Age of Greed Lyrics by Killing Joke

Age of Greed Lyrics

    Ten percent of the land

    Is the hand that pulls the strings
    Be the privileged few (to have to own to hold)
    Power over the people yes yes
    Power over people
    Be the privileged few to have to own to hold

    Money property assets before lives
    Green gestures of a dying planet
    An endless debate only too late
    An appetite for glutony

    The only way is up the only way is up
    But when you are up you have to try and stay there
    So you stamp and cheat on people
    Champagne breakfats (rewards for the killing)
    And a fast waist bulging
    Indulging, in what you call good living

    But most of all there is too much fat on your heart - pig
    A lifestyle of cholesterol
    Cross collateralized cholesterol
    Saving what's left from profit margin
    For what?
    I'll tell you what for
    For some irrelevant conscience easing charity - Why?
    Just to justify! Just to justify!

    Look at this utopia
    A society based on solid foundations
    Educate our children - educate them well
    To feather the nest and fuck the rest
    (Yes yes feather thenest and fuck the rest)
    The waste expands
    (As your waist expands)
    While others stand at the back of the queue
    I mean you

    Still the same old security
    For your creature comforts
    Exchanging the hours of your life
    For the cash you've already spent
    Eating rubbish so you can pay the rent
    Table wine once a week if you'relucky
    In comparison

    Privatise the people's lives
    Be part of the company (or fade!)
    The appliance of science to privatise their lives

    Water is our business
    Electricity is our business
    Gas is our business
    Lives are our business
    Business is our business

    Your money - my time
    Your stinking industrial bathwater - my wine
    Imbalance induces hate
    How will you fill the gap
    Between the endless buffet
    And the scraps of food I have

    I feel hate I feel hate
    I feel hate I feel hate
    (Don't be afraid to show your hate, hate!)

    You just treat me like a commodity
    You didn't know I couldn't even afford to feed my family
    I just want to kill
    I just want to take a gun
    And put it to your head
    And pull the trigger

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