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Beat (en) Generation (Live)

Release date: 13th August 2021

From The Comeback Special

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About This Track

"Beat (en) Generation (Live)" is a track by The The, from the album The Comeback Special, released 13th August 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Beat (en) Generation (Live)

[Verse 1]

When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this once proud nation

Can you sense the fear and the hatred

Growing in the hearts of its population?

And now youth, oh, youth, are being seduced

By the greedy hands of politics and half truths

[Chorus]

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Reared on a diet

Of prejudice and misinformation

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Open your eyes

Open your imagination

[Verse 2]

We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes and hypnotised by the satellites

Into believing what is good and what is right

You may be worshipping the temples of Mammon

Or lost in the prisons of religion

But can you still walk back to happiness

When there's nowhere left to run?

[Chorus]

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Reared on a diet

Of prejudice and misinformation

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Open your eyes

Open your imagination

[Verse 3]

If they send in the special police

To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace

Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues

When they tell us justice is being done

And freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?

[Chorus]

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Reared on a diet

Of prejudice and misinformation

The beaten generation

The beaten generation

Open your eyes

Open your imagination

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Track details

From The Comeback Special

2021

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Album

The Comeback Special

Release year

2021

—Helpline Operator (Live)
—Like a Sun Rising Thru My Garden (Live)
—Slow Emotion Replay (Live)
—True Happiness (Live)
—This is the Day (Live)
—Dogs Of Lust (Live)
—Global Eyes (Live)
—I've Been Waiting for Tomorrow (All of My Life) [Live]
—Uncertain Smile (Live)
—Love Is Stronger Than Death (Live)
—Flesh & Bones (Live)
—This is the Night (Live)
—Heartland (Live)
—Sweet Bird of Truth (Live)
—A Long Hard Lazy Apprenticeship (Live)
—Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) [Live]
—We Can't Stop What's Coming (Live)
—Soul Catcher (Live)
—Infected (Live)
—Phantom Walls (Live)
—Lonely Planet (Live)
—Beyond Love (Live)
—Bugle Boy (Live)
—Beat (en) Generation (Live)

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