No Future - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

And the buildings stand empty, yet they still stand

Stand in the way of progress

And the bulldozers come to make their mark

And the riot police, they're all lurking in the dark

The last bastion of true freedom

The freeloaders and squatters on the land

The artists and students, the riff-raff and lowlife

These buildings have no future and they know it

And there is a plan, an incredible plan

To build up the city of the future

And all we must do is make these buildings disappear

And then their way, it is perfectly clear

We're all in the same project together

We speak the same language of economics

And it makes a lot of sense, and it makes a lot of dollars

And if it makes a lot of homeless with no future, so what?

That the towers will be built is not debated

We hear them babbling in the press

Words like urban planning and revitalization

They take away their homes and give them housing instead

Though they have the gift of tongues, they have no love

Only the clanging of the factory bell

Destroying the beauty, the chaos, the understanding

That is learned from that school called no future

And what doth it profit a man to leave another homeless?

We who dare question this vanity

Know that a prophet is not without honor

Except among family in its own country

Without the past there can be no future

The man ranting on the corner's been misunderstood

They have destroyed his past and given him no future

They look at their creation and they say it is good

No future