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June Seventh - Erase the Symbols

Let's bring all the statues down
Drive the racists from my town
Topple symbols, watch them drown
Rid his bronze from my ground

I smashed the cast of Colston first
He was wrong by right of birth
Privileged white not black nor serf
Broken history feeds my mirth

Let's look next for white male pests
Nelson's column, Wellington's chest
Churchill, Kipling and the rest
To fuck them up I do my best

Slave owners, colonialists, hear my voice
Your dead now and I rejoice
Racist attitudes were your choice
Now in the air your legs we hoist

Mob mentality is our own insanity
Think its wrong and cry profanity
The problem's yours and it's called vanity
I don't like your kind humanity

We haven't even started properly
Did I name this public property?
Do I like this art atrocity?
Don't you love my inequality?

Who gets the job to name the streets
On which I stamp my feted feet?
You want to talk, you want to meet?
Dialogue over, now delete.

I had my moment of adulation
Hit the news of the nation
My greatest ever claim to fame
But no street bears my name

The world has changed since this was done
Looking back on all the fun
The differences of opinion
Royally absent in my minion

No more statues, they all went
Along with nuance and dissent
I sung along all summer spent
wondering what the lyrics meant

Let's find one who's done no wrong
Who's got the right to sing this song
one bronze alone to rid them all
and be installed in each town hall

They self-declared and that was it
Cried Palmyra when its throat was slit
History cancelled, I played my bit
And the chance to learn from it

Yeah, I toppled brass and made it drown
And you still want to track me down?
my address: Block 13b, 21 town
zone 7, segment brown.