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London Grammar - If You Wait (Calibre Alternate Remix)
The System is Lying to You
I remember when there were only two channels,
Politics were read about and C coffee was drunk,
The news was watched at 7:30 every day,
Always the same story, always the same gang.
Back then it was easy to spread propaganda,
People believed the words from the screen,
There was no room to hear the other side,
Until somewhere across the way, the plan changed.
Today, after wars, protests, and changes,
Democracy, the internet, and new technologies,
The fight for rights and freedom of speech,
After everything, it's all the same as it ever was.
Liars and puppets are still in power,
Following orders and stealing everything for themselves,
A thousand channels and all the social networks are useless,
We bury our heads in the screen and everyone runs from conflict!
Chorus
The system is lying to you, don't believe what it says,
This life is a fight, from birth to the grave,
So get up now!
Since I was little, they've been lying to me and working me like an ox,
Telling me about Joža sledding in a trough,
They gave me a scarf, a flag, and an oath,
That comrades don't sell each other, not even for a spoonful of kajmak.
And the big shots have settled into villas in Dedinje,
Supposedly we're all the same, but the pigs are still in charge.
So we wanted democracy, went out into the street,
Wasted energy, got screwed!
Foreign agencies pulled me like a monkey,
To drink tear gas, to screw up our country.
Now we listen to tall tales from the mouths of bad actors,
But they're not the government, just a puppet show.
I know who's lying to me and who's crushing me,
Banks, the IMF, corporations are important.
And the system exists to make money for them,
And there will be justice only when this empire falls!
Chorus:
The system is lying to you, don't believe what it says,
This life is a fight, from birth to the grave,
So get up now!
A man believes what he sees, a man believes what he hears,
Doesn't realize that from birth his brain is being poisoned,
By the propaganda of the system, whatever the system is called,
Tabloids, television, spun reality.
Which works to make you lose your identity,
To be just an obedient, rotten mediocrity,
To shift the blame, to vent on the innocent,
The anger that you're blind, that you've been fooled again.
You got fired, those are reforms, it has to be,
No salary, late installments, they cut off the electricity right away,
So you wait for the cops and the bailiffs to come,
Like your ancestors once waited for the Turks on their wedding night.
And you were silent, believed, hoped, voted,
Now you can't believe how you ended up at the bottom,
So pull yourself together in time, when it hurts, say it out loud,
You don't owe it to the bank, but you owe it to your children!
Chorus:
The system is lying to you, don't believe what it says,
This life is a fight, from birth to the grave,
So get up now!