Kids are spittin' on the Town Hall steps and frightenin' old ladies   I dreamt that I was livin' back in the mid 1980s   People marchin', people shoutin', people wearin' pastel leather   The future's ours for the takin' now, if we just stick together      And I said   "Hey, lay your burden down   Seems the last day of the miners' strike   Was the Magna Carta in this part of town"      Well, my body sank below the ground, it became as black as night   Overhead the sound of horses' hooves, people fightin' for their lives   Some joker in a headband was still gettin' chicks for free   And Big Brother was still watching you, back in the days of '83      And I said   "Hey, lay your burden down   Seems the last day of the miners' strike   Was the Magna Carta in this part of town"      Well by 1985, I was as cold as cold could be   But no one's underground to dig me out and set me free   '87 socialism gave way to socialisin'   So put your hands up in the air once more, the north is risin'      And I said   "Hey, lay your burden down   Seems the last day of the miners' strike   Was the Magna Carta in this part of town"      Ah, sing Hallelujah   Ah, sing Hallelujah   Don't let them fool you again   Ah, sing Hallelujah, ahh      By now I'm sick and tired   Of just living in this hole   So I took the ancient tablets, blew off the dust   Swallowed them whole      Oh, come on, let's get together   Oh, come on, the past is gone   Well, the very first commandment   Come on, come on      Let's get it on   Come on, let's get it on   Get it on   Ah, get it on      Hey, lay your burden down   Seems the last day of the miners' strike   Was the Magna Carta in this part of town