North Sea Bubble Lyrics

The song North Sea Bubble is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Volume 2 in the year 2006 .



I went out drinking with Thomas Paine
He said that all revolutions are not the same
They're as different as the cultures that give them birth
For no one idea can solve every problem on earth

So don't expect it all to happen
In some prophesied political fashion
For people are different and so are nations
You can borrow ideas but you can't borrow situations

In Leningrad the people say
Perestroika can be explained this way
The people who told us that two and two is ten
Are now trying to tell us that two and two is five

We're living in a North Sea Bubble
We're trying to spend our way out of trouble
You keep buying these things but you don't need them
But as long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom

We're living in a North Sea Bubble
We're trying to spend our way out of trouble
My American friends don't know what to do
But they'll wait a long time for a Beverley Hills coup

We're living in a North Sea Bubble
We're trying to spend our way out of trouble
War, what is it good for?
It's good for business



Billy Bragg - Volume 2

Oct 2006

  1. Price I Pay
  2. Only One
  3. Short Answer
  4. Love Has No Pride [#][*]
  5. That's Entertainment [#][*]
  6. Bad Penny [#][*][Demo Version]
  7. Reason to Believe [Live][*]
  8. Raglan Road [Live][*]
  9. Everywhere
  10. Cindy of a Thousand Lives
  11. Trust
  12. God's Footballer
  13. Few
  14. Mother of the Bride
  15. Dolphins
  16. North Sea Bubble
  17. Rumours of War
  18. Wish You Were Her
  19. Body of Water
  20. Party of God [*]
  21. Just One Victory [Alternative Mix][*]
  22. Bread & Circuses [*]
  23. Revolution [*]
  24. Tighten Up Your Wig [*] - Billy Bragg,
  25. MBH [#][*]
  26. Gulf Between Us [#][*]
  27. Piccadilly Rambler [#][*]
  28. From Red to Blue
  29. Everybody Loves You Babe
  30. Sugardaddy
  31. Pict Song
  32. Space Race Is Over
  33. Northern Industrial Town
  34. Fourteenth of February
  35. King James Version
  36. Goalhanger
  37. As Long as You Hold Me [#][*][Demo Version]
  38. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? [#][*][Demo Version]
  39. Sugar Daddy [#][*][Demo Version]
  40. Qualifications [*]
  41. Never Had No One Ever [*]
  42. Thatcherites [*]
  43. All Fall Down [#][*]
  44. Jane Allen - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  45. Distant Shore - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  46. England, Half English - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  47. Some Days I See the Point - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  48. Baby Faroukh - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  49. Another Kind of Judy - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  50. He'll Go Down - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  51. Dreadbelly - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  52. Tears of My Tracks - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  53. Billericay Dickie [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  54. Mansion on the Hill [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  55. Glad and Sorry [#][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  56. Yarra Song [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  57. You Pulled the Carpet Out [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  58. Mystery Shoes [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  59. 1 2 3 4 [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  60. Dry Bed [Band Version][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  61. Danny Rose [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  62. She Smiled Sweetly [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
  63. Saturday Boy [DVD][Live][*]
  64. Marching Song of the Covert Battalions [DVD][Live][*]
  65. Lover Sings [DVD][Live][*]
  66. Warmest Room [DVD][Live][*]
  67. Debris [DVD][Live][*]
  68. All You Facists [DVD][Live][*]

North Sea Bubble