count yourself lucky for the minutes the hours and the days we were singing in the street when david bowie passed away and he left behind a message without a shadow of a doubt stand up for what is right and stand up for it now and i m slap bang in the middle of this life that i lead and it feels as though society s collapsing as the seams and everybody knows it s happening still nobody does anything welcome to 2016 with it s referendums and it s algorithms the sudden rise of fascism that s fuelled by a religious war the return of the football hooligan you could say goodbye to muhammed ali say hello to 2016 well you can say goodbye to prince as well say hello to laws that still prevent gay people getting married the dinosaurs are not evolving the matters go from bad to worse you can see it in the eyes of homelessness but that don t bother nigel farage boris johnson or michael gove self righteous self serving twats telling us we want our country back until we re voted out by a majority who are petrified of refugees and not economic slavery but i whitewashed my facebok feed so everyone believes what i believe i believe in this stuff don t sell papers hey look sun here s a another terrorist here s some more terror here s some more terrorism here s another dead kid without any reason some more propaganda and public relations another bloody war followed by a paycut here s a new prime minister here s a new king welcome to 2016 well i remember when terry wogan died they were flogging off the public land so that they could frack underneath to please a few conservatives ignoring scientific fact that it s bad for the planet and it s bad for your health the media government corporation sold your soul to their old school friends with a levels in the panama papers and gcses in arms manufacturers the transatlantic t tip deal is pretty much the end of us all and the only ones who benefit are the very people that invented it and the lesser of two evils wins time and time and time again welcome to 2016 born to lose and live to win the words of lemmy kilmister who lived his live without regret but he was said of the state of the world that he left and guy clark didn t sing for the money and howard marks did what he wanted victoria she made us laugh and dj derek made us dance and now we re holding back the tears more than any other year and they re playing a merle haggard song when donald duck steps to the throne and tells us to hate mickey mouse if we wanna live in walt disney s house an angry white man on a microphone with his finger on a button and a nuclear code but here we are right now today just hoping that it will all go away but we know that s not how the world works and if we wanna sort it out we gotta do it ourselves try to picture a planet that you wanna live on if you want to build a future got to start from the bottom try to think of something you can do to help it doesn t matter how small everything is gonna count right now we need you to be the best that you can be and try to make a difference in 2017