The blackened whisper of the rain Burns the memories black You don't see it now You don't realise But you're fading out It all comes back to you in the end But...

Measured words and a faithless kiss from men who rule with iron fists Compassion here is bought and sold but the publicity was sweet As the faithful gather roun...

Asylums for abandoned dreams And aborted revolutions The echoes of a dying mind It's only the faces that change And you walk again Along that thin white line A...

Behind these cardboard trenches where you buy your conscience clean From fugitives and thieves But what's the difference in the end? The guilt is all the same ...

Caught in the glow of a television The world is passing by But you flick it over to a chatshow Because the world is killing you We're trapped in terraced priso...

As you secretly plan your escape From you world without fences that you fought so hard to defend You watch the highway below The silent breadlines of civilised ...

You must be proud The headlines claim you won the war And you wear that flag on your lapel But across your street A teenage girl is leaving school To look after...

A million middle fingers Poison the veins of an empire So deep in denial So feeble on a leash And pint-sized philosophers Are debating the size of the tits on ...