"Well it's got nothing to do with anything that is real
You just believe in it and it's true
You can sooth like an angel or sigh like a saint
You can dream it and see it through
You will live to see a sea of lights
Sparking on the face of a pearl
Climb your own peak
Find a new streak
Get yourself along to the world party (party!)
Now you've been building for yourself a cool place in the sand
You're thinking that it's mighty fine
You've got dust in your eyeballs, you got mud in your mouth
But it's your head, it ain't mine
I've got a madman of my own to contend with
Cursing in the cave of my skull
Turn the other cheek
Find a new streak
Get yourself along to the world party (party!)
Well I heard a rumour of a golden age
Somewhere back along the line
Maybe I dreamed it in a whisper or
Heard it in a spell
It was something to do with the sign of the times
And the only thing that I remember
Is a summer like a pretty girl
Who shimmers and shines
Moving in time
Shaking to the beat of the heart of the world
Party (party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party! party!) "
- #TheWaterboys, 1988 (#MikeScott, #KarlWallinger )
"He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"
- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986
The families going hungry because of #Trump’s #FoodStamp cuts
Under President Donald Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.
by Shannon Pettipiece, May 11, 2026
#USPol #TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA
#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism
#Autocracy #Greed #BigUglyBill #BigUglyPresident
Ship of Fools - #WorldParty
#Lyrics :
We're setting sail
To the place on the map
From which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
By the light of the crosses that burn
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
And the gold and the cotton and pearls
It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need
You sail away from the light of the world
On this trip, baby
You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeah
You will pay tomorrow
Save me (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Save me from tomorrow (ooh-ooh-ooh)
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no-no (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Oh, oh-oh, save me (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Save me from tomorrow (ooh-ooh-ooh)
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no-no (ooh-ooh-ooh)
I want to run and hide
Right now
Avarice and greed
Are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Drowning in the oceans of history
Travelling the world, you're in search of no good
But I'm sure you'll build your Sodom, like you knew you would
Using all the good people for your galley slaves
As your little boat struggles through the warning waves
But you don't pay
You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow, yeah
You gonna pay tomorrow
Save me (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Save me from tomorrow (ooh-ooh-ooh)
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no, no-no (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Oh, save me (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Save me from tomorrow (ooh-ooh-ooh)
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools, no, no, no-no (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Where's it coming from?
Or where's it going to?
It's just a
It's just a ship of fools
Yeah, yeah
Through all of it
(Yay!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzYhHZJBKA
Their edited, updated 2019 #political #MusicVideo.
Longtime fave tune.
#music #GenX #ActivistMusic #geopolitics #warmongers #AntiWar #AntiCapitalist #MusicTherapy
Appropriate for today for many reasons.
"Ship of Fools" -- World Party
@minnfinn Another 80's song that lifts my spirits...
Private Revolution by #WorldParty!
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