The Students' Views

I met a hack whose archives said there was once
a rep who asked for students' views...

Is it true what you hear, did they do it out of fear?
Was the day drawing near when defeat would start to show?
Was it rage or shame or the damage to their names?
Was it something worse - will we ever know?

Did we pay the price, for seeking their advice?
A hope to get it right in this dull embittered land.
They just passed us by, do they dare to meet our eye?
They ignored us all and thought we'd understand.

A failure in the system? -- should we really need them?
Their influence too great -- too many believed them.
Thought they were our betters -- no better than they should be.
A thorn in our side -- we always knew they would be.

We said: We never had a chance to prove them wrong.
Our time was short, the issues long.
No we never had a chance to prove them wrong.
A few bad reps were far too strong.

I met a hack whose archives said there was once a rep who asked
for students' views...

They went to ground, were the minutes ever found?
The press came swarming round on a story going cold.
But they just led them a dance, or put them in a trance.
Covered it up before the day was old.

Were we bound to lose, when we claimed the right to choose?
They never could excuse us for stirring up their fears.
The issues were too long, and still they called us wrong.
You can see those silenced hopes all down the years.

We said: We never had a chance to prove them wrong.
Our time was short, the issues long.
No we never had a chance to prove them wrong.
A few bad reps were far too strong.

I met a hack whose archives said there was once a rep who asked
for students' views...

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