Merry Go Round -- the annotated version!
Okay, I thought 'Merry Go Round' was just a rip off pastiche of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen I tossed off one night, but everyone's favourite bassist bhata knows better and pointed out last night that it is obviously all about London and recent events here, thus...
Your hoopla stall caught fire -- hoopla = the Olympic rings -- London 2012
And your ferris wheel fell over -- the Millennium Wheel
You went down to the wire -- the last London mayoral election
Threw away your four leaf clover -- at which Ken Livingstone was ousted
Now you’re making hollow noises -- Boris Johnson is known for public speaking gaffes
What you lost will never be found
You squandered all your choices -- the Olympic campaign's vast budgetary deficit
Your merry go round broke down.
Your clowns came out on strike -- the recent strikes by London Transport
Because they know your bank is broken -- Metronet's bankruptcy
You can protest all you like -- the recent G20 protests
It might as well remain unspoken -- which the police suppressed violently...
The news it spreads so quickly
It's all around this town -- ...including the death of an innocent newsagent
Your menagerie is sickly
Your merry go round broke down.
You asked if I could see any chance, any way out
I can’t and if I could
For you, my dear, my sweetheart I rather doubt
That I ever would.
Your lions and your tigers
Have been shipped back home to Kenya
Your daring bareback riders -- possible reference to unprotected gay sex? which somehow remains popular...
Are missing too, and then ya -- ...and can lead to disastrous consequences
Found out your big top has gone too -- Millennium dome?
It crashed with a dreadful sound
Your credit line has fallen through -- Northern Rock?
Your merry go round broke down.
You asked if I could hold the line for you, and I said no
I asked if you could see
That the line was broken already and that I could show
You broke it for me.
Your dancing girls are tripping
And falling in the dirt
Your whole damn show is slipping
You’re about to lose your shirt
Now you can look but you can’t touch
What goes around just comes around
You’ve done too little much too much
Your merry go round broke down.
Your hoopla stall caught fire -- hoopla = the Olympic rings -- London 2012
And your ferris wheel fell over -- the Millennium Wheel
You went down to the wire -- the last London mayoral election
Threw away your four leaf clover -- at which Ken Livingstone was ousted
Now you’re making hollow noises -- Boris Johnson is known for public speaking gaffes
What you lost will never be found
You squandered all your choices -- the Olympic campaign's vast budgetary deficit
Your merry go round broke down.
Your clowns came out on strike -- the recent strikes by London Transport
Because they know your bank is broken -- Metronet's bankruptcy
You can protest all you like -- the recent G20 protests
It might as well remain unspoken -- which the police suppressed violently...
The news it spreads so quickly
It's all around this town -- ...including the death of an innocent newsagent
Your menagerie is sickly
Your merry go round broke down.
You asked if I could see any chance, any way out
I can’t and if I could
For you, my dear, my sweetheart I rather doubt
That I ever would.
Your lions and your tigers
Have been shipped back home to Kenya
Your daring bareback riders -- possible reference to unprotected gay sex? which somehow remains popular...
Are missing too, and then ya -- ...and can lead to disastrous consequences
Found out your big top has gone too -- Millennium dome?
It crashed with a dreadful sound
Your credit line has fallen through -- Northern Rock?
Your merry go round broke down.
You asked if I could hold the line for you, and I said no
I asked if you could see
That the line was broken already and that I could show
You broke it for me.
Your dancing girls are tripping
And falling in the dirt
Your whole damn show is slipping
You’re about to lose your shirt
Now you can look but you can’t touch
What goes around just comes around
You’ve done too little much too much
Your merry go round broke down.