The story, the how did it come to this story
How did it come to this?
We need to tell one another stories
About the sort of world we want to live within

It’s a moment of great opportunity
So many certainties have been ripped up
The world as it’s narrated to us politically
Has been shown not to hold at all

I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different
and I don’t mean just different to how it is now
but different to what the now
was like before we went into what is now the now

Well I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different, uh and I don’t mean just different to how it is now but different to what the now was like before we went into what is now the now

Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis

What all of us should do is to make a big list
A sort of stock take / of what was normal
Which aspects now feel really rather shit?
We shouldn’t treat what we had before as unchangeable

I hope to have a conversation about
What it means to allow people to be poor
Because that’s what’s happened
it isn’t just that some people have become poor

We’ve allowed that to continue / patterns of consent
Patterns of consent / the way that we live
The way that we work the way that we consume
The way that we consume the way that we consume

It's revealed um what that economy required people to do to themselves and to one another. Uh the amount of money that was being generated within it… came from particular human interactions, and those human interactions are the ones that the government want to get restarted as quickly as possible. This is a straightforward example of exploitation, dressed up as the freedom to work.

Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis

I just want happiness to spread
An outpouring of a desire to be kind, um
that desire to try to do good / to do good
extended to strangers in the future, um

Someone has to fetch it
Someone has to load it
Someone has to send it
Someone has to deliver it

We press the button
I’m very lucky
Living your life itself
is a political act

So I think normal people need to want to be involved.
I think normal people need to want to be involved and and need to think that they have a right to be involved in voicing their opinions as to how things will be different. And that will mean uncomfortable conversations because not everyone will think in the same way that we do, not everyone when they have the vision of the world that that they would like to fight for would be fighting on the same side. Um and so it it does mean having uncomfortable conversations with people who view the world differently to you, uh cause I don't think there's any easy route.
I don't think there's any easy route.

So where do those conversations actually take place? That's a difficult one isn't it?

I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different
and I don’t mean just different to how it is now
but different to what the now
was like before we went into what is now the now

Someone has to fetch it
Someone has to load it
Someone has to send it
Someone has to deliver it
We press the button
I’m very lucky
Living your life itself
is a political act

Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis