The beaten generation lyrics
The beaten generation lyrics
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this
once proud nation
can you sense the fear and the hatred
growing in the hearts of its population?
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
by the greedy hands of politics and half truths.
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation.
The beaten generation, the beaten generation.
Open your eyes, open your imagination
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
and hypnotised by the satellites
into believing what is good and what is right.
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
or lost in the prisons of religion
but can you still walk back to happiness
when you've nowhere left to run?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation.
The beaten generation, the beaten generation.
Open your eyes, open your imagination.
If they send in the special police
to deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace,
then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
when they tell us justice is being done,
that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation.
The beaten generation, the beaten generation.
Open your eyes, open your imagination.
- Artist:The The
- Album:Mind Bomb