You Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express

You Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express

I’ve seen letters that lust after immigrants’ bloodFrom people in Surrey meaning nothing but good
I’ve seen fairytales disguised as facts
Concerning strikers’ treacherous acts
I’ve seen how democracy is under duress
But I never get a nipple in the Daily Express 

I’ve seen the suede jack boot the cultural cosh White House, Whitehall, whitewash Blood uptown where the vandals rule
Classroom clapping scandal school
They accuse - I confess
I’ve never seen a nipple in the Daily Express 

I’ve seen the red disease that eats awayAll our fortunes, day by day
The Duke of Edinburgh’s threadbare jacket
Can’t afford polo, what, not a packet?
Margaret Thatcher looks stunning, yes
But why no nipples in the Daily Express?

This paper’s boring, mindless and meanFull of pornography, the kind that’s clean
Where William Hickey meets Michael Caine
Again and again and again and again
I’ve seen all kinds of ugliness in hideous excess
But you don’t see nipples in the Daily Express

- John Cooper Clarke