Sweet dreams, all met with derision This train, it was armed for collision It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
Clap your hands in the sparkle and glitter Shake your heads at the twisted and bitter Oh, they don't know how lucky they are
Foot down for the alienation Look on as your love, it gets lost in translation To a language that nobody understands
But there are smiles as they erode and corrupt you Of the great expectations you could never live up to We are lost, we are lost, we are lost
Get you coat, because the righteous are leaving Because they can't work out what the hell to believe in It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
No abandon, no heartfelt desire No love could be worth getting fired For real, it's surreal, it's so real
So paint over the cracks and then cover What you thought was the worst-ever pain with another And the first one, it always comes free
How they love you, so cold and so vicious With friends like these, well, who needs politicians The first one, it always comes free They tell you heroin takes like ice cream
Clever men know all that and all this And they will talk and they will talk and they don't fucking listen It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
It's no life, but God, it's a living Come on, Jesus Christ, come back, all is forgiven We are lost, we are lost, we are lost
Have no fear of the state of the nation Let the facts have no bearing on public relations It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
What a model of Christian behaviour Preach on with the message of "Go fuck thy neighbour" It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame A shame, it's a shame
Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics While they kill in the name of applied mathematics And you hate the system even though you invented it Go kill your brothers and claim self defense of it Picking up all the secrets and the tricks to being One of the guys whom the shit never sticks to Take your seats for the final calamity Don't you look so serious, hell, what can the matter be? Another day and the rot's getting faster And all the machines started killing their master It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame