A Little Opus

TitleA Little Opus
ArtistLittle Comets
AlbumLife Is Elsewhere
Release Date2012-10-08
DescriptionFrom Little Comets' website: “I heard an interview a couple of years ago with David Lammy in which he took to task the very safe state school selection policy (if at all….) of top universities… Very few people from certain areas are admitted to these institutions: they don’t even bother looking. Combined with my own educational experiences this got me thinking… When I fumbled across this report by the Sutton trust (http://www.suttontrust.com/research/the-educational-backgrounds-of-mps/1MPs_educational_backgrounds_2010_A.pdf) talking about the make up of cabinet and parliament it became pretty clear that our executive, judiciary and parliament are very skewed institutions populated by other very skewed institutions: it is a closed self fulfilling prophecy that surely does not bode well for decision making on a social policy level… Da da da da. Anyway, this bothered me so I wrote about it… Plus michael gove is surely an android designed to be a glib wrecking ball to the welfare state.”
Lyrics[Verse]
You feel the weight of imposition
Bear heavy on your own decision, decision
Fate to face, they multiply
The crush of language
And the cedent school ties
The subtle angles of tradition, tradition

[Chorus]
Eton for portent
St. Paul's for context
Oxbridge for vision
No need to make this popular
One man for progress
One man for past tense
One man for vision
No need to make this popular

[Verse]
With your school cap blowing in the breeze
It's about time
That we made education
Not a funnel but a wide line
Need to youth as Gove to tact
One million faces
That are staring straight past
A mix of ignorance and fission, fission

[Chorus]
Eton for portent
St. Paul's for context
Oxbridge for vision
No need to make this popular

One man for progress
One man for past tense
One man for vision
No need to make this popular
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Of your Old Boys club