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The Common Good Lyrics by Benefits

2020

[Verse 1]
You think we won't remember who caused this
You think we'll forget
You think we'll bury our heads, stay alone, stay separate
All the lies and smears, and projected fears
Knowing smirks, circle jerks
Sat at the back, loaded, golden, untouchable, shit work, stick-able
You think you can simply hide
That you can profit from this misery
And that we should forget the divide
Fuel the phobia, ramp the bile
Sweaty buffoons in victorian style
Open the door to hate driven chancers
As wе're scrambling around in the shit
Suffocating under right wing rhеtoric
Selling everything we've ever earned
To make it weak to week to week
Until there's nothing left
A nation of rotting skin and bone
Forgotten towns, unattended wounds
Bleeding out from a council cut
Onto the streets like abattoir guts
Drowning the rats in blood
Drowned the rats in blood
[Refrain]
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good
[Verse 2]
And you think we're gone
And you think you've won
We're done, fully under
Subservient proles, on a diet of shit
And crocodile teared spit
You think you've destroyed us
The last idealistic glory, of the empires gun
Fabricated days of wine and roses and a racist sun
Because it was never better than it was back then
As we're force fed days, remembering when
As we snub progress
We face the abyss
I look into the eyes
I look into the eyes
A Dickensian corpse, swinging from a bridge
You don't deserve this
You don't suffer this
These streets don't look like your streets
These houses are not homes
This is not your air or grace
Your hatred is not welcome here
Your hatred is not welcome here
Those cold dead eyes
And the blood drips down
And the blood drips down down down
The blood drips down
This nation frowns
[Refrain]
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good (Good)
All for the common good
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