Under Heavy Manners Lyrics

They’re closing down the clubs, they’re closing down the city As they build another shopping mall They’ll keep us dumb with the muzak on As we buy stupid things we don’t need Reality show make us famous for a day Become a D-list celebrity The emptiness of our hopes and dreams Is this all we ever want to be? And we all sit at home and pray to the West To our false God, Democracy They pretend our opinions really count We pretend that we’re really free Now it’s time to turn the television on As darkness falls we won’t go out again There’s a media blackout on the voices of dissent As they lead us to another war There’s a bogey-man bearing arms from the West They deny that it’s all about oil There is a real war, but it’s not the one we think, It’s the one waged by the rich upon the poor With insatiable greed they’ve taken everything And now they’re coming back for more They’re wiring every town and they’re wiring every street So they can monitor us everywhere we go With CCTV and satellite spies We know we can never be alone MI5 are being tasked to listen in As they erode our civil liberties But what do we care if we’ve lost our rights As long as the television’s on… We’ll never take the streets again - Wake up look around we’re under heavy manner - There’s a water cannon waiting and it’s paid for by our taxes - Let’s tear it all down that’s the only solution - They call this freedom but it doesn’t apply to us!