Sometimes musicians are like visionaries because the songs they write play out like scripts many years later. Will Varley's "We don't believe you" (written in 2015) is exactly one of these songs with words like this:
"All the headlines feel like nightmares when I'm lying in my bed
If the virus doesn't kill us someone might chop off our heads"
and...
"...no man has the right
To tell another human being that their access is denied
To any corner of this planet or any moment of their lives"
Sounded weird a few years ago yet today I doubt I will ever again be able to eat in a restaurant in this country without a vax pass. My access has indeed been denied by one man who should not have the right!
I particularly like the song because it appears to have zero budget and really it's just a simple performance from a man standing there with his guitar. Mistakes and all. Yet still it works so very well. And as time goes on his words become more poignant than ever.
"And In the media offices all the paintbrushes are there
To fill the lines with black and white and fill our minds with fear
And pump us full of fashion and a dull sense of despair
'Til we're well behave consumers with no questions and no cares"
Russia war
Listening to the song again this morning I noticed another line which has new meaning now:
"And they’ll lie all day in Westminster, and they'll lie all day in court
And they'll lie about it later on the evening news reports
Til there's a hundred thousand bodies lying on the desert floor
And they'll point their guns at Russia and they'll start another war"
Sounded almost too ridiculous to be possible back in 2015 when he wrote it, yet here we are. The guns are pointed at Russia and the talk of town is war.
I find it helpful in situations like this to remind myself that pretty much all countries are controlled by a single evil entity so any wars are purely by design and ultimately nothing more than global pantomime to distract us and hold us in fear of a new perceived enemy only our government has the power to protect us from.
Another verse which stood out for me was this one:
"While imaginary money grows on electronic trees
And trickles through the masses and fuels the disease
Cause the only epidemic with no sign of a vaccine
Are the global corporations and their foreign policies"
Prophetic stuff I think you will agree.
Though I guess he didn't fully understand the mechanics of crypto at that time? I personally like to imagine we are not so much a part of the disease and much more a part of the solution!
Time will tell if I am right about that.
Will Varley's full lyrics here:
Well I don't know what I’m scared of, but I know that I am scared
All the headlines feel like nightmares when I'm lying in my bed
If the virus doesn't kill us someone might chop off our heads
But no-one chops down Yew trees on Parliament Square
And they’ll lie all day in Westminster, and they'll lie all day in court
And they'll lie about it later on the evening news reports
Til there's a hundred thousand bodies lying on the desert floor
And they'll point their guns at Russia and they'll start another war
And In the media offices all the paintbrushes are there
To fill the lines with black and white and fill our minds with fear
And pump us full of fashion and a dull sense of despair
'Til we're well behave consumers with no questions and no cares
But we don’t believe you / we don’t believe you
We don't believe you anymore
We don’t believe you / we don't believe you
We don't believe you anymore
And they'll pass the buck and cover it up and distort every hand
’Til the picture that they're painting is too hard to understand
And the canvas stretches over every border of every land
Cross the trade routes and religions and those bodies in the sand
And if we're after Britain first then we should probably be last
Before UK independence we should give back what isn't ours
Like the shirts and ties wear wearing made by slaves from afar
But those shirts and ties can't hide the emblems tattoo'd on their hearts
And we should give back all the oceans and the islands and the sky
Cause they don't belong to any man and no man has the right
To tell another human being that their access is denied
To any corner of this planet or any moment of their lives
And we don't believe you / we don't believe you
We don't believe you anymore
We don't believe you / we don't believe you
We don't believe you anymore
And the music on the adverts plays like prisoners of war
Who've been forced to sell the weapons that they used to abhor
And if you tried to ask questions then they'll back you into corners
And say you can't ask questions if you haven't got the answers
While imaginary money grows on electronic trees
And trickles through the masses and fuels the disease
Cause the only epidemic with no sign of a vaccine
Are the global corporations and their foreign policies
Well, we don't believe you / we don't believe you
We don't believe you anymore
We don't believe you / we don't believe you
We don't believe you anymore
