Troubles At The BBC

[Verse 1]
Pay your licence fee every single year,
Funding quality programmes, that's what we hear,
But behind the scenes there's a different show,
Secrets covered up that we should know.

[Verse 2]
Savile had a key to every BBC door,
Hundreds came forward, couldn't ignore,
Management knew but turned their eyes away,
Decades of abuse while victims had to pay.

[Chorus]
That's the price for the BBC,
Funding cover-ups and corporate greed,
Paying executives their massive pay,
While the truth gets swept away,
Every year we pay the fee,
For scandals they don't want us to see.

[Verse 3]
Bashir and Diana, forged the bank statements,
Got that interview through false arrangements,
Report said he lied to get the scoop,
But management gave him another group.

[Verse 4]
Edwards on the payroll, highest paid of all,
Six figures while facing charges from the law,
Suspended with pay for the longest time,
Taxpayers funding while he answered for his crime.

[Chorus]
That's the price for the BBC,
Funding cover-ups and corporate greed,
Paying executives their massive pay,
While the truth gets swept away,
Every year we pay the fee,
For scandals they don't want us to see.

[Verse 5]
Director-General gets half a million quid,
Golden handshakes for whatever they did,
Hundreds on six-figure salaries paid,
While threatening grannies who haven't paid.

[Verse 6]
Strictly Come Dancing, misconduct backstage,
Bullying complaints on every page,
Culture of fear from the training floor,
But the show goes on like nothing happened before.

[Bridge]
They say it's for quality and culture too,
Educational content just for you,
But the scandals keep on piling high,
While they cash our cheques and multiply.

[Final Chorus]
That's the price for the BBC,
Institutional failures guaranteed,
Paying for scandals swept away,
While victims never get their say,
Every year we pay the fee,
Wonder what they'll hide from you and me,
The BBC, what a deal,
For an institution that won't heal.

[Outro]
So pay up or they'll take you to court,
For funding scandals of every sort,
The BBC with its secrets deep,
Your licence fee helps them sleep.

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