Cuppa Records

Cover design and photograph by E. Buchanan

WATCH THE WAR
© Woodstock Taylor 1999, updated 2004

Entertainment, magic moments
Easy payments by instalments
See the fighting, hear the shouting
Dig the lighting, what an outing
Made to measure orthodoxy
For your pleasure, life by proxy

While I have to lie to avoid the loanshark
'Cause I had to borrow to pay the pawnbroker
I can't afford to go out no more
Gonna stay at home and watch the war

Views of nature helter skelter
Watch the late show, gimme shelter
Death or glory, good for Britain
What's the story? Been rewritten.
Cash confessions, signal failure
Trash obsessions - catch the trailer

While I have to lie to avoid the loanshark
'Cause I had to borrow to pay the pawnbroker
I can't afford to go out no more
Gonna stay inside and watch the war

Beautiful machine, so elegant and clean
Financed by the dreams of the dispossessed
Message in the air from fatcats over there
To show how much they care about the refugees

Entertainment, magic moments
Easy payments by instalments
The fighting, the shouting
The lighting - what an outing
Made to measure orthodoxy
For your pleasure, death by proxy

While I have to lie to avoid the loanshark
'Cause I had to borrow to pay the pawnbroker
I can't afford to go home no more
Gonna stay inside and watch the war

Words and music to all songs
written and performed by Woodstock Taylor