Is This the Life We Really Want?

So, as an example, you're CNN

I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad

I won, I won

And the other thing, chaos, there's zero chaos

We are running, this is a fine-tuned mach

The goose has gotten fat

On caviar in fancy bars

And subprime loans

And broken homes

Is this the life, the holy grail?

It's not enough that we succeed

We still need others to fail

Fear, fear drives the mills of modern man

Fear keeps us all in line

Fear of all those foreigners

Fear of all their crimes

Is this the life we really want? (want, want, want, want)

It surely must be so

For this is a democracy and what we all say goes

And every time a student is run over by a tank

And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank

Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale

And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail

Every time a young girl's life is casually spent

And every time a nincompoop becomes the president

Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys

And every time that Greenland falls in the fucking sea is because

All of us, the blacks and whites

Chicanos, Asians, every type of ethnic group

Even folks from Guadeloupe, the old, the young

Toothless hags, super models, actors, fags, bleeding hearts

Football stars, men in bars, washerwomen, tailors, tarts

Grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts

Friends, relations, homeless tramps

Clerics, truckers, cleaning ladies

Ants, maybe not ants

Why not ants?

Well because it's true

The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between

The pain that other people feel

And well, for instance, cutting leaves

Or crawling across windowsills in search of open treacle tins

So, like the ants, are we just dumb?

Is that why we don't feel or see?

Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?

So, every time the curtain falls