Failed States

Take a look at the powers that be

Still believing they're making history

Cruising on that diesel course

Forcing life into a long-dead horse

Every time one well is emptied

Another foreign strike is pre-empted

We're living on old fossil lives

And lead by men cheating for their prize...

Wars, shame and self-abuse

Failed states are on the news

All nations have to choose

Survival or the noose

We got the world to lose

Old men draining the land

Their souls turning to holes

Penniless men were given their pens

And the hanged-man rules

With his split-brain views

Blinded like mice we try to throw the dice

With our hands tied up

The money train don't stop