Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen (Official Video)

A dark, brooding and at times violent video to match the mood of the song from the 1991 album ‘Don’t Try This At Home’. `You're a dedicated swallower of fascism’ is a politicalisation of a classic Ray Davies song title.
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Lyrics:
I've always been impressed with a girl
Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well
That's the way I am, heaven help me
He said, "We don't like peace camapigners 'round here"
As he nailed another one to the wall
And that's what gets me in trouble, heaven help me
Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that you've spoken
Goodbye and good luck to all the promises you've broken
Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion
You're an accident waiting to happen
There you are standing at the bar
And you're giving me grief about the DDR
And that chip on your shoulder gets bigger as you get older
One of these night you're gonna get caught
It'll give you a pregnant pause for thought
You're a dedicated swallower of fascism
Time up and time out for all the liberties you've taken
Time up and time out for all the friends that you've foresaken
If you choose to waste away like death is back in fashion
You're an accident waiting to happen
And my sins are so unoriginal
I have all the self-loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing
In this carnival of carnivores, Heaven help me
Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that you've spoken
Goodbye and good luck to all the promises you've broken
Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion
You're an accident waiting to happen
You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a dedicated swallower of fascism
You're an accident waiting to happen

[@angiejukes7373]

One of the best lines in a song ever - dedicated swallower of fascism!

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

It's Dylan

[@gareththompson5653]

You gave an angry young man a social conscience, thirty years later I'm still angry. Thank you ❤

[@frangarcia7774]

Great song! Love this whole album so much. I wish Billy would work again with Johnny Maar

[@kurtwood7480]

I love the carnival of carnivores

[@chrisb6296]

Is it Johnny Marr playing on this?

[@frangarcia7774]

It is!

[@Fregward]

An ode to the Presidency since the end of Jimmy Carter's term! Poignant as ever in the modern day, Billy.

[@Apym289]

Loving the drip feed of classics for free.

[@ghostrider2664]

Billys best song. Hands down. I didnt know Johnny Marr had a hand in this. Makes sense. And, coincidentally enough, Andy Rourke brought me here. 😭 I wanted some comfort with old friends I hadnt seen in a while.....so i came here.....and now i learn Marr did this with Bragg....small world.....we are all tied together.....

[@amarcadiacastillo]

Thanks for uploading this great great song that I love the most. We must fight our internal fascism all the time 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. 🤗🤗🤗 Great video, funny and profound, I never watched it before 😃

[@UkAlien]

Dedicated swallower of fascism!! Brilliant!

[@jimmyzbike]

love this one! Business Bolke Billy is great hehe

[@clivesnowden4348]

Wow! Excellent. Have never seen this video before. Loved the Red Stars!

[@monkeezorg]

Thanks for the uploads - keep them coming.

[@garethjones6566]

This made my day, never seen the video till today. Cheers Bill.

[@jamiewatson9027]

Back then we were turning our back on Thatcherism with post-Cold War confidence for a more progressive Britain in the Nineties. I don't know where we went wrong in the past few years, but I hope we can get the country back again.

[@RALearmont]

Great tune! Love this song!

[@steveave5911]

Awesome Song and Video!

[@henrycastle1]

Dear Billy, Look within, This is a broadcast for Thame Oxfordshire I so love you Like Bob Dylan Carry On Gubbins 💯%

[@ba7926]

Good stuff always

[@LeviticusCorwall1899]

Classic

[@GoodHomeInspection]

Saw you solo in Poor David's Dallas. Great show, we had a good time.

[@timsmith3621]

This seems to be a different version from what's on the album. Great song in either case.

[@MsMiguel70]

Videos like this make me think - regardless of his notoriety, talent, etc - you'd just want to be his buddy. : )

[@andyhawkes3335]

Phil coming out of the box

[@carpog]

2023 update: Dedicated to Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson and all the other ringleaders of the apocalypse.

[@michaelkeegan8184]

Loving the literal imagery of these videos! Could you give a bit of a commentary, if it's not too much to ask. Thanks BB.

[@Fregward]

Give the big man a follow on Facebook, he does a lot of commentary on songs there. You won't regret it! :D

[@ferrandoandrea]

it's different from the album version, right?

[@playlistismo]

@ ▷ Billy Bragg 🎶▷ Accident Waiting To Happen 💿▷ Don't Try This At Home 📅▷ 1991 🎬︎▷ Peter Demetris

[@skyekerrigan4928]

Fab I thought sexuality was my favourite but I then I hear this one

[@karenlong625]

Why didn't anyone listen,

[@jsgrayesq]

Was the right now it's the left! God save us

[@RYx222]

braindead

[@LorenRyburn-hx8gi]

I'm not going to do IT. You can.

[@JeffreySmith84]

This version is so much better than the album version (which is great too!)

[@postintheocean]

Is that johnny maar ???

[@feinstein1]

Quite jarring to see a promo for Candace Owens interviewing Donald Trump ahead of this. Dedicated swallowers of fascism, indeed.

[@brianetoomeyjr635]

Marr and Bragg good combo when you are the other the

[@gj003f6898]

Way more E Street Band (never mind Springsteen) than anything that came out after Born To Run/Greetings From Astbury Park. And yet ...

[@ChrisTomlinson-ih9vx]

Thanks Billy and John Peel got me through so much! Goodbye Tories We will be singing this on election night 2024! It was worth the wait! FREEDOM!!!

[@swimmingchicken7254]

looks like tim robinson

[@swthirteen]

Too much sugar in this version. I think our BB wanted a single. Recorded or dubbed in Cambridge MA at Fort Apache during tour in 1991. The original version on the album is much better with Granto on the board.

[@kurtwood7480]

I totally disagree!

[@augenschlacht]

Love Billy Bragg - but man, he made some terrible videos! See also: Sexuality. Much better off just listening to the audio - or seeing him live. Which is clearly the way he'd prefer it.

[@nielsdaemen]

I don't like it

[@gj003f6898]

Way more E Street Band (never mind Springsteen) than anything that came out after Born To Run/Greetings From Astbury Park. And yet ...