The Common Good

[Verse 1] You think we won't remember who caused this You think we'll forget You think we'll bury our heads, stay alone, stay separate All the lies and smears, and projected fears Knowing smirks, circle jerks Sat at the back, loaded, golden, untouchable, shit work, stick-able You think you can simply hide That you can profit from this misery And that we should forget the divide Fuel the phobia, ramp the bile Sweaty buffoons in victorian style Open the door to hate driven chancers As wе're scrambling around in the shit Suffocating under right wing rhеtoric Selling everything we've ever earned To make it weak to week to week Until there's nothing left A nation of rotting skin and bone Forgotten towns, unattended wounds Bleeding out from a council cut Onto the streets like abattoir guts Drowning the rats in blood Drowned the rats in blood [Refrain] All for the common good (Good) All for the common good (Good) All for the common good [Verse 2] And you think we're gone And you think you've won We're done, fully under Subservient proles, on a diet of shit And crocodile teared spit You think you've destroyed us The last idealistic glory, of the empires gun Fabricated days of wine and roses and a racist sun Because it was never better than it was back then As we're force fed days, remembering when As we snub progress We face the abyss I look into the eyes I look into the eyes A Dickensian corpse, swinging from a bridge You don't deserve this You don't suffer this These streets don't look like your streets These houses are not homes This is not your air or grace Your hatred is not welcome here Your hatred is not welcome here Those cold dead eyes And the blood drips down And the blood drips down down down The blood drips down This nation frowns [Refrain] All for the common good (Good) All for the common good (Good) All for the common good (Good) All for the common good (Good) All for the common good