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When the Controversial Artist Became a Middle​-​Class Commodity

from Beat Nostalgia by Captain Polaroid

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Our work will hang in the Tate someday
as an expression of free speech.
Independence will prevail,
but for now we will have to make do with the streets.
We will have to make do.
We'll buy paper and blu-tack and paint
and set up our own gallery.
The underground won't hold us forever.
No, the underground won't hold us forever.

Those middle-class citizens,
all they want is their piece of rebellion
hanging on their walls, hanging in their halls
to prove that they're still alive.

The clinics and the councils couldn't stop us.
Paris and London couldn't stop us,
but the cities won't hold us forever.
No, the cities won't hold us forever.

If we put our paintings up for sale,
auction them to the highest bidder.
Who will that reward?
No one will applaud this capitalist measure of success.

If ideas create a sense of worth
we don't need money to make it work.
But we can't remain penniless forever,
our bodies they need food and they need shelter.

Those middle-class citizens,
they shall have their piece of rebellion,
hanging on their walls, hanging in their halls
hanging on their walls, hanging in their halls!

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from Beat Nostalgia, released December 1, 2010
Written, recorded and performed by CP

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