{"id":119,"date":"2006-02-12T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2006-05-01T02:57:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T16:57:40","slug":"suspended-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSUSPENDED SENTENCE…<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the paper – humdrum
\nHenley Regatta – page one
\nEat die – ho hum
\nPage three – big bum
\nGiving a lunatic a loaded gun
\nHe walks – others run
\nThirty dead – no fun
\nForeigners feature as figures of fun
\nDo something destructive chum<\/p>\n

Sit right down – write a letter to the Sun
\nSay… “Bring back hangin’ for everyone”<\/p>\n

They took my advice – they brought it back
\nNational costume was all-over-black
\nThere were corpses in the avenues and cul-de-sacs
\nPiled up neatly in six-man stacks
\nHanging from the traffic lights and specially made racks
\nThey’d hang you for incontinence and fiddling your tax
\nFailure to hang yourself justified the axe
\nA deedely dee, a deedely dum
\nLooks like they brought back hangin’ for everyone<\/p>\n

The novelty’s gone – it’s hell
\nThis place is a – death cell
\nThe constant clang of the funeral bells
\nThose who aren’t hanging are hanging someone else
\nThe people pay – the paper sells
\nIt’s plug ugly – sub-animal yells
\nDeath is unsightly – death smells
\nSwingin’ Britain – don’t put me on
\nThey’re gonna bring back the rope for everyone<\/p>\n

LYRICS \u00a9 JOHN COOPER CLARKE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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