The Numb 90's
By well-wisher
Tue, 10 Apr 2018
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Apathy and Ecstacy;
everything is irony;
new TV reality
thats all the 90's meant to me.
everything is irony;
new TV reality
thats all the 90's meant to me.
Crass lad culture magazines;
nothing for a 90's teen;
no punks but the cyber kind;
a wasteland all that I could find.
nothing for a 90's teen;
no punks but the cyber kind;
a wasteland all that I could find.
Brand names would be fetishized;
my Tamagotchi pet would die
and into apathy I'd plunge
and drown myself in sounds of grunge.
my Tamagotchi pet would die
and into apathy I'd plunge
and drown myself in sounds of grunge.
But slacker culture they could keep;
dressed in layers but not deep.
I wanted to protest; campaign;
not kill myself like Kurt Cobain.
dressed in layers but not deep.
I wanted to protest; campaign;
not kill myself like Kurt Cobain.
Then worst of all; along came Blair;
I looked left and nothing was there
Britannia was cool they said
but Labour would be blue not red.
I looked left and nothing was there
Britannia was cool they said
but Labour would be blue not red.
So I stared at my magic eye
and to see something deeper, tried
as in slow, sadcore songs I drowned
those soulless 60's upside down.
and to see something deeper, tried
as in slow, sadcore songs I drowned
those soulless 60's upside down.
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aye, blair might have been
aye, blair might have been bad, but to look at what we've got now,
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love these lines:
love these lines:
"Apathy and Ecstacy"
"But slacker culture they could keep;
dressed in layers but not deep.
I wanted to protest; campaign;
not kill myself like Kurt Cobain."
Like you, there must have been many others, biding their time. Problem is the blue labour lot who won't let go, it's hard having to fight on two fronts
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