Song Description
"A song about neighborhood problems. Just like Bob Dylan's Neighborhood Bully."
Song Length |
3:18 |
Genre |
Pop - Electro, Electronic - General |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Subject |
Apartheid, State |
Similar Artists |
Elvis Costello |
Language |
English |
Lyrics
THE USUAL VICTIM
Once the Nazis were the other team
but it looks like he learnt their schemes
anything's allowed for him it seems
even pouring blood in streams
He's the Usual Victim
The world must surely understand
he's got a bad trauma in his head
this is why he acts like he was mad
this is why he's making a bloodshed
He's the Usual Victim
Now he treats them so strictly
they can't even move or sneeze
and if they want to drink or breath
they must before say please
and if they try to react
by spitting in his yard
he'll make them run under
a sharp rain of shards
He's the Usual Victim
He's punishing the people
who committed the crime
to be in the wrongest place
at the wrongest time
At the movies they're only showing films
about the Usual Victim
No script, no frame, no tearjerker scene
on the casualties of his whim
because they only give Oscars
to flicks about the scars
of the Usual Victim
Now the news are talking again bout
the horror from the past
so that it'd be rude to criticize
how he slaughters and destroys
never forget his tragedy and its size
though the same means he now employs
he must be forever and ever
the Usual Victim