D.I. Go Pop

Lyrics for D.I. Go Pop

(We take you to the Hotel Martinet in Brooklyn, where Bobby Millette and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music) For you I know I've been raving about this story Starts getting to the dogs every night on the hour Ships carrying bands in their entourage Off to seek their fortune here in America We've been refused entry so many times we've lost count So storm the way! It'll be ten years or thereabouts plays it safe And you have come to their senses But we doubt it 'Cause the next bomb on the train will be senseless And then you'll shout it And every time the stock market crashes It takes the whole damn country with it So when this country goes *pop* we'll have already done it Well the ship pulled ashore and the crowds are behind But there was already fat ones and warm in desire The crowd surged forward, over and by us And then we saw a bigger man standing behind us And we were blocking their way I had to get a limousine to take 'em away, the bastards Never had much money And cars they dont come cheap So all were could afford was a broken down Jeep We trusted a man, who got it off Rob Said he looked really sad that he sold it But we went back to pick up a battery and the engine exploded! Then we walked across town to the hotel Where we were hoping to stay But arrived to find the room had been booked And they turned us away So we were left on the street Looking for a new place in which to stay Did it slightly remind us about checking out this brave new world? No, but we did anyway The first thing we wanted was to find a place Where we could buy something to eat We were amazed walking back to find someone Had left a rubbish bag round in the street And it was only as we got closer that we saw it Was an old man who'd collapsed As people walked by they kicked him aside with their feet We passed a small bookstore where religious fanatics Had pushed their way in to burn the heretics The books had been published, yet had anyone read them? Well it didn't matter 'cause they knew what was in them Well you knew, anyway When you've got to go you never lead me astray We passed a small boy who was covered in blood We asked if there was any way that we could have helped him The boy just ran off and we came to an alleyway And although it was dark, we could see someone lying there We thought it was a woman who was beaten quite black And I realised that she must have been assaulted or started So we covered the body And we called the police without leaving our names an unsolvable crimes out the way We ran away to a diner & went to a table and just sat and stared What kind of a place are we in where nobody cares? Then the waitress came over to take our orders And noticed we're white And I asked her "We're English -- did you move here by choice?" She looked at us strange so I told her our story And she laughed and said "You must have got on a ferry cause you never left England"