A Vocational Viewpoint / The Decline of English Murder

“I see no reason why the 5th November should ever be forgot”

Why not you may ask?

Two View Points as to why - Both from Alan Moore

Firstly let me attempt to present “A Vocational Viewpoint” from V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

Next:- A song “The Decline of English Murder” Lyrics by Alan Moore, Music by Joe Brown

"She sorts out her hair in the washroom at Preston services

Dries her hands under a notice that reads “Have you seen this child?”

And she nurses one tea for an hour in the cafeteria

Watching the truck drivers blind their fried eggs with the cutlery

And English murder

It’s all over her face

Just waiting until the right time, the wrong lay-by

There’ll be a photograph

With a bad 1970’s fringe and a look of uncertainty

Years later you’ll know the name

But not where you’ll know it from

And they emptied the terraced row with compulsory purchases

Reasoning that they would make more from the ground with the people gone

So he shuffles the half a mile to the nearest post office

When lads push into the queue he pretends he's’ not noticed them

And English murder

It’s all over his face

A low enough cold snap a high enough gas bill

You’ll skim the epitaph

And you’ll possibly notice his name like somebody you knew from school

There’ll be an off-the-peg verse where “sad” has been rhymed with “dad”

And the houses in which they have invested their city bonuses

Have increased the property prices and therefore the homelessness

Their scabby grey anti-climb paint and withdrawn amenities

In case socialising promotes anti-social behavior

And English murder

It’s all over the place

The bunches of flowers in pedestrian precincts

Your average psychopath

At least kills with a hammer or brick and not with greed and incompetence

And after two or three years maybe they’ll express remorse"

Now you have watched the videos, what is next?

You can buy a copy of the song “The Decline of English Murder” from http://www.occupationrecords.com - you can read more about the song here http://occupationrecords.com/news/?p=94

You can read Alan Moore's recent interview for Occupy Times here

http://theoccupiedtimes.co.uk/?p=7286

As far as I am concerned It's not what you do that necessarily matters it is that you remember you do have a choice, no matter what anyone else may say