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