I approach this post with a little more trepidation than most and this is because of my long standing affiliation. It’s easy to get other forms of rock wrong and pass it off as a relative unfamiliarity, I can’t do that with punk.

Long-standing hatred

I was only going to get one chance 
to make my move the circumstance
the lure of a liar in lycra 
fell for lucre full of liquor
a long standing hatred

What’s wrong with this? Well it’s a bit like the reunion gig of Reagan Youth. Perhaps you could still be rude to Governor Jerry Brown in song but the continued relevancy of name checking is never certain. A story about some rough nut butting the former prime minister and barely leaving a mark doesn’t warrant a song; not even for demonstration purposes.

Punk rock in 1976 is as much the province of nihilists as it is anarcho-syndicalists. I always saw it as defiance against authority and against social norms. It’s been absorbed since as the decades roll out more extremes and we become desensitised.

Downward Trajectory

The emperor of the court the truth itself distorts 
at this ad mission abort
The news and views whose choose who skews
We must be cursed to thrust the worst
forward 

The mindlessness is more pronounced
than what we had before announced

This is more like it because, even though Downward Trajectory uses big words and is enigmatic, it does have that negative view of state affairs.

With punk rock there’s every disaffection rolled into a bit of noise so this could be some personal story about this girl you know, it could be owning up to being not all there, or it could be talking about the country at large or the system; all on the one album.