Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

[00:11.50] It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
[00:16.60] But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
[00:22.66] Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
[00:27.64] Over luxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying
[00:33.29] To sympathise with her, but he thinks that he should warn her
[00:38.49] That the Third World is just around the corner
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[00:52.93] In the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded
[00:57.80] By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
[01:03.46] That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
[01:10.99] At the first hurdle
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[01:22.97] In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
[01:27.99] Is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer
[01:33.54] And someone asking questions and basking in the light
[01:38.70] Of the 15 fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer
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[01:53.01] Mixing pop and politics, he asks me, what the use is?
[01:58.29] I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
[02:03.51] While looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting
[02:09.12] I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
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[02:22.91] Jumbo sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
[02:28.43] Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
[02:33.05] You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
[02:38.61] While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
[02:44.62] One leap forward, two leaps back
[02:47.12] Will politics get me the sack?
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[02:55.02] Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it
[02:57.86] If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
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[03:05.79] It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
[03:08.35] From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
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[03:16.39] If no one seems to understand
[03:18.95] You, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
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[03:26.94] In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
[03:29.54] But this is reality so give me some room
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[03:37.38] So join the struggle while you may
[03:40.04] The Revolution is just a T-shirt away
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