1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
waiting for the great leap forwards
Here's the full thing
It may have been camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
or on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
to sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
that the third world is just around the corner
2.
in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded
by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded *
that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
at the first hurdle
3.
In the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear
is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beer
and someone asking questions and basking in the light
of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
4.
Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses *
while looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the great leap forwards
5.
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
even after closing time, there's still parties to be hosted *
you can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
while you're
waiting for the great leap forwards
oh 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
waiting for the great leap forwards
well here comes the future and you cant run from it
if you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it
waiting for the great leap forwards
well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
from top of the pops to drawing the dole
you're waiting for the great leap forwards
if no-one out there understands
start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
waiting for the great leap forwards
in a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
but this is reality so give me some room
waiting for the great leap forwards
so join the struggle while you may
the revolution is just a T-shirt away
waiting for the great leap forwards
d is a downstroke
the same fingering as the other lines of the verse, but move the end bit
all up one string
Have fun
Nic