
The mask of humanity slips
Man's cruelty is limitless
Hatred flowers like a putrid rose
Watch the body count grow
Ethnic cleansing and divide and rule
It's every tyrant's tool
Religious differences exploitable
Bloodshed unavoidable
Kids orphaned, innocence lost
No-one bothers to count the cost
Mutilated and brutalised
A generation desensitised
Mass rapes and open graves
'Civilisation' so easily debased
Weapons supplied by the arms industry
Profiting from misery
Living in a world of anxiety
A society of insecurities
Past certainties all long gone
God is dead, now miraculously reborn
The world is a media stage
The new world order, post-communist age
The banner of capitalism proudly unfurled
Plastic people in a plastic world
Busy dancing on the spot
Never quite happy with what you've got
There's always something new to buy
But you can't buy happiness how ever hard you try
It's fashionable, so brand yourself
Sweatshop goods fill the shelves
Walking commercials for the corporate cause
Where profit's involved, there's no sanity clause
Identity commodified and put on sale
Buy your way into the fairy tale
Happiness bought but at what cost?
A dying planet, a paradise lost
Needs identified, insecurities tapped
Adverts re-enforce a sense of lack
It's a market of supply and demand
New markets are carefully planned
Choose between what's offered to you
The illusion of freedom sticks like glue
Dazzled by neon flashing lights
The future almost looks quite bright...
Another day, another compromise
Another part of you dies inside
Another thing you swore would never change
Another dream you held starts to fade
Another cut that you never felt
And now you're just like everybody else
Another line in the sand against the sea
Washed away with your individuality
Another part of you that you denied
So you didn't get left outside
I don't know you now but I knew you then
Before the things you said we're forgotten
'You can't change the world', so you change yourself
Until in your heart there's nothing left
Factories spew out toxic waste
Tax is paid so that's ok
Poisoned rivers and polluted seas
A future consumed pawned for luxury
Habitats razed, vital secrets lost
Species wiped out, what'll be the cost?
Melting icecaps and ozone holes
Do you ever wonder what the future holds?
Governments corporate owned
A society of consumer clones
Shops full of useless crap
Manifestations of an inner lack
The wheels of industry are grinding on
Natural resources could soon be gone
Eco-conferences come and go
But nothing changes it's all for show
Reaching the point of no return
Will humanity ever learn?
No mitigating circumstance
No fence to sit on, no second chance
We are the problem, we are the solution
Our lifestyle is the cause of the pollution
Too little is done much too late
Is that going to be our fate?
CH.
V2
CH.
Human scum your time will come
The legacy you leave is diseased
Human scum your time will come
You'll be dying on your knees
The obscenity of reality
The insanity of normality
Human scum you're time will come
The legacy you leave is diseased
Human scum your time will come
In all your decadence you will die
a future without any oil,
a future of constant war,
it's time for you to face the truth,
but you don't want to
a global funeral pyre,
millions gonna die
what about my right to fly? It's gone
tough shit fuck you
Ch:
no oil, no oil left.
No forests, no forests left
no coal, no coal left.
nothing, there'll be nothing left
No land, no food, no people,
Nothing left.
No land, no food, no people,
Nothing left.
No land, no food, no people,
Nothing left.
No land, no food, no people,
Nothing left at all.
You'll burn it til there's nothing left at all
You'll burn it til there's nothing left at all
a world that's getting hotter
a world that's under water
don't like it, but you got to act,
it's down to you
What don't you understand?
This life can't be sustained
Things have got to change right now
Or else we're through
Ch:
So you're so free from all their laws
Yet still play at small-scale wars
Collateral damage is what you cause
Friendly fire without pause
Targets outside yourself so easy to fight
Distractions from everyday life
But until you're honest with yourself
Face your demons and start with yourself
Bang on about the way things should be
Don't see how you're oppressing me
Spouting the politics of freedom
While building a wall of divisions
Ch
You have no right to preach to me about how to be free
You have no right to preach to me about liberty
You have no right to preach to me about anarchy
Ch
Your black and white reality
Easy targets and enemies
You're blinded by your cause
Critical faculties are out sourced
Scientists playing God
Genetic diversity being lost
Profits are maximised
Seeds owned by a franchise
Ethics easily ignored
Business's rotten core
Life forms corporation owned
Exploitation being cloned
GMO, just say no, where it'll lead no-one knows
Genetic diversity being lost, what'll be the long term cost
Crops cross-pollinated, the food chain contaminated
Lip service to the benefits
The real story edited
'Starvation could be history'
Just buy it and believe
Terminator seeds and so much more
You lose too, not just the poor
Business interests being served
No safety checks to be observed
Crops patented and controlled
Business dictates just what can be grown
Expensive fertilizers and herbicides
Freedom of choice being denied
Farmers forced into dependency
The companies profits guaranteed
Grains of hope or seeds of destruction?
The repercussions are unknown
There’s a shadow cast across,
All of our lives, all of our hopes
.
And it hides what lies beyond:
The few in the sun, the few in the sun.
Politics is the shadow cast
Politics is the shadow cast
Politics is the shadow cast
Across us all by big business
It seems so few of us know
We built it all, just not as we chose
And whatever we make can be unmade
It's never too late, it's never too late
Politics is the shadow cast
Politics is the shadow cast
Politics is the shadow cast
Across us all by big business