Politician! Pull your fingers out!
You've gotta stop all this messing about
Cos we need action, we need some results
You can keep your lies and save your insults!

Are you qualified to pull our strings?
Or are you too wrapped up in selfish things?
I sometimes wonder if your reasoning's sound
See what I mean if you just look around!

So many people have to scrape to survive
You give them just enough to keep them alive
They look to you, and you treat them like flies
They keep on shouting, but do you hear their cries!?

So many youngsters, they have nowhere to live
Accommodation full, there's no more to give
Politician! They're depending on you!
For all of these people now, what do you do!?

Own House in Order! We've got to get our
Own House in Order! We've got to get our
Own House in Order! We've got to get our
Own House in Order!

Modern technology is ruling our lives
This makes the unemployed flow over the sides
Increase in leisure, it's a good compromise
But they need money, a sensible rise!

The N.H.S. has nearly died of old age
The nurses struggle on a pitiful wage
This great ideal you just let run to decay
This does not seem to be the sensible way!

Complicate everything for us no escape
Slow strangulation in your piles of red tape
You've got us numbered from the day we arrive
Just little cogs in the machine that you drive!

Politician! You are playing the hand!
Well someone has to lead, we understand
But don't you hear when the people call?
Or is it that you couldn't really care at all!?

Chorus... Own House in Order! Etc.

Drug education is nowhere to be seen!
The kids know nothing when they get to their teens!
So many sucked in by the needle and spoon!
And tiny tots, sniffing glue!
Still put your finger on the peace pipe glow!
You make a criminal for want of a blow!
And it's about time that you realised!
This would be right to decriminalise!

Chorus... Own House in Order! Etc.

Politician! You tell so many lies!
You cause a riot, then you stand back surprised
The rich get richer and the poor are still poor
You must do something now to even the score!

Politician! You should study the facts!
And just be careful where your dropping your axe
Do the right things for the people that need
Do not be subject to the rich man's greed!

Politician! You seem way out of touch!
A little effort isn't asking too much
How long is it before you realise?
Why don't you wake up? Open your eyes!

Politician! You are running the show!
You tell us where to turn and which way to go!
You seem so good at petty arguing!
But we need action you must do the right thing!

Chorus... Own House in Order! Etc.