[Intro: Sample]
“For many decades I was the king of this planet. Uh, people were happy and their lives were good. But also, alas, we were a planet of idiots.”
“So? They’re idiots! Who-who cares? They’re idiots too. Just ‘cause you’re stupid doesn’t mean you can’t rule a planet.”
[Verse 1]
Seems safety where I live is a powder the nappy rash
Babies can’t afford to forward think with a sore ass
This progressive land mass is all luxury coast
Introverted intellects, nevеr example set
Paint ‘еm a cot, play ‘em a chord, give ‘em a pat, send ‘em to sleep
Let the coal seam destabilise the ground beneath their feet
On a planet where there’s havoc in every cavern and bar none
Rhetoric here to lorikeet the boss towards an outcome
Every lawmaker in a 50k radius
Ear prick their constituent radio playlist
Outcry flies and the source of that problem
Seems par for the course of our national gospel
It’s awesome, the force that a law in the west
Can morse code all four modes of regret
Hospitalise cookie cutter homegrown threats
Like anger and a smashed pint caused all the mess?
And a jail full of quick wits, never given wish lists
Probably won’t aspire to anything but a bit of biff
Inner city binge complexity of Oedipus
Money out the wazoo, flushin’ down the mine pit
[Interlude: Sample]
“I’ve lost my way”
“I knew you’d lost something. Isn’t it a dreadful feeling? Tell me, what does your way look like?”
“It doesn’t look like anything, really. I just can’t find my home”
[Bridge]
You keep
Talkin’
Down to us
You
Keep talkin’
Down to us
Tell me how we’re livin’ in a land of fortune
But we never seem to have a hand in how it’s won
Tell me how we go about fightin’ that battle
People in my land aren’t cruel by nature
[Outro]
You’re talking
Down to us
You’re talking
Down to us
You’re talking
Down to us
You’re talking
Down to us