We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Broken Biscuits

from Orpheus & Swan by David Breslin

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £0.40 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Well, you wake up and it’s sunny
But the news just isn’t funny
On the radio.
It’s a lovely day outside
The things you do should give you pride
And yet it isn’t so.

And you try to drown that feeling
In Co-op Fairtrade Darjeeling
But surrender looks appealing
When you recollect your daily bread
Comes wrapped in evil plastic
And John Lennon’s dead
And no-one but the birds
Believed a word he said.
The news is just a token
That the human world’s been broken
All along.

CHORUS:
‘Cos it’s all just broken biscuits
Broken biscuits ever since you heard the call
But you do love broken biscuits
Don’t we all, don’t we all?
Oh, it’s all just broken biscuits
Broken biscuits, catch the pieces as they fall
But you do love broken biscuits
Don’t we all?


So you study Adam Smith
The entire capitalist myth
To know your enemy
And your self-loathing is intense
When parts of it start to make sense
You wish you couldn’t see.

But there’s always some new cause
Some despot digging in the claws
Amid the demonstration’s roars
You can feel glad that you feel troubled
That your Western life, though modest
Is quite comfortable
Compared to folks in Bangladesh
Your struggle’s dull.
You hope you’re really helping
Not just gesturing and yelping
In the dark.
CHORUS

So I’m begging you, keep fighting
Arguing, protesting, writing
All the things you do.
You are really quite sublime
I speak as someone quite supine
Who thinks the world of you.

And your doubting, though dramatic
Means you’re not just some dogmatic
Trotskyite on automatic,
You’re a thinking, feeling person
Who can rally to the flag
But gives a damn what’s true.
Your motive is compassion
Not red versus blue.
When you get that sinking feeling
Please come drink Fairtrade Darjeeling
Tea with me.
CHORUS

credits

from Orpheus & Swan, released December 3, 2020

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

David Breslin image

David Breslin UK

Singer-songwriter based in York, UK.

contact / help

Contact David Breslin

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like David Breslin, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now