Cable Street Again

This is where it starts; a sinecure sleight of hand
 To saturate postures with wormwood and gall
 Settle with hatred and you'll bow on command
 Compromise doubly and compromise all
 Fascism hammers out his hooks
 On scapegoat anvils beneath your nose
 Perhaps your eyes will follow suit
 As your hearing, hearing, hearing fucking goes
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 This is where it goes, when breaking point's reached
 The dry-rotted floorboards will always give way
 And thus once again the sealed vault is breached
 In cycles and cycles of silent decay
 Rot and negligence
 Scarcity's false, except for the truth
 The Bindweed is once again taking root
 I hope you like poverty, breathing in soot
 And the taste of leather off Britain's boot
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 Desperate times call, call for disparate measures
 A few misdirections to change how the pressure discharges
 I see the forked tongues, in the ear of the strained
 And both barrels retrained on the ones in the margins
 These dispossessed people
 Silver-eyed, glazed with a mirror of trauma
 Boats sunk in a wash of formaldehyde
 The tollen's reagent scars the iris, scars the iris anew
 So hold your tongue, or I'll hold it for you
 The violence is here
 Modern Blackshirts in the streets
 What good is civility in the face of a kerb full of teeth?
 'Tis no broken system, but the product of it
 You cannot fix that which is working as intended
 Gnashing-toothed printing press, virulent, caustic
 They bound the fasces themselves, they sharpened the axe
 Know this, they aren't resting, nor reading the rules
 They're desperate for war, gagging for it
 If it's to be cable street again, we won't win through debate
 You can't reason with malice
 The fasces must break
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 If this is against the grain
 Then the blight really has set in
 The furrowing of brows and the festering of blame
 Misshapen and bent
 It's not the fucking corner shop that drives up your rent
 They salted the soil
 Buried up to your neck in the debts of your station
 But this is where it ends there's no middle road
 And I tell you get down off the fence
 Before the barbed wire goes up