Thompson, Richard - When We Were Boys At School Lyrics
All he ever wanted to do was harm
All he ever wanted to be was cruel
At 12 years old fate marked his brow
And he said, I have a mission now
But we laughed at his clothes
When we were boys at school
Teachers spoke of Hannibal and hector
Nimrod and Nietzsche were more his fuel
Swastikas and pentagrams
Flourished from his tender hands
But we watched in the rain
As the bully beat him up again
When we were boys at school
I'll be as grey as the world is grey
A thousand government corridors
Behind which of a thousand doors
Will I delegate and rule
O little boys at school
All he ever wanted to do was harm
All he ever wanted to be was cruel
And sometimes when the night is still
I can feel the gathering of his will
I can feel him flex the strings of power
And grope to his appointed hour
But we laughed at the dirt
And the frayed cuffs on his shirt
When we were boys at school
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Thompson, Richard When We Were Boys At School Comments
Hauntingly movingly magnificent.
This is a remarkably succinct, acute and euphonious analysis and explication of the wretched psychology that engenders political powermongering.
It could be subtitled 'The Ballad Of Honest John Howard", the insidious Australian stooge of the egregiously catastrophic good ole boy George Bush the (even) lesser.
So true..I like to play it and sing it, but I find it difficult to do, as its darkness is all too true.