Such a Shame Lyrics

Has the time really come to be paralysed?

To avert our eyes in antipathy?

While your pockets grow fat

From the battle ground

From the hatred pound

From the scum like me?

And it's such a shame

And it's such a shame

It's such a shame

That we all bow our heads while you falter

With our heroes defanged by your stereotypes

All smaller than life

Are there none who will fight?

Are we all so enthralled by the cathode glare?

Hate the villains there

Fuck the ones outside?

And it's such a shame

And it's such a shame

It's such a shame

That we all bow our heads while you falter

Well last night I walked past your rainy street

Past the armed police

And the gilded halls

While the public pay in silence to plutocrats

Like doped-up lab rats

Who will heed the call?

And it's such a shame

And it's such a shame

It's such a shame

That we all bow our heads while you falter

And it's such a shame

And it's such a shame

It's such a shame

That we all bow our heads while you falter

We all turn our heads while you falter

We all turn our heads