Is This The Life We Really Want

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[Verse 1]
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The goose has gotten fat
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On caviar and fancy bars
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And subprime loans

And broken homes
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Is this the life, the holy grail?
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It's not enough that we succeed
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We still need others to fail

[Verse 2]
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Fear, fear drives the mills of modern man
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Fear keeps us all in line
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Fear of all those foreigners

Fear of all their crimes
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Is this the life we really want?
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It surely must be so
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For this is a democracy and what we all say goes

[Verse 3]
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And every time a student is run over by a tank
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And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank
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Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale
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And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail
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Every time a young girl's life is casually spent
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And every time a nincompoop becomes the president
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Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys
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And every time that Greenland falls in the fucking sea it's because

[Verse 4]
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All of us, the blacks and whites
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Chicanos, Asians - every type of ethnic group

Even folks from Guadaloupe, the old, the young
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Toothless hags, supermodels, actors, fags, bleeding hearts
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Football stars, men in bars, washer women, tailors, tarts
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Grannies, grandpas, uncles, aunts

Friends, relations, homeless tramps
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Clerics, truckers, cleaning ladies, ants
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Maybe not ants
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Why not ants?

Well, because it's true
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The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between
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The pain that other people feel
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And well, for instance, cutting leaves
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Or crawling across window sills

In search of open treacle tins
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So like the ants, are we just dumb?

Is that why we don't feel or see
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Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?
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So every time
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The curtain falls
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Every time the curtain falls on some forgotten life
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It is because we all stood by silent and indifferent
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It's normal!