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Backlash

from Millennia Madness by Citizen Fish

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BACKLASH

They're shifting the blame for the problems
Away from the people who made them
Pointing the figures and fingers at those
Who have already found the solutions

The squatters who took themselves in
Reducing the homeless and using the homes
The travellers who said goodbye to it all
And hello to anyone else on that road

The kids are ram-raiding their boredom
Reproducing themselves on TV
With no aims or future before them
The future got faster to see

"They" are the headline writers
"They" are the faces on screens
"They" are the seekers of status
"They" are the words in a speech

Prepared for the total rejection
Of all that they say they can do
After the strikes and the backlash
The people will want something new

But instead of reversing the process
And listening out for ideas
They'll turn the attention to lifestyles
Untouched by their stirring up fear

And divert the anger and protest
Away from their actions, inactions
Fictions, denial, contradictions
Image-forming, status-building power-games
Names with titles, mind-games
Diverting the blame by diverting the problem
"Yes, but now look at THIS situation"

Here we all go attacking the minority
Same old thing, but a different label
Pretty soon we'll all be in one or another
Dividing the majority is keeping them stable

It's basically a case of replacing the reality
Of people living out their own variety
With misinformation about the state of the nation
Being down not to the Government
But a lack of morality

The only morality they understand
Is a belief in control and the status quo
Anyone succeeding in escaping these things
Becomes a target when the fuses blow

Me, I've never squatted nor lived on site
But I've seen enough to know what's right
I've watched both sides of this lifestyle fence
And it's more than politics it's common sense

Nobody does what they don't want to
The state exists to promote itself
Given alternatives of what you could do
You wouldn't need the state, nor would anybody else!

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from Millennia Madness, released September 1, 1995

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