FAWM: "Jabbing The Jobless"

Jabbing The Jobless

2025 by @andybalham

Liner Notes

Where I take the idea of using weight loss jabs for the unemployed to its logical conclusion. Sadly, this is not a dystopian idea I made up. It's a real thing that's been proposed by a UK MP: BBC - Weight loss jabs for jobless not dystopian - Streeting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7l30egjeo)

#political #dystopian #indiepop

Lyrics

It looks we’ve got a problem And something has got to give It seems that we have too many folk Economically inactive

We need to think different The answers are in the lab Can we cure these workshy fops With just a single jab

[Chorus] Yes, let’s jab the jobless A needle and the job is done One sharp prick is all it takes For the perfect automaton Let’s jab the jobless Inject all those mugs Get this country working again Even if it is on drugs

We’ll start with just weight loss But maybe there’s a greater need GDP would be through the roof If all workers were high on speed

Production both night and day Recession but a memory Profits stratospheric When there’s no need to sleep

[Chorus]

Is this chemical solution Treating the symptom, not the cause Maybe the jobs on offer Aren’t worth applying for?

Comments

@johnnyjustice 2025

I love how jaunty this feels. Also sick solo!

@moonraccoon 2025

That's a tricky line to tread, sarcasm sung to a catchy melody, but without a voice broadcasting the wink that the narrator's "in on the joke". Great melody it is, though. Love the filtered guitars!