ABIDE BY THE RULES

EDELTRAUD ===> NARROW SCOPE
"Costa Café"
Hounslow High Street
Monday Evening
21/12/2015

ABIDE BY THE RULES

Abide by the rules, in cold abide,
and still enjoy your coffee outside,
and while having coffee, have a smoke,
Ignore the cold, the chilly wind, the rain,
winters repeating time and again,
you think as if this was some fucking joke.

chorus
This global anti-smoking hysteria,
this "health" dictatorship over free will,
forcing me outside the cafeteria,
catching a flue, a surer way to kill.

Your fucking system made me a smoker,
reflecting like a solitary walker,
as if I was indeed Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
If you have balls make cigarettes illegal,
but you don’t dare, your pay master's regal,
tobacco industry won't have it so.

chorus
This global, neo-liberal fart-ruling,
till "politics correct" have had its day,
and then humanity goes back to schooling,
and real politics can have a say.

(Instrumental verse)

per finire
At least in Greece they try but still they fail,
and everywhere you go you can smoke,
the EU directives didn't prevail,
some common sense still going round the clock.