Constantly obsessed with your own past
Thinking on things that just might have been
If only you'd had the guts
Take the chances you'd been given
Keep on keeping on
Keep on trucking
Nothing is ever set in stone
No convolution that you can't escape
No star will guide the way
Don't believe anything is fate
Conservative critics underrate
Stuck in the past, their secret entropy
Jail's made out of guilt
Only you can get away
Society's collapsing and we're going mad
Geriatrics dragging us into the past
The asylum's closed so they're giving out drugs
Addiction's gonna leave your feelings unplugged
Zombie echoes from the past again (3x)
Old Etonian clowns ruling the roost
With conmen fascists grabbing the loot
Stashing it all in their offshore accounts
While starving kids are going without
Don't wanna die for the British Empire, roasted in a nuclear war (4x)
Red faced sweater shrieks on Question Time
Demanding first use of a nuclear strike
Imagining fake glory wrought by genocide
Will somehow reverse imperial decline
Society's collapsing and we're going mad
Geriatrics dragging us into the past
The asylum's closed so they're giving out drugs
Addiction's gonna leave your feelings unplugged
Zombie echoes from the past again (3x)
Old Etonian clowns ruling the roost
With conmen fascists grabbing the loot
Stashing it all in their offshore accounts
While starving kids are going without
Don't wanna die for the British Empire, roasted in a nuclear war (4x)
Red faced sweater shrieks on Question Time
Demanding first use of a nuclear strike
Imagining fake glory wrought by genocide
Will somehow reverse imperial decline
Can't sleep, my brainchild's awakening
Dig deep through the scattered remnants of my dreams
The world's my oyster with a rough-cut pearl
Mere survival won't cut it any more
World citizen moving coast to coast
Forget about insecurity and plunge into ambiguity
Say goodbye to Kansas, Dorothy
Living after sunshine
Found a treasure map of the seven seas
Islands shrouded in mists and mysteries
Ancient legends, here be dragons
Pleasure haunts of darkest infamy
Broken hearts, battlefield casualties
Wrong turnings on the road to happiness
Bloodline irrelevant, just a white elephant
Pretend to live the rock & roll lifestyle
Enticed away from the greenery
To a brutalist concrete slum
Cold and dark, glances hostile
Maladjusted, just one last chance
Don't have to stay under control
A victim all your life
Outside world will let you down
You gotta open your eyes
Don't have to lead a dull austerity
Your karma's not in the stars
Time to get back to your future
Reclaim your savage heart
Silent tears of frustration
Never knowing how to get back home
Redscale hands, blistered frost pain
Streetwise sharpness, gotta hide your soul
Clear your mind of false rebellion
Just ignore them that don't talk straight
Look inside to find salvation
Conspiracist is full of hate
There ain't no gods
Liberate yourself
Sick to death of propaganda
Talking 'bout the good old days
Forgettin' disease and poverty
Looking through a rose-tinted haze
Ditch simple-minded bigotry
It fails to hide insecurity
Don't believe in get-rich schemes
Con-artist path to misery
Got nowhere I can call my home
No one gonna call me on the telephone
No one gonna ask me if I'm still alright
No one checking if I'm dead or alive
Leave me disillusioned - but I'm not in despair
It's all meaningless but I just don't care
I'm no alpha male - I was always set to fail
Mister Nobody - faceless, no identity
I don't fit in, not one of the crowd
Individual where it's not allowed
Authoritarian conformist chic
March in lockstep to a nationalist beat
I'm not important, I'm no VIP
I don't recognise your celebrities
Call it treason, my lack of blind faith
Scream at me til you're red in the face
