Bad Religion - Old Regime lyrics
[Bad Religion - Old Regime lyrics]
One, two, three!
Privilege from birth, abhorrence of work
Obsessed with sovereignty
Aristocrats claim an exemption
From the standards of democracy
A secret antipathy to justice and equality
And a tightly constrained definition
Of who is free
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime woah oh oh oh
They think that they can alter and sway
Which version of freedom reigns
If everything is subjective
Then what good is truth anyway?
A plutocratic strategy or
Technocrat conspiracy
Or a vision of utopia that
Only the besotten can see
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime
An unabated tendency to tyranny
Is still in place
And the ancient nobility's complexion
Differs just in name
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
A new season dawns with ominous prophecy
(Ah ah)
Yeah, the new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime woah oh oh oh
Privilege from birth, abhorrence of work
Obsessed with sovereignty
Aristocrats claim an exemption
From the standards of democracy
A secret antipathy to justice and equality
And a tightly constrained definition
Of who is free
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime woah oh oh oh
They think that they can alter and sway
Which version of freedom reigns
If everything is subjective
Then what good is truth anyway?
A plutocratic strategy or
Technocrat conspiracy
Or a vision of utopia that
Only the besotten can see
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
The new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime
An unabated tendency to tyranny
Is still in place
And the ancient nobility's complexion
Differs just in name
Old regime, smoke of history
Liberty still wafting in the breeze
A new season dawns with ominous prophecy
(Ah ah)
Yeah, the new aristocracy just smells
Like the old regime woah oh oh oh