LIFE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE EASY
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Chorus:
Life was never meant to be easy
But it’s harder for some,
than for others,
Life was never meant to be easy
But it’s the working man who
mostly must suffer.
Verse 1:
Now Malcolm tells us all
a load of bullshit
Malcolm tells us all a pack of lies
Malcolm tells us life can’t be easy
When Malcolm speaks democracy dies.
Verse 2:
Now Paul ‘The Dork’ is shouting
loudly at us
Keating’s heaping us with foul abuse,
He thinks he is the greatest thing
since sliced bread
But frankly, we all think that
he is no use.
Verse 3:
Now Little Johnny wants to crush
the Unions
Now Little Johnny thinks he’s
big and brave,
But the voters stomped him out
three years back
His IR laws are safely in the grave.
Verse 4:
Now Kevin Rudd is just as bad
as Malcolm
And just as weak as poor old
Little John,
Now Labor is in power once again
Democracy is surely dead and gone.
Verse 5:
The Runner's running out of mad ideas
She’s beating up on all the unemployed,
Her whacky backy ideas are all over
And good times now can never be enjoyed.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
I wrote this song lyric c.1977, concentrating solely upon that feeble-minded idiot Malcolm Fraser. Then during the reign of error of Julia Gillard, I radically rewrote it.
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Written on 2017
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 02, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aBcxBxd exxfbf egahgxxh exxaixxi excxxxx exjdj xxx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,485 |
Words | 209 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 8, 8, 7, 5, 3 |
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