Tonalité : G minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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By this we are all
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sustained: a belief in human nature
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And in justice and parity...all we have
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is the faith to carry on.
Imperceptible the change as our votes
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become mere gestures
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And our lords and masters
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determine to cast us
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In the roles of serfs and slaves
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in the new empire's name.
Verse 2
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Yes and every bloody emperor
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claims that freedom is his cause
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As he buffs up on his common
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touuch as a get- out clause.
Verse 3
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Unto nations nations speak
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in the language of the gutter;
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Trading primetime insults
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the imperial impulse
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Extends across the screen.
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Truth's been beaten to its
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knees; the lies embed ad infinitum
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Till their repetition becomes a dictum
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We're traittors to disbelieve.
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With what impotence we grieve
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for the democratic process
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As our glorious leaders con
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spire to feed us
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The last dregs of imperious disdain
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In the new empire's name.
Verse 4
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Yes and every bloody emperor's
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got his hands up history's skirt
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As he poses for posterity
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over the fresh dug dirt.
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Yes and every bloody emperor
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with his sickly rictus grin
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Talks his way out of nearly
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everything but the lie within
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Be cause every bloody emperor
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thinks his right to rule divine
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So he'll go spinning and spinning and spinning into his own decline.
Interlude 1
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Imperceptible the change
Verse 5
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as
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one by one our voices falter
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And the double standards of propaganda
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Still all our righteous rage.
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Verse 6
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By this we are all sustained: our belief
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in human nature.
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But our faith diminishes
- close to the finish,
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We're only serfs and slaves
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As the empire decays.
Outro 1
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