North Sea Bubble Lyrics - Singles - Billy Bragg

I went out drinking with Thomas Paine 

He said that all revolutions are not the same 

They are as different as the cultures 

That give them birth 

For no one idea 

Can solve every problem on earth 

So don't expect it all to happen 

In some prophesied political fashion 

For people are different 

And so are nations 

You can borrow ideas 

But you can't borrow situations 

In Leningrad the people say 

Perestroika can be explained this way 

The people who told us 

That two and two is ten 

Are now trying to tell us 

That two and two is five 

We're living in a north sea bubble 

We're trying to spend our way out of trouble 

You keep buying these things but you don't need them 

But as long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom 

My American friends don't know what to do 

But they'll wait a long time for a Beverley hills coup 

War! what is it good for 

It's good for business