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Politics For Kids

from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat by Ren Stedman

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    This is my second album - another DIY home grown and home recorded suitcase of songs that I've been carrying around festivals over this past year.

    Some songs you'll have heard me playing live a lot in fields and around campfires and some songs are ones that I've sat on for a year and let them grow into new versions of themselves.

    Either way, I hope you like what you hear and that some of the songs can can give you the same comfort they did to me when I wanted to hide in my wardrobe when everything else felt too difficult.

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We listen to the tv
and believe the things that we see
from the titles of the papers that we read
We blame the kids for what they’ve done
by fighting for the opposition
they didn’t not win anyway
it’s only their own futures that they want to fucking save

who do we think we are we weren’t around
90’s kids weren’t dying off when maggie shut the miners towns
how dare we care about the news
it’s not as if our generation’s filling someone else shoes
when you’re gone
you think that we’re wrong
kids can’t have the benefit
of talking about politics
they’re only go and make these matters worse
so go and sit behind your screens or occupy the libraries and learn

The parents tell their kids
that they do not know anything
they haven’t lived half of their lives not knowing how to pay for shit
But I am sure that their degrees weren’t filled with loans and admin fees
they studied media for free and follow mediocrity

Who do we think we are we haven’t lived
long enough to know our minds and know our stance on politics
how dare we care what lies ahead
it’s only our own futures that we’re fighting to respect
so surely my view
is worth the argue
but you say discourse is a luxury
that comes with age and families
we’ll only go and screw the system more
or rally up the troops and let the country know that it’s worth fighting for

But May means May
And though I don't want her to stay
You cannot call a second vote when things don't go the way you said you want them
And I despise them
These liars who call out each other
But no-one really fights them
And I’m the same, where do I fit
I call my songs a protest
But I don’t understand politics
how knowing that the people’s vote
was not meant to be final though
they had it in their heads we wouldn’t fight
to call out all the liars and scoundrels and the likes
of May and friends
their time will end
and we’re the ones who’ll pick the pieces up when it this goes wrong in parliament

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from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat, released December 30, 2019

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Ren Stedman Southend On Sea, UK

Ren Stedman, he's the acoustic guy who looks metal, has a buzzing vocal, plays from the marrow of his bones and will rip your heart out with his honesty. A fierce, fable wielding force of acoustic punk poetry.

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