A Conversation with Billy Bragg about the Purpose of Art

[00:12.38] I don't come here with solutions
[00:15.26] I come to you with ideas
[00:18.36] I don't get no retribution
[00:21.63] Can't make the bad thoughts disappear
[00:24.54] I want to make great art that doesn't sell
[00:27.50] Tell a couple of contemporaries to go to hell
[00:30.98] I don't know how to save the planet
[00:34.14] But complaining doesn't help
[00:37.09] I don't come here with an answer
[00:40.23] Nor do I think that I can
[00:43.38] I'm the party's over dancer
[00:46.71] Just the cleaners and the band
[00:55.96] And I'm not trying to present fiction
[00:59.05] And tell you that it is fact
[01:02.26] I don't care whose wares you're pitching
[01:05.32] I don't give a fuck about all that
[01:08.55] I was poured into this body
[01:11.74] For just one important thing
[01:14.82] Nothing's ever gonna kill me
[01:18.04] If I can play guitar and sing
[01:21.20] I don't come here with an answer
[01:24.30] Nor do I think that's my job
[01:27.41] I'm the party's over dancer
[01:30.62] In the car park smoking bongs
[01:34.03] I don't come here with an answer
[01:36.99] Nor do I think that I could
[01:39.98] I'm the party's over dancer
[01:43.27] Pulling shapes I don't think I should
[01:49.85] Should
[01:52.70] Should
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