I started to wake up to the political realities of the world with the 2014 Morrissey album World Peace Is None of Your Business.
Well, I then decided to make it my business. Along with freedom, truth and justice. And basic humanity.
Interestingly this is the only studio album by Morrissey that is not on Spotify.
Here are four songs from the album with excerpts of the lyrics. If they worked for me maybe they can work for you too…
World peace is none of your business
You must not tamper with arrangements
Work hard and sweetly pay your taxes
Never asking what for
Oh oh, you poor little fool
Oh oh, you fool
Well if this is what it takes to describe
I’m not a man
“If you don’t get three As, ” her sweet daddy said
You’re no child of mine and as far as I’m concerned, you’re dead
Kick the bride down the aisle
Look at that cow in the field
It knows more than your bride knows now
She just wants a slave
To break his back in pursuit of a living wage
So that she can laze and graze
For the rest of her days
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