Old Regime lyrics

Privilege from birth, abhorrence of work

Obsessed with sovereignty

Aristocrats claim an exemption

from the standards of democracy

A secret antipathy to justice and equality

And a tightly constrained definition of who is free

Old regime, smoke of history

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

The new aristocracy just smells like the old regime

They think that they can alter and sway

Which version of freedom reigns

If everything is subjective, then what good is truth anyway?

A plutocratic strategy or technocrat conspiracy?

Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?

Old regime, smoke of history

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

The new aristocracy just smells like the old regime

An unabated tendency to tyranny is still in place

And the ancient nobility's complexion differs just in name

Old regime, smoke of history

Liberty still wafting in the breeze

A new season dawns with ominous prophecy

Yeah the new aristocracy just smells like the old regime

• Artist:Bad Religion
• Album:Age Of Unreason