Jarvis Cocker Superstar

Don't know if any of you guys watch it, but I quite enjoy watching The South Bank Show, especially when there's someone featured on it, who I'm a fan of, or indeed, have an affinity to their music, life, thoughts etc.
Last night's show featured the wonderful Jarvis Cocker. He's such an inspiration in many ways - to say that Pulp went on for years as a band, without being famous and still believed in their music and what they were about, is brill. I love the fact that he's also, so very grounded in his birth roots of Sheffield but also that fame hasn't changed who he is, what he's about and his values about life politically and musically.
He struck a chord too when he talked about getting married, having a child and thinking that he'd somehow become a 'responsible person'..As he puts it, 'like a magical wand would change him somehow' - well the good news is, it didn't and he doesn't believe that it'll ever happen - we all have our dysfunctions, quirks, etc etc. What an ace guy!
I think that maybe his life as a child, with an absent father, shaped a lot of who he is and what he's about today and as he remarkably and gorgeously mentioned, he speaks out to women in his music without meaning to, but just tends to. Maybe he saw his mother suffer some hardships as a child.

So, I'm enjoying his new solo sounds and his whole 'being' as a musician and genuine person, who still has both feet firmly planted! Sock it to em Jarvis!

Still Running the World Lyrics

Well did you hear, there's a natural order?
Those most deserving will end up with the most?
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top,

Well I say,... “Shit floats”.

If you thought things had changed,
Friend, you'd better think again,
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words:

Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.

Now the Working classes are obsolete,
They are surplus to society's needs,
So let 'em all kill each other,
And get it maid overseas.
That's the word don't you know,
From the guys that's running the show,
Lets be perfectly clear boys and girls,

Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.

Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails,
Find a school near the top of the league,
In theory I respect your right to exist,
I will kill you if you move in next to me,

Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust,
Oh but the takings are up by a third,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world.
(Cunts are still running the world)
(Cunts are still running the world)
The free market is perfectly natural,
Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?
It's the ideal way to order the world;
“Fuck the morals, does it make any money?”

And if you don't like it? Then leave.
Or use your right to protest on the street,
Yeah, use your right but don't imagine that it's heard,


Not whilst cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world,
Cunts are still running the world,

Cunts are still running... the world.