SISters are doin’ it for themselves

Guest post
9 years ago
Categories: humour, music, Spying
Tags: Spying

r0b: Promoted (with one minor edit) from a comment. Got me smiling about no laughing matter!

SISters are doin’ it for themselves…

(With apologies to Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin)

Now there was a time when they used to say

That behind every great spy there had to be a valid warrant.

But in these times of change you know that it’s no longer true

So we’re comin’ out of the back room

‘Cause there’s something we forgot to say to you

We say:

SISters are doin’ it for themselves,

Goin’ on their own gut instincts an’ makin’ all their own calls.

SISters are doin’ it for themselves!

Now this is a song to celebrate

The invasive powers of the National State.

Citizens

Protesters and left wing bloggers

Too

SISter ops targets

We’re singing with you.

The invasive state has got new freedoms now.

We got minorities

Lawyers

Politicians too,

Tryin’ so hard to warn us –

Everybody

Take a look around

They can see,

Can you see,

Can you see that SIS bug hidden right next to you?

We say: SISters are doin’ it for themselves.

Now we ain’t makin’ stories and we ain’t layin’ plans

‘Cause 48 hours ain’t enough to do either of them.

Now they may say

This is just for a while

But a civil liberty trampled

Usually proves hard to revive.

And that means that –

SISters are doin’ it for themselves.

Now they don’t need nobody’s say so –

SISters are doin’ it for themselves!

– redblooded

-p.s. Checkout the original – it’s still glorious: