Automatic For The People

R.E.M Automatic For The People Album

8.Ignoreland

these bastards stole their power from the victims of the us v
them

years
wrecking all things virtuous and true
the undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal
lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool
they hypnotised the summer nineteen seventy nine
marched into the capital brooding duplicitous wicked and able
media

ready
heartless and labeled super u s citizen super achiever
mega ultra power dosing relax
defense defense defense defense yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah ignoreland yeah yeah yeah ignoreland

the information nation took their clues from all the sound bite

gluttons
nineteen eighty eighty four eighty eight ninety two too too
how to be what you can be jump jam junking your energies
how to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
they amplified the autumn nineteen seventy nine
calculate the capital up the republic my skinny ass
t v tells a million lies the paper's terrified to report
anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon
i'm just profoundly frustrated by all this so fuck you man fuck
'm
yeah yeah yeah ignoreland yeah yeah yeah ignoreland

if they weren't there we would have created them maybe it's true
but i'm resentful all the same someone's got to take the blame
i know that this is vitriol no solution spleen venting
but i feel better having screamed don't you
they desecrated winter nineteen seventy nine
capital collateral brooding duplicitous wicked and able media
ready
heartless and labeled super u s citizen super achiever
mega ultra power dosing relax
defense defense defense defense yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah ignoreland yeah yeah yeah ignoreland
yeah yeah yeah ignoreland yeah yeah yeah