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Inside, out of danger They've spared no expense No threat gets through the security fence Outside - insurrection No-one here really cares Great yawns of apathy everywhere On their ark of suburbia Raise the barricade high It won't stop the propaganda t...

Far beneath those sunken ships We've got muscle-bound workers and scientists And some of them are working twenty-four hour shifts Because the whole world's waiting for this Atlantic tunnel Coming straight to you Smashing through the bedrock And the cult...

Backstage Bob! Some of them want the front page Some of them want centre stage Some of them just want to get their own names known Some of them want the accolades And even expect to get paid Others know when you’re better off left alone Backsta...

Things bad and getting worse All stations on red alert That black hole could swallow you It's not just you, sometimes I feel it too On the borderline Why don't you get on my side On the borderline We could save each-others lives On the borderline On...

They bought a rocket They bought a nuclear submarine They're playing war games in the snow and mud With a white flag flying They put a blood-red bill in my hands It's nothing to do me I rip it up because I can't pay, I won't pay I can't pay, and I won'...

It’s a chain store massacre Bodies lying everywhere Those with the biggest clout Punch the independents out We’re spied on, herded round Stranded in the underground Abandoned with our happy meal Inside a ring of steel It’s disturbing But it’...

Your average man Looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth Your average man Talks politics, goes on drinking bouts Keeps his family fed, pats children on the head But that man think's he's a dominator That man think's he's a master A dominator, a do...

If I was a writer And I wrote a book That had everything in it Would you look? Driver or passenger Which one is you? Are you just here for the ride? I think you should decide If your life just happens Like a movie script Would you rather play a bit...

It's a genuine plastic land Where the plastic people go To learn everything about nothing That's all they need to know And as they race for the high ground You could be carried along in the crush They tell you that there's no alternative They don't know...

At midnight she's still a princess Still giving off the sweet smell of success Glued to the screen in a bedsit Cinderella drinks it in Sighs and says, That's it - If I knew her secret I'd use it Show me what it's like I set my heart on it But can I b...

This must be the Garden of Eden Just look at the bulging shelves! You could spend a day in Safeway Counting the vegetables Don't count the cost Add it up and you've lost It's not a free world You have to pay It's not a free world You can force it, dru...

Between the war and apocalypse a crowd of us doesn't fit standing here with hands on hips in a ditch by the super-highway Terrorists on a tourist trip the pacifist bomb squad blown to bits i'm wondering what makes me tick and I feel foolish singing My...

It’s going to be a huge production You won’t see the like again The ultimate thrill In a world where everything looks the same Going grey, it’s all going grey It’s all going grey, shouldn’t be that way Go! Get it now before it’s gone Get it now...

I was trying to remember the good time I've had Terminaly hampered by my short attention span Were we really so happy? Were the summers so hot? Were we so young and beautiful? Well, in the end - so what? Perhaps the good times are back. I was thinking...

These delicious days Leave a nasty taste We’re carving out our space But are we really? I wish I could see clearly We’re marching on To a stirring song With the bold and brave and strong But are we really? I wish I could see clearly Our e...

I ate a suicide breakfast and I still feel sick I've got a half life here and I'm stuck with it But I count my blessings and say my prayers Because half the world's hungry and most of it's scared And it's a cruel law, but the cat gets the cream Cash buys...

I’m free to go where I want But I walk on razor blades I’m free to work till I drop But just for the minimum wage I watch all the channels Trying to find my place Taking every precaution Still I don’t feel safe Here in the arms of my enemy I...

Finally the truth! There is no proof You might as well take those solar panels Down off the roof And drive what you like We’ll never run dry You can kiss those environmentalists bye bye It’s warming up Ya-da-ya, ya-da-ya-da It’s warming up...

I see you sparkle in the mud Like a little diamond in the rough Ready for the cut, ready for the cut And you could either way Potentially two faces Both sides battling for a place Stand and say I am the lion and the lamb I am part of the plan I am th...

There's no saviour out there To interfere in your affairs There ain't no one else who cares All your good deeds - lead nowhere Life's the crime of passion Designed for intolerant action This is war - so all's fair This is the Lord's Prayer This is the...

You rise up over the skyline Pushing everything out of your way All around the dogs start howling And the ground starts to sway My house is made out of matchsticks Your map has got a big 'X' on You're so busy hiking your empire up You'd let a baby drop...

No one lays the red carpet down For the spread of ideas There are too many thieves around But somehow word reaches us We hear the call Across the border And wait for nightfall In my Trojan horse Wheels are turning now Across the border I’...

Why should I have to show my I.D. There's no consensus and I don't agree With what they're undertaking in my name I'm appalled and I'm ashamed Why should I have to show my I.D. To be enrolled in this community Where all my role models are on the take A...

Which way is the right way now? Compass shows no North, no South Compass shows no East, no West One way guides you best Open up, open up, open up your heart If you're restless, if you're bored Give yourself up and get the reward Catch the crimin...

How come everything I say is on replay? How come? You spend so much time, trying to find something new But even though the line looks straigth it is up in a loop How come everything I say is on replay? How come everything I do is on replay too? How com...

Rattling down the track on iron wheels This is not an exercise, it's for real I'm up here in the rushing wind, way down there London is just a traffic jam You can't walk the streets Or breathe the air I'm a runaway train driver x3 Heading off the rails...

What are they offering For your heart of gold Dredged from a dirty river bed Polished up and sold Why should you take Their shabby throne In some corrupted kingdom Where you will rule alone And trade your heritage for something counterfeit Yo...

I've grown a garden full of poisonous plants Other people make friends, I can't Faced with the housework, I go weak I'm like a scarecrow in a field of dust I sit around and watch the washing machine rust Light as paper, I blow around in the breeze Sailin...

They called me `Skipper' And I sailed on the sea Home was the rolling waves And the beer and the company And we pulled the nets together And we worked as a team Until the day we caught the big fish And were never seen again And the clock kept ticking...

You try to walk straight There are walls in your way Life feels like a war It’s a dangerous place You need to escape But one thing is sure All roads lead to the brink And there’s nothing to do there But jump right in Jump right in And sink, sink, si...

We're faced with mile-high piles of money Sitting in banks Gold bars, credit cards Aeroplanes and tanks Buy, buy, satisfy Call me when you're rich Cheap food, cows dying in a ditch We're having a hard time Holding the thin green line We're faced wit...

We love life and we love our leaders The sound bites from the bottom feeders We love the things that have no value We join in because they say we have to It’s a con All we want is To be together alone In gangs and groups and troops and posses...

Out of town where there’s nothing around Except white puffy clouds We live on farms, no burglar alarms Just the sheep, pigs and cows Forget the losers, we’re the producers And God speeds the plough Unlike the rest we know we know best And you’ll...

You jumped, you dropped Your problems got Difficult to solve The conservative view Is that good work shines through Still the businesses fold In the money comes Out the money goes Charging out of control It makes you feel so useless Run rabbit run...

This trail of blame It’s hard to follow We clench our teeth And swallow When the levee breaks The dregs of this human race Float to the surface No help comes through Held together with weak glue You’re scared? Me too Held together with we...

Shattered streets, shattered town Boarded up, shuttered down Bad loans, broken homes Then a phoenix arises Pouring scorn on the crisis There’s credit We’re ready, let’s jump But the things you rely on Aren’t like clothes you just try on Then...