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One Out, One In
Composer: Ed Hooke
Date of Composition/Copyright: 1988
Date of Recording: 2003
Guest Vocalist: Simon Alexander ‘Blob’ Wilkinson
Commentary
Another piece of 1980s British social commentary.
This duet contrasts the circumstances and motives
of 2 people on a socialist March for Jobs.
Blob described the end bit as sounding like a very mechanical office environment.
We march for jobs, the right to work.
to earn the keep of those I love.
Bleak queues we form to sign our names.
Calendars pass. This line's the same line.
Meanwhile back at the office
the software is almost complete,
taking tedium out of
mundane manual tasks...
Hours will be saved for us all.
Home sweet home where my heart fades
in shade unthreatened by light.
Stuck in shut snap-
family smiles of the past...
Are they the last of them?
We March for Jobs, the Right to Work
for others' sakes, for my job is safe.
The Government must change its ways
and face the truth staring in our faces.