"Shuffle About" genre: Groove
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	Don't need many words to describe this song, which rails against the ritual humiliation of the individual by the state, set to a slithering groove and a jazzy chorus. Featuring Gentleman's Rap, which is basically poetry spoken with strong rhythmic sense, in an english accent. Gosh!
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	Story Behind the Song Suddenly, right in the middle of your life, you are no longer an automatic asset to potential employers. To make matters worse, when you get unemployment benefit you have to endure a strange hostility and a kind of initiation where you must demonstrate your subservience and how grateful you are for the state's magnanimous hand-out. It needn't be like this, but there's a predjudice behind it... Lyrics Every second Thursday At an un-natural time I go to take my place In an unbroken line Of misplaced machine parts The waste of industry The dross of commerce There we stand Cogs with no teeth And we shuffle about The end of the line Is drawn on bullet-proof glass Behind which we watch Six men drinking tea And a woman with thin lips In a lifeless dress That matches the grey of the walls And the cabinets And her eyes As we shuffle about She punches in the code Software sighs and dies She's pulling my strings from behind the glass And there's laughter in her eyes So sorry, she intones There must be some mistake Why don't you join the queue at the enquiry desk You won't have long to wait And wait… And wait… Every second Thursday For the rest of my time I'm going to claim my place On this assembly line Of rusted machine parts Devoid of industry …and behind the glass in a digital web sits spider-woman giving terminal time to her living dead the growing line of displaced people decrepit and worn like untended machines the obsolete heart of a decaying colossus the dance of a derelict abandoned, alone and all you can do tossed away like old salad is adjust your dressing form a queue And shuffle about

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