Throw Him Out He's Breaking My Heart

I have a warm heart
I care deeply for people
The world should be fairer
The world should be fairer
If you ask me

Oh throw him out before he breaks my heart
Throw him out he's breaking my heart
Throw him out before he breaks my heart
Throw him out he's breaking my heart

Why don't they give more
To the poor? Why don't they?
They should give more
They should look after old people
And the ill

So throw him out before he breaks my heart
Throw him out he's breaking my heart
Throw him out because he's breaking my poor heart in two
Throw him out he's breaking my heart

Use your brain
Why don't you use your brain? 
For warm hearts can stop no one
And fine feelings explain nothing
They change nothing

So throw him out before he breaks my heart
Throw him out he's breaking my heart
Throw him out because he's breaking my poor heart in two
Throw him out he's breaking my heart

[the next section is very hard to figure out]

Just go outside
You won't be sold
Sin certain sin
We won't give in (??)

Just go outside
We walk on sand (??)
We find we can (??)
We won't use guns deserves to be (??)

So throw him out before he breaks my heart
Throw him out he's breaking my heart
Throw him out because he's breaking my poor heart in two
Throw him out he's breaking my heart

[We gonna say to the whole goddamn government
Stick 'em up motherfucker, this is a holdup
We come for what's ours]

notes:

Malcolm:

This was another song that sounded very good when Tim demoed it, but finally turned out fairly poor. It sounds lethargic and there are too many voices at the end. The theme of the song I took up
several times in subsequent songs. It's a criticism of introspection, which leads nowhere, and a plea for action, even on an individual level.

While I have no idea who "him" is referring to specifically, it's obviously some sort of politician.  Perhaps Malcolm meant to leave it open to a general interpretation.

The sound bite at the end was also used by McCarthy-worshippers the Manic Street Preachers as an intro to the 1991 Heavenly mix of their track Spectators of Suicide.  There, we get a little more of what the speaker is saying:

So the concept is this, basically
We're gonna walk on this nation
We're gonna walk on this racist power structure
And we're gonna say to the whole damn government:
"Stick 'em up motherfucker
This is a hold up
We've come for what's ours!"

found on: The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth

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