Luyện nghe bài hát I Was a Maoist Intellectual

I always knew that I could seize the imagination
And the possibilities for transformation
I saw a nation in decay, but also a Permanent cultural revolution
Whenever I played my protest the press applauded me
out the red carpet, parted the Red Sea
But the petite bourgeois philistines away
They preferred their artists to nothing to say

How did I my time on earth? Now it can be revealed:
I was a intellectual in the entertainment field

I showed the people how they lived and them it was bad
Showed them the insanity inside the
And the archetypes and stereotypes that were my in trade
Toppled all the ivory that privilege had made
Though I tried to change your I never tried your patience
All I tried to do was to point out your
But the powers be took this to be a personal insult
And refused to me build my personality cult

How did I pass my time an earth, what on got into me?
I was a Maoist intellectual in the industry

I the normal world behind and started living in
A between dissolution and self discipline
I the midnight oil to build my way of seeing
A miner at the coal of meaning
The despised the songs I wrote which told the poor their worth
Told the shy to speak and told the to take the earth
But my downfall came from being three the working classes hated:
Agitated, and over-educated

How did I my time on earth, how did I bear witness?
As a intellectual in the entertainment business
And how was I in this world and in this industry?
As a Maoist in a business would be

I became a hotel doorman, I there on the doormat
Clutching my forgotten discs in their forgotten
Trying to hand them out to all the stars who in
The ones who hadn't like me, who hadn't lived in vain
I gave up ideology the day I lost my
I found a publisher for my little red books
I died the energy released by my frustration
Was enough for re-incarnation

But if I could live my life the last thing that I'd be
Is a intellectual in the music industry
No, if I could live my again I think I'd like to be
The man whose job is to stop the men who think me
Yeah! If l could live my life that'd be the thing to be
The man who the stumbling blocks
In the lives of the of me!