Free Angela Davis Again

So they have closed down your Kindergarten
And you didn’t even open your invitation
You sat at home with your penicillin addiction
To avoid the grand narratives of your generation

You used to mess up every slippage of meaning
Every gesture of dissent you gave two shadows of doubt
Sunday morning take it as a Friday evening
Stay in and take your Stockholm syndrome out

And you’re always tryin’ to free Angela Davis again
While the discounts have all been withdrawn
You’re waving the memories of your flags
But your pigtailed girlfriend has gone
(Your pigtailed girlfriend has gone…)

It’s time you go and pinball your way back home
If you’re honest there weren’t that many prizes
There’s nothing but a breeze in your thunderdome
It’s just sad in all its many guises

You used to mess up every slippage of meaning
Every gesture of dissent you gave two shadows of doubt
Sunday morning take it as a Friday evening
Stay in and take your Stockholm syndrome out

Now take your zoot suit and your glad rags off
You should be oh so gentle to Veraguth’s fold
And you can hide your breathing, but not your cough
You’re old, it’s not just something you’ve been told

And you’re always tryin’ to free Angela Davis again
While the discounts have all been withdrawn
You’re waving the memories of your flags
But your pigtailed girlfriend has gone
(Your pigtailed girlfriend has gone…)

Muziek: Serge Epskamp