Is This the Life We Really Want? (Explicit)

Is This the Life We Really Want? (Explicit) - Roger Waters

Written by：Roger Waters

Yo as a example

You're CNN I mean it's story after story after story is bad

I won I won

And the other thing chaos

There's zero chaos we are running

This is a fine tuned machine

The goose has gotten fat

On caviar and fancy bars

And subprime bones

And broken homes

Is this the life the holy grail

It's not enough that we succeed

We still need others to fail

Fear fear drives the mills of modern man

Fear keeps us all in line

Fear of all those foreigners

Fear of all their crimes

Is this the life we really want want want want

It surely must be so

For this is a democracy and what we all say goes

And every time a student is run over by a tank

And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank

Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale

And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail

Every time a young girl's life is casually spent

And every time a nincompoop becomes the president

Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys

And every time the green land falls in the f**king sea is because

All of us the blacks and whites

Chicanos Asians every time of ethnic group

Even folks from Guadeloupe the old the young

Toothless hags super models actors fags bleeding hearts

Football stars men in bars washerwomen tailors tarts

Grandmas grandpas uncles aunts

Friends relations homeless tramps

Clerics truckers cleaning ladies

Ants maybe not ants

Why not ants

Well because it's true

The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between

The pain that other people feel and well for instance cutting leaves

Or crawling across window seals in search of open treacle tins

So like the ants are we just dumb

Is that why we don't feel or see

Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV

So every time the curtain falls

Every time the curtain falls on some forgotten life

It is because we all stood by silent and indifferent