Guinness

Lyrics

[Verse: billy woods] On the TV, I see fire in their eyes Fire in the streets from the firescape, I watch it eat I watch its teeth Dream fire could burn it clean But it's a greasy sheen, burn blue and green Built their house with brick, scraped the mortar in between Yo' 'on't need a door if you get e'rything you need, need more, first thought when I get the cream Cold light pourin' from the screens, mute, it's the eyes where you hear the screams, bag full of loot bulgin' at the seam Everything a little shabbier than it seem Than it seem, shabbier than it seem Than it seem Took it all and came home empty, they won't go gently, the whole world in my mobile, it took centuries The glow unendin', the show upended like cop cars spooked by the door, I'm a sentry [Chorus: billy woods] Smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run Grab and run, grab and run, sma- Smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, smash, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run, grab and run [Outro: Dambudzo Marechera, Wilson Katiyo] I know this may sound like rather, um um, impractical criticism, but um, uh, when you met me at the airport at some point, I um um, y- y- but um, you've joined the ministry of information Yeah, but I mean, what's happening to us? We are all becoming bureaucrats We are becoming bureaucrats, because there has never been, you know, wait a minute, we are, we, our generation has got a lot of problems. There's never been a tradition of us writing whereby people just sit and be able to live and write. In any case, you know that from anyway, anyway No, no, my point is [?] The point is, now we are trying to earn our living and write at the same time Yes but, you see, um, um, points of principles (laughter) cannot be given up just because one has got to eat I'm not, I don't see which principle I have given at all, I see...