By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

By Caesar Kagho

It has reached the critical point in this country for us to ask pertinently if we are being fooled by our leaders or we are collectively fooling ourselves? For, no sooner had we voted in a new government than we’d be itching to disengage them like a bone in the throat.

And no sooner had we voted them in than they too would be itching to campaign for another tenure!

This has been the sordid case for the state and the federal governments over the grueling years since the re-birth of democracy in this country, Nigeria. The arduous process to dismantle these menacing entities demands an eclectic approach and from all indications, the social media inclusive, it is obvious that we still have not got it right.

The song “WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN” by the most powerful British rock band (decibel wise), The Who, from Shepard’s Bush, London, and written by the band’s virtuoso guitarist Pete Townshend in 1971(when I was in class four at Government College Ughelli),  is a case study relating to modern political life since the 1960s. In its May 26th 2006 issue, the conservative National Review magazine published a list of the 50 greatest conservative songs. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was ranked song number one.

Music has helped immensely in shaping, influencing and changing people, ideas and societies. Music from time immemorial is perhaps one of the most powerful media to send messages of philosophical dimensions for social reforms world-wide in the midst of availability of books and schools.

We hear music on radio, TV, in cars, at parties and even in the streets in our every day life. But the class of music we have today is so banal, insipid and un-inspirational that we tend to over look the vagaries of life and society. The musicians of today are probably bereft of ideas relating to the relevant roles they have to play. You can of course be having a thrill from the music we have today but I hazard to believe that it is all cheap thrills because it stimulates practically no social, political, spiritual or any significant aspect of human aspiration what so ever.

Good songs gradually control, change, influence and direct a better world view and especially how to refine societies and attitudes particularly like ours that has been openly misguided and abused for a very long time by people who either seized power or get voted for by contestable means. It is always our choice to moralize on songs like those of Fela’s which to me have been some of the most caustic and poignant and are still more relevant than ever before.

We perhaps have more educated and well-grounded characters today running this country but sadly education has been disregarded for the choice of abysmal depravity; and more graduates are being churned out into the system and only God knows how many will think positively about national advancement and observe the just medium between avarice and profusion.

Like in the USA, England, Australia and the rest of the world, the best socially critical music has been played by the Bob Dylans in the periods between the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and there is little expectation from the acts of today particularly in our country, still developing with the tendency that most people have been embroiled in high magnitude of fleecing, graft, volte face agenda and unprecedented paranoia which are all bottled up but will surely explode one day. Won’t get fooled again opens with mesmerizing synthesizers followed by an explosive barrage of drums, bass and guitar.

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again, no, no

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

Yeaah!

There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again, no no

Yeaaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss