If you go out on the streets today You’re in for a big surprise
If you go out on the streets today You’d better go in disguise
‘Cos Priti Patel, the Home Sec from hell,
Has taken away your right to rebel
And given Police the right
To decide you’re annoying.
Protests near to Parliament,
Have been outlawed,
You’ll find you can’t
Get close to have your say
And to stop you being heard
The cops could ban you if your name’s Steve Bray
Watch us freely march about
We love to sing and shout.
Whenever you fail to care
If you think you can shut us all up
You had better think again
Because we’re wired little teddy bears
You might have once thought
That we were allowed
To say what we had to say
Now being a Brit means
Zipping your lip and
Being kept far away
From people in power, you self-serving shower,
You get more repressive hour by hour
It’s Putin Patel we'd lock up for being annoying
Protests near to Parliament,
Have been outlawed,
You’ll find you can’t
Get close to have your say
And to stop you being heard
The cops could ban you if your name’s Steve Bray
Watch us freely march about
We love to sing and shout.
Whenever you fail to care
If you think you can shut us all up
You had better think again
Because we’re wired little teddy bears
Because we’re wired little teddy bears
Copyright asserted. Words revised 30 July 2021 by Martin Brooks