
• Happy
• I Once Wrote Some Poems
• Imperial Zeppelin
• Just Good Friends
• Lost And Found
• Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
• Man-Erg
• Material Possession
• Mediaevil
• Mirror Images
• Modern
• Mr. X (Gets Tense)
• My Experience
• My Favourite
• Nadir's Big Chance
• Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
• Nightman
• No Moon In The Water
• Nobody's Business
• None Of The Above
• Not For Keith
• Not The Man
• Nothing Comes
• Now Lover
• Now More Than Ever
• Oasis
• On The Surface
• Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
• Ophelia
• Other Old Clichés
• Our Oyster
• Painting By Numbers
• Palinurus (Castaway)
• Paradox Drive
• Patient
• People You Were Going To
• Personality
• Phosphorescence
• Planet Coventry
• Pompeii
• Porton Down
• Power Of Speech
• Primo on the Parapet
• Pushing Thirty
• Rain, 3 a.m.
• Ram Origami
• Re-Awakening
• Red Shift
• Reprise
• Rock and Rôle
• Rubicon
• Sci-Finance
• Seven Wonders
• Sharply Unclear
• She Wraps It Up
• Shell
• Shingle Song
• Sign
• Silver
• Since The Kids
• Sitting Targets
• Skin
• Sleep Now
• Slender Threads
• Smile
• Solitude
• Something About Ysabel's Dance
• Still In The Dark
• Still Life
• Stranger Still
• Stupid
• Summer Song (In the Autumn)
• Sun City Nightlife
• Sunshine
• Tapeworm
• Tenderness
• The Birds
• The Comet, The Course, The Tail
• The Cut
• The Future Now
• The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
• The Great European Department Store
• The Great Experiment
• The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
• The Jargon King
• The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
• The Light Continent
• The Meanings Changed
• The Moebius Loop
• The Mousetrap (Caught In)
• The Noise
• The Old School Tie
• The Play's The Thing
• The Polaroid
• The Second Hand
• The Spirit
• The Tower
• The Unconscious Life
• This Book
• This Side Of The Looking Glass
• Time For A Change
• Time Heals
• Time To Burn
• Too Many Of My Yesterdays
• Traintime
• Trappings
• Two Or Three Spectres
• Under Cover Names
• Unrehearshed
• Viking
• Vision
• Vote Brand X
• What I Did
• What's it Worth?
• When Language Corrodes
• Where The Mouth Is
• Wilhelmina
• You Can't Want What You Always Get...
• You Hit Me Where I Live
• Your Word