You're Damned If You Consume, You're Damned If You Vote (alt Lyrics) Songtext

...as it slipped through the cracks

corruption took its toll

maybe our system has never been different

we're just content with tools

in a government that owns us

or did we forget

when raising votes means raising money

one must of course raise their voice to be heard



republican's fight democrats
third parties take the blame

the battle's really superficial

played out for the game

but this game's got a price

the price of stolen lives

a price being paid by the masses

while Siegfried and C.P.D.

divert your eyes



a paranoid devotion

lesser evil costs more

than votes that go to business

and politician/whores



they won't defend you

they don't represent you

'cause they know that money goes further than voting does

they won't defend you

they don't represent you

'cause they know that money goes further than voting does



democracy's gasping

drowning in money and we put it there

so what's the point asking

for freedom when freedom means more money here?

democracy's gasping

drowning in money and we put it there

so what's the point asking

for freedom when freedom means more drowning here?



I'll tell you what the point is

if you can tell me where we went wrong

consumption's a drug

and we're addicted

the pushers are hooked too and frightened as hell

that they might lose their fix

to get it they'll risk human kind



(big) business is laughing

'cause we're in their hands

like the blood of our freedom

like parrots for crackers

we'll do any trick they ask us to do

our leaders do the same

'cause rigged elections elect leaders who play the riggers' game



they won't defend you

they don't represent you

'cause they know that money goes further than voting does



...as it slips through the cracks

corruption takes its toll

maybe our system has never been different

we're just content with tools

in a government that owns us

or did we forget

when raising votes means raising money

one must of course raise their voice to be heard