Plenty Icons In the Bar



We All Rappin To

The Icons

We All Rappin To

The Icons

Plenty Icons In The Bar

Plenty Icons In The Bar 

 

Mainly from conversation in The Alex

Grangetown

Wonderland Inn Sunderland

August 2011

 

 

<> What do you think of Che Guevara?

Do you think he is cool?

<> Yeah

Got the t shirt?

Maybe looked up to him?

Bed springs creaking

In

Private moments

Up

Right up

Bang, bang

Where is Uncle Sam?

Why hide a red under ye bed?

When he can be right up

Up against the wall

Of ye student digs

<> Ha, ha, ha

Is he an icon of your youth?

Him and the Spice Girls

<> Ha, ha, ha

I can see the little girl in you

It’s great when that happens

I can just see you jumping up and down on your bed

Teddy in hand

I really want this

I really want that

Do you Wannabe?

Or have you found your wings

And left all of that?

Stareing through the dim light

At Che

At night

Thinking

You can be my brother

Till this revolution ends

Then I will return

To my materialistic friends

Coz I really want this

But

I’d rather have that

So

Have you become

An armchair revolutionary?

Designer labels from Debenhams

Fuck the charity shop

<> Ha, ha

Tell me in your opinion

Why is the portrait of Che Guevara regarded as so iconic?

What is the main reason?

PAUSE:

Come on now

Tell the truth

What is the real reason?

Tell the truth

<> Because he looks Christlike

Do you think he does?

<> Yes

What does Christ look like?

<> Long hair

Beard

Robes

Have you seen him?

<> What do you mean?

Well how do you know what he looks like?

Have you met him?

<> Have you?

A few times

Sailing the seven seas

Watching dolphins

He was there

Standing right next to me

He is with me now

But you

Cannot see

Mary

The mother of Christ was travelling along the road

When she relised Jesus was not with her

She was disconsolate

As any mother would be at the thought of her 12 year old child missing

So she and the rest of the family back tracked in search of him

When they found him he was in the temple with a group of rabbis and preachers telling them about the Bible

And they were astonded that a child so young should have such a knowledge

Now then do you think that a person with such knowledge would not have known that it says in the Bible that a part of a woman's beauty is her hair?

<> What do you mean?

Let me look into your eyes

They are so beautyful

You have beautyful hair

Are you wearing Harmony hairspray?

<> Ha, ha, ha

Part of the beauty of woman's hair is its length

In the Bible it says woman should have long hair

And men

Should have short

Jesus would have know such

And as likely as not he would have had short hair

The fact is Che Guevara does not look like Christ

He looks like a fucking hairy hippy

<> Ha, ha, ha
But everyone knows Jesus had long hair

Well young lady

Read the Bible

And there you will find it written

That’s why in the army short back & sides is the rule

But in Two Seven we wore it a little longer

Coz we were cool

<> But every image of him shows him with long hair

That’s because Renaissance artists depicted him as such

Then everyone copied the style and that is why you now think he had long hair

Have you ever thought of how Jesus might look if you saw him?

<> How?

With long hair

<> But I thought you said he would have short hair

Well imagine Jesus in heaven

With his Armani suit on

He looks in his wardrode

And thinks

Shit I have to put my robes on

And have long hair & a beard

Otherwise those bastards down there will not recognise me

Ha, ha, ha

<>