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Can't Complain

from Millennia Madness by Citizen Fish

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CAN'T COMPLAIN

In a state of mutual desperation
We declared our level of alienation
Any silent crowded situation
It felt so full of concentration
Never looking in that direction
Sat on the end of a private section of wood
The waiting room conversation
Still waiting to break the speculation

And the same thing's happening all over again
People taking their solitude out of the rain
And into their houses to the same refrain
"Have a nice day, dear?" "Can't complain"

Cos the dream of anything ever changing
Remains a nightmare of really stating what you feel
So you carry on waiting
For someone else to say they understand
But it will always go as someone else has planned
The capitulating silence gives them the upper hand

There's always someone louder who will tell you want to do
There's always some instructions at the front-end of the queue
And in this mass of silence there's more than just a few
Who would love to burst out laughing cause they've thought of something new
But only if they knew for sure they're not the only one
Cos so often the reaction is as if you'd fired a gun
The shattering of silence
Is so often seen as violence

Just goes to show that fear of altered circumstance is rife
A fear imposed by those who say that rituals in life
Are needed to sustain the draining off of inspiration
So no-one ever dare complain about their situation

Imagine what the change could be
If what was thought so constantly was said
Not kept locked up inside our heads
Too many people thinking, "No one thinks like this
What if no one else agrees? It is too much of a risk"
A nod and half a glance contain
The contents of a super-brain
For all we know, or he could be insane
But its hard to tell cos he looks the same
And anyway he didn't say his name
Not that anyone dared to ask

All of us playing the waiting game
In a state of mutual desperation
No use saying 'Oh, I can't complain'
If you want to change a situation

Imagine what the change could be
If what was thought so constantly was said
Not kept locked up inside our heads

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from Millennia Madness, released September 1, 1995

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