Billy Bragg - Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted Lyrics






Be nice if we could have our cake and eat it
Though that's impossible to do
But too many have invested in this outcome
They simply can't afford for it not to come true
We ceded too much power to the market
Let it decide what's right or wrong
Now everyone seems willing to lent credence
And truth is so devalued, it's going for a song

Not everything that counts can be counted
Holds the markets to account
Not everything that counts can be counted
Not everything that can be counted counts

People have had enough of experts
And their inconvenient facts
Here's what the media really won't tell ya
Exactly who it is that's taking control back
All opinions are equal
In the free market of ideas
And truth is nothing more than an opinion
That's the garnered the most likes, provoked the loudest cheers

Not everything that counts can be counted
Holds the market to account
Not everything that counts can be counted
Not everything that can be counted counts

There isn't really any room for dreamers
If you have principles that's nice
The market isn't interested in values
Except for those it can define as price
All bow to the power of the market
Till it throws up a different face
If you're not white or male or compliant
The system is designed to keep you in your place

Not everything that counts can be counted
Holds the market to account
Not everything that counts can be counted
Not everything that can be counted counts





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  1. O.... O....

    What......Like your mansion in Dorset!!!!!!

    O.... O....

    Precisely what does that have to do with the overbearing power of the markets?

    O.... O....

    Do you always discount the words of a person depending on the specifics of the person rather than the words themselves? I hope not.

  2. A.... B....

    "Muh Markets"- some cappie wank

  3. A.... B....

    Capitalism was always built on exploitation. It's simply an evolution away from Slavery and Serfdom. We need a new system. This current Capitalism is a broken system.

  4. w.... ....

    Id call him a "Prize Dick" if I diddnt like cock so much.

  5. S.... S....

    One of these views must've been Anthony Albanese

  6. m.... ....

    Anthony Albanese, Australia's brand new Labor leader (after losing the election), quoted this song in his first speech as leader

  7. D.... S....

    They have the prices
    We have the values

  8. N.... W....

    This man knows... his shit

  9. G.... O....

    I'm sorry but this is fucking legendary

  10. b.... i....

    Billy is the best

  11. M.... ....

    Always love Billy Bragg! Always...

    M.... ....

    that is almost the only thing I can say always about... I will always love Billy also

  12. M.... A....

    why are there dollar bills raining down and not any GBP notes? Billy Bragg has always written about Britain.

    M.... A....

    GBP notes would rise perchance!

  13. B.... S....

    Fuck this piece of shit🖕

    Build the fucking wall already🇺🇸

  14. B.... I....

    Cheers Billy I'm sure this is an easy view to take from your fuck off mansion in Dorset mate yeah cheers.

  15. G.... M....

    You really get the side of the victor on the right side of history

  16. I.... ....

    Another great song from, Billy

  17. C.... B....

    would not agree with the male - white comment.. personally on two occassions have lost work roles because i did not tick a box on ethnicity ! True

    C.... B....

    While it is true that individual white males might get the short end of the stick here and there, the tendencies are that white males get ahead with less effort than most other groups of people. That isn't to say that white males don't suffer too from the problems in our system, we do. We just suffer a bit less than others.

    C.... B....

    @N T IKR we just wave our white privilege cards and do as we please.
    I can't understand how there is any poor white people.
    Their cards must have been lost in the post.

    C.... B....

    @NPC 00000001 were all getting dicked just that if you're not white or male you get double dickeining

    C.... B....

    @Quasar BS

  18. p.... ....

    Sounds like Billy needs to read my recent research on quantifying social value:

    Hill. P. (2017). The importance of conventions: A Critical Evaluation of Current Practice in Social Cost Benefit Analysis. APM Research Fund Series. Princes Risborough: Association for Project Management. URL = https://www.apm.org.uk/news/apm-has-launched-its-latest-research-fund-report-the-importance-of-conventions/

    p.... ....

    Everything can be quantified and priced, but whose social conventions are you going to follow?!

    p.... ....

    Where's the point in trying quantify happiness? We think of it as a qualitative thing, so where is the utility or fun in trying to force capitalist logic into it?

  19. N.... B....

    Beautiful and True and Good. Platonic perfection.

    N.... B....

    A worthy meditation on the Market as God in postmodern society. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/306397/

  20. S.... S....

    Brilliant!!!

  21. A.... D....

    They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  22. T.... G....

    "If youre not white, male, or compliant, the system is designed to keep you in your place" Godamn Billy Bragg is so concise

    T.... G....

    Concisely wrong! Yes. Not every White Male is an ANARCHIST off the leash! Most of them live decent desperate lives of hard work and responsibility; love their families, their country and pay their taxes. Which in turn pays for the whole shebang we call modern civilisation. Only recently have white women joined them at the treadmill, thankfully sharing some of the load. God Bless them.

    T.... G....

    @Trevor Gomez says the white priveliged mockney singer who lives in a mansion in Dorset. NEVER liked him, but his attack on decent working class people and their decision to leave the grips of an exploitative and failing regime, calling them racist is simply unforgiveable. Cant wait for the truly honest and passionate commentator George Galloway to rip his intellect to shreds. Also he deserves the title, Billy Blagger after the time he tried blagging a free t shirt from our bands merch stall in Hamburg. Mansion owning champagne socialist cant afford 4 euros to contribute to starving musicians on the road. What a jerk, full of his own self importance when hes actually a nobody.

  23. J.... B....

    What I've heard of this album is amazing. I was at a gig a few years ago at the UEA, and Billy said something to the effect of music alone doesn't change the world, so I won't claim "this is what the world needs right now", but it's what I needed. So thanks to the man himself, if he ever reads these comments.

  24. M.... C....

    How does this only have 2,744 views!!! The world needs Billy Bragg right now.

    M.... C....

    like a bullet in the head...he can take his mockney whine and his bang out of order views about working class/Lexit voters back to his mansion in Dorset. Never liked him , always considered him a fauxcialist, along with his cult heroes, The Clash. One of the people responsible for the term "champagne socialist", not only that a very poorly endowed artist with zero genius. He never stood up and was counted, he just rode on the shoulders of giants. Cant wait for George Galloway to intellectually destroy this pathetic excuse for a human .

    M.... C....

    exactly

    M.... C....

    @wordscontrolminds George Galloway is a giant pussy.

    M.... C....

    Billy who? https://youtu.be/0_zUVgy3d4s

  25. L.... T....

    love it billy

  26. A.... W....

    I love this

  27. C.... M....

    Thank you.

  28. P.... L....

    I am a simple Bragg`s hater . I don`t exist .

    P.... L....

    Billy Blagger! Had the cheek to try and blag a free t.shirt from our bands merchandise stall in hamburg.This while we were on the road and starving and he had bought a mansion in Dorset!

  29. P.... C....

    So true Billy - Thank you for stepping out into the light to educate the masses - Love this album and you have worked tirelessly for a fairer world since I first saw you way back when. Enjoy your kippers for tea !!

  30. t.... ....

    Bill is a legend. 👍

    t.... ....

    Legendary prick! Calling some of my relatives racist in his heavily nuanced Full Brexit...its actually HIM who is an ignorant POS. Hated The Clash too, more middle class fauxcialists. Fortunately John Luydon saw through them and their same game early on....besides, AITUK is far superior to the proto ID politics of "white fuckin Riiot". Like the clash, over rated and embarrassing to true socuialists everywhere. Cant wait for the only honest and passionate political commenter George Galloway to rip him intellevtually to shreds!