People See Through You - Bruce Cockburn

    you've got covert action
    prejudice to extremes
    you've got primitive cunning
    and high tech means
    you've got eyes everywhere
    but people see through you

    you've got good manipulators
    got your store of dupes
    you've got the idiot clamour
    of your lobby groups
    you like to play on fears
    but people see through you

        you've got instant communication
        instant data tabulation
        you got the forces of occupation
        but you don't get capitulation
        cause people see through you

    you've got the sounding brass
    you've got the triumph of the will
    you do what you want to
    and we pay the bills
    you hype the need for sacrifice
    but people see through you

    you've got anti-matter language
    contrived to conceal
    you've been lying so long
    you don't know what's real
    you're a figment of your own imagination
    and people see through you

        you've got lip service tributaries
        you've got death fetish mercenaries
        you hold the tickets to the cemetaries
        you're BIG and BAD and SCARY
        but people see through you

    (BRIDGENORTH, 25/8/85)
     

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