Spanner in the Works (1986} A Seditious Luddite's Ballade

Big wheels keep on turning round and round
Grind my soul into the ground
Cog move machine, screw us up badly
Hell~bent for doom round here sadly
We've got to stop this pollution
Put a spanner in the works
You know it's a cert'
With a spanner in the works

The men with the money set the wheels a turning
And give the workers the money they're earning
And what do we think is the price that we pay
Destroy the Earth, we're doing it today
It's not a good situation
Put a spanner in the works
You know it's a cert'
With a spanner in the works

Chimneys reach up to the clouds
Belching out fumes the sky it shrouds
Wrap us up in vile useless confusions
Make us ill stops our evolution
To stop this intrusion
Put a spanner in the works
You know it's a cert'
With a spanner in the works

All night and day the factories are ringing
Weapons of war are what they are bringing
Destroy our Earth without a care
Where will we live, all in thin air
This is not what we need
Put a spanner in the works
You know it's a dead cert'
With a spanner in the works

To the men with the offices tall
There are those who'd break your walls
Your senseless kind of exploitation
Gives them no cause for hesitation
You know it's gonna come
WIth a spanner in the works
You know it's a cert'
With a spanner in the works