All in Vain

Chumbawamba

Celebrity culture meets institutionalised racism. TV presenter Jill Dando's death in 1999 was fetishised; in comparison, Ricky Reel's racially-motivated murder two years earlier was ignored.
I wish, I wish, I wish -
But it's all in vain
Different colours, different faces
Different schools in different places
Scour the morning papers
All in vain
Evening after, who remembers?
Say your prayers for the great pretenders
I see nothing but flowers
All in vain
I wish, I wish, I wish -
But it's all in vain
All the gravestone elegies
I-never-met-you memories
And every tv picture
All in vain
All your questions, deep as skin
Seperate worlds to put them in
Another might-have-been
All in vain
Colour blind as tse tse flies
Sucking all our difference dry
And as we sleep they multiply