Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Age Of Greed , by - Killing Joke. Song from the album Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!, in the genre ИндастриалRelease date: 31.12.1991
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
Age Of Greed |
| Ten percent of the land |
| Is the hand that pulls the strings |
| Be the privileged few (to have to own to hold) |
| Power over the people yes yes |
| Power over people |
| Be the privileged few to have to own to hold |
| Money property assets before lives |
| Green gestures of a dying planet |
| An endless debate only too late |
| An appetite for glutony |
| The only way is up the only way is up |
| But when you are up you have to try and stay there |
| So you stamp and cheat on people |
| Champagne breakfats (rewards for the killing) |
| And a fast waist bulging |
| Indulging, in what you call good living |
| But most of all there is too much fat on your heart — pig |
| A lifestyle of cholesterol |
| Cross collateralized cholesterol |
| Saving what’s left from profit margin |
| For what? |
| I’ll tell you what for |
| For some irrelevant conscience easing charity — Why? |
| Just to justify! |
| Just to justify! |
| Look at this utopia |
| A society based on solid foundations |
| Educate our children — educate them well |
| To feather the nest and fuck the rest |
| (Yes yes feather thenest and fuck the rest) |
| The waste expands |
| (As your waist expands) |
| While others stand at the back of the queue |
| I mean you |
| Still the same old security |
| For your creature comforts |
| Exchanging the hours of your life |
| For the cash you’ve already spent |
| Eating rubbish so you can pay the rent |
| Table wine once a week if you’relucky |
| In comparison |
| Privatise the people’s lives |
| Be part of the company (or fade!) |
| The appliance of science to privatise their lives |
| Water is our business |
| Electricity is our business |
| Gas is our business |
| Lives are our business |
| Business is our business |
| Your money — my time |
| Your stinking industrial bathwater — my wine |
| Imbalance induces hate |
| How will you fill the gap |
| Between the endless buffet |
| And the scraps of food I have |
| I feel hate I feel hate |
| I feel hate I feel hate |
| (Don't be afraid to show your hate, hate!) |
| You just treat me like a commodity |
| You didn’t know I couldn’t even afford to feed my family |
| I just want to kill |
| I just want to take a gun |
| And put it to your head |
| And pull the trigger |