The Zealot Gene

Album: The Zealot Gene (2022)
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  • Half of us are in the apple
    Half of us are in the pie
    All of us are in the pudding
    When the last bus has gone by
    Someone has to take the high road
    Someone has to make the bed
    No-one has the right to tell you
    To lie down when all is said

    The black and white, the stereotype
    The polarising pitch at play
    While some of us sit in between
    Interminable shades of grey
    No need to walk the tightrope
    Set out on that great divide
    The balance scales may tremble
    But the featherweights are on our side

    Carrying the Zealot gene
    Right or left, no in between
    Beware, beware the Zealot gene
    Naked flame near gasoline

    The populist with dark appeal
    The pandering to hate
    Which xenophobic scaremongers
    Deliver on a plate
    To tame the pangs of hunger
    And satisfy the lust
    Slave to ideology
    Moderation bites the dust

    Bee buzzing in your bonnet
    And a wasp right up the bum
    A V-8 under hood
    A cocked hammer under thumb
    Ear-splitting Twitter thunder
    And a screaming banshee wail
    You got too many opinions
    And a tomcat by the tail

    Carrying the Zealot gene
    Right or left, no in between
    Beware, beware the Zealot gene
    Naked flame near gasoline

    Carrying the Zealot gene
    Right or left, no in between
    Beware, beware the Zealot gene
    Naked flame near gasoline

    Half of us are in the apple
    Half of us are in the pie
    All of us are in the pudding
    When the last bus has gone by
    Someone has to take the high road
    Someone has to make the bed
    No-one has the right to tell you
    To lie down when all is said

    The black and white, the stereotype
    The polarising pitch at play
    While some of us sit in between
    Interminable shades of grey
    No need to walk the tightrope
    Set out on that great divide
    The balance scales may tremble
    But the featherweights are on our side

    Carrying the Zealot gene
    Right or left, no in between
    Beware, beware the Zealot gene
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