See You Next Tuesday

Without warning, Julian Cope released a new single on Friday. It's a song that he's been regularly playing on his solo acoustic tours since at least 2014, including this rather fine version performed on one of his last gigs before the UK lockdown in 2020:

The single is a full band recording and precursor to a new album, England Expectorates, and the lyrics have been updated to reflect on the clowns currently living at 10 Downing Street.

Here comes a Greedhead battering with your gun

That cunt’s asleep, don’t know his time has come

Find a bridge and push him off

Raise your Kalashnikov

He is insane, I’m so pissed off

 

Cunts can fuck off (x 4)

 

Here comes a priest in the pay of a Nazi pope

Do like Black Sabbath, ring that fucker at the end of a rope

Before I leave this town, I will burn your churches down

They are insane, I’m so pissed off

 

Cunts can fuck off (x 4) 

 

An opportunity to get some more young men killed 

Defending freedom, overspending, are we all blue pilled? 

In far Afghanistan, Joe Biden left his planes 

Tax the poor we’ll need some more for Ukraine 

 

Cunts can fuck off (x 4) 

 

We're stuck indoors but Boris won’t go without 

He made the rules but Boris won’t go without 

History won’t forget him and Carrie Antoinette 

He’s a conniving privileged get 

 

Cunts can fuck off (x 4) 

 

I’m sick and tired of the Woke celebrity

The metropolitan luvvies of the BBC 

You must think this and this

Methinks you take the piss

We know her paycheck's smaller than his. 

 

Cunts can fuck off (x 4)  

 

OK, get ready for the festival ending, slow down!

 

I’m making lists of all the people I love

And all the cunts who should fuck off

You’re taking chances if you’re living near me

'cause I’m a cunt who’s so pissed off

‘till then, I’m biding my time

Feeding my rhyme

Healing my mind...  

The CD single sold out within a couple of hours of being posted on the Head Heritage website (yep, I was nowhere near it at the weekend) but it's available as a WAV download for one English pound (or equivalent currency across the world)

Of course, the Arch Drude isn't the first JC to record a song with a similar sentiment and use of the C-word. This popped up as a hidden track at the end of Jarvis Cocker's debut solo album in 2006:

 

Well, did you hear? There's a natural order
Those most deserving will end up with the most
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top
Well I say, "Shit floats"

 

If you thought things had changed
Friend, you'd better think again
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Oh yeah

 

Now the working classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let 'em all kill each other
And get it made overseas
That's the word, don't you know
From the guys that's running the show
Let's be perfectly clear, boys and girls
Oh cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Oh yeah

Oh yeah

 

Feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails
Find a school near the top of the league
In theory I respect your right to exist
I will kill you if you move in next to me
And it stinks, yeah it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
But the takings are up by a third, so
Cunts are still running the world, yeah
Cunts are still running the world
Oh yeah

 Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world

 

The free market is perfectly natural
Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?
It's the ideal way to order the world
"Fuck the morals, does it make any money?"

 

If you don't like it, then leave
Or use your right to protest on the street
Yeah, use your right but don't imagine that it's heard
Not while cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world, yeah
Cunts are still running the world, yeah
Cunts are still running the world, oh
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world
Cunts are still running the world 

 

Cunts Can Fuck Off (Live @ Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, 15 February 2020): Julian Cope 

(Cunts Are Still) Running The World (Album Version): Jarvis Cocker (2006)