I Was A Maoist Intellectual-Momus

[ti:I Was A Maoist Intellectual] [ar:Momus] [al:Slender Sherbet] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Was A Maoist Intellectual - Momus [00:13.72]I always knew that I could [00:15.11]Seize the world's imagination [00:16.77] [00:17.84]And show the possibilities [00:19.70]For transformation [00:22.00]I saw a nation in decay but also a [00:24.92]Solution Permanent cultural revolution [00:29.26] [00:31.08]Whenever I played my protest [00:32.93]Songs the press applauded me [00:34.24] [00:35.35]Rolled out the red carpet [00:36.72] [00:37.56]Parted the Red Sea [00:38.63] [00:39.62]But the petite bourgeois [00:40.87]Philistines stayed away [00:43.24] [00:44.10]They preferred their artists [00:46.03]To have nothing to say [00:47.35] [00:48.38]How did I pass my time on earth [00:50.47]Now it can be revealed: [00:52.29]I was a Maoist intellectual in [00:54.96]The entertainment field [00:56.31] [01:01.45]I showed the people how they [01:03.12]Lived and told them it was bad [01:04.77] [01:05.80]Showed them the insanity [01:07.82]Inside the bureaucrat [01:09.05] [01:10.00]And the archetypes and stereotypes [01:12.34]That were my stock in trade [01:13.93] [01:14.94]Toppled all the ivory towers [01:16.64]That privilege had made [01:17.85] [01:19.17]Though I tried to change your [01:20.71]Mind I never tried your patience [01:22.60] [01:23.48]All I tried to do was to [01:25.29]Point out your exploitation [01:26.98] [01:27.62]But the powers that be took [01:29.19]This to be a personal insult [01:30.99] [01:31.75]And refused to help me [01:33.14]Build my personality cult [01:35.05] [01:36.43]How did I pass my time an [01:38.05]Earth what on earth got into me [01:40.06]I was a Maoist intellectual [01:42.66]In the music industry [01:44.29] [01:49.45]I left the normal world [01:51.11]Behind and started living in [01:52.60] [01:53.63]A hinterland between [01:55.53]Dissolution and self discipline [01:57.11] [01:58.04]I burned the midnight oil [02:00.09]To build my way of seeing [02:02.28]A miner at the coal face of meaning [02:05.05] [02:06.73]The rich despised the songs I [02:08.68]Wrote which told the poor their worth [02:10.43] [02:11.17]Told the shy to speak and told [02:13.21]The meek to take the earth [02:14.61] [02:15.53]But my downfall came from being [02:17.27]Three things the working classes hated [02:19.39] [02:20.04]Agitated organized and over educated [02:23.72] [02:24.34]How did I pass my time on [02:26.03]Earth how did I bear witness [02:27.97] [02:28.52]As a Maoist intellectual in the [02:30.56]Entertainment business [02:32.89]And how was I treated in [02:34.19]This world and in this industry [02:36.46] [02:37.19]As a Maoist intellectual in a [02:39.20] [02:39.82]Business would be [02:40.91] [02:46.11]I became a hotel doorman [02:47.71] [02:48.47]I stood there on the doormat [02:49.88] [02:50.63]Clutching my forgotten discs [02:52.59]In their forgotten format [02:53.98] [02:54.98]Trying to hand them out to all [02:56.80]The stars who sauntered in [02:58.25] [02:59.07]The ones who hadn't been like me [03:01.39]Who hadn't lived in vain [03:02.53] [03:03.61]I gave up ideology the [03:04.78] [03:05.73]Day I lost my looks [03:07.08] [03:07.80]I never found a publisher [03:09.83]For my little red books [03:11.20] [03:12.22]When I died the energy [03:14.47]Released by my frustration [03:16.12] [03:16.71]Was nearly enough for re incarnation [03:19.29] [03:21.11]But if I could live my life again [03:23.12]The last thing that I'd be [03:25.18]Is a Maoist intellectual in [03:27.65]The music industry [03:28.64] [03:29.34]No if I could live my life [03:31.34]Again I think I'd like to be [03:33.12] [03:34.09]The man whose job is to stop [03:36.24]The men who think like me [03:37.50] [03:38.03]Yeah If l could live my life [03:40.12]Again that'd be the thing to be [03:41.88] [03:42.68]The man who plots the stumbling blocks [03:44.95]In the lives of the likes of me