Billy Bragg = amazing

I've had his Reaching the Converted for years, as well as the Mermaid Avenue albums and some odds and ends, but I recently downloaded Must I Paint You A Picture: The Essential Billy Bragg (which cost me under $10.00 on emusic.com--omitting things I already had--instead of over $30 on iTunes...).

So I've had a few of his songs stuck in my head, one being New England. All the lyrics are amazing as is the earnest minimalist delivery with just moderately distorted electric guitar backing him up, but this verse has stuck with me the most:

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care