[Verse: billy woods]
On the TV, I see fire in their eyes
Fire in the streets from the firescape, I watch it eat
I watch its teeth
Dream fire could burn it clean
But it's a greasy sheen, burn blue and green
Built their house with brick, scraped the mortar in between
Yo' 'on't need a door if you get e'rything you need, need more, first thought when I get the cream
Cold light pourin' from the screens, mute, it's the eyes where you hear the screams, bag full of loot bulgin' at the seam
Everything a little shabbier than it seem
Than it seem, shabbier than it seem
Than it seem
Took it all and came home empty, they won't go gently, the whole world in my mobile, it took centuries
The glow unendin', the show upended like cop cars spooked by the door, I'm a sentry
[Chorus: billy woods]
Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run
Grab and run, grab and run, sma-
Smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run
[Outro: Dambudzo Marechera, Wilson Katiyo]
I know this may sound like rather, um um, impractical criticism, but um, uh, when you met me at the airport at some point, I um um, y- y- but um, you've joined the ministry of information
Yeah, but
I mean, what's happening to us? We are all becoming bureaucrats
We are becoming bureaucrats, because there has never been, you know, wait a minute, we are, we, our generation has got a lot of problems. There's never been a tradition of us writing whereby people just sit and be able to live and write. In any case, you know that from anyway, anyway
No, no, my point is [?]
The point is, now we are trying to earn our living and write at the same time
Yes but, you see, um, um, points of principles (laughter) cannot be given up just because one has got to eat
I'm not, I don't see which principle I have given at all, I see...
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