https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/138552/
For the song name, there's two suggestions put forward. One was the name of a resistance army in Czechoslovakia. Another was that it referenced 7 graveyard encircling London. The former sounds like something Joe would be into. The latter fits the theme of the song more.
As for the lyrics, most of them are straight forward and about the drudgery of working under capitalism and being compensated for it again by capitalism/consumerism. Drinking, maybe buying some trinkets for your girl to keep her happy.
But the more interesting lines are as follows:
These are my favourite lines. I hope they're a tongue in cheek piss take that Engels was the son of a rich industrialist and that he supported Marx and his writings. But I'm not sure of the greater intention in the context of the song. Was Joe saying that even Marx was subject to this form of mundane existence? Is it just an extension of the overall pessimism? Like in a "don't look for answers there" kind of way?Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
Seems straight forward. The good guys lose. The bad guys win, big.Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win fifty-nil
What does 'through the kitchen' mean?You can be true, you can be false
You'll be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way through the kitchen
My interpretation: A dog was more famous than one of the most important and influential thinkers of all time.Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?