We Are All Bourgeois Now

We Are All Bourgeois Now - McCarthy

There's something wrong somewhere here

So through unclean streets

I made my way

With holes in my shoes

And my children asleep at my feet

I paid my way

In every town on the way

The people looked grey

The buildings looked healthy

But one day I met a man

With money to spare

He said he would tell me how it is

"The State " he began

"Has been propping up people too long

For far too long

We all got lazy and couldn't be bothered

To make our way through the world

But we are all bourgeois now

Once there was class war

But not any longer

Because baby we are all bourgeois now

So go out and make your way in the world

We're free to choose

We're all free to choose

We're all free to choose

We're free to choose

In booming Britain we all work together

To raise ourselves in the world

Each of us knows someone

Who has done well for themselves

So well for themselves"

"Thank you" I said as I left

"I'll be on my way

I see how it is"

We are all bourgeois now

And somehow I'll raise myself in the world

I'm free to choose

We're all free to choose

We're all free to choose

I'm free to choose

We're all bourgeois now

We're all bourgeois now

We're bourgeois now