Momus - Art and Design lyrics

When the world is a mess and children
Are strapped to the torture machines
And dictators clamp down
Sending their troops to the centre of things
That's when I turn to art and design
The only two things I can truly call mine

When they kill journalists for
Just doing their
Job and just telling the truth
And when it's suddenly fine for the
Streets to resound with racist abuse
That's when I turn to art and design
To beautiful things from beautiful minds

And artists who look see
Visions of alternate universes
And designers have put all this beauty
Into the things around us
And that's why I turn to art and design
Political things that aren't yet a crime

The most beautiful flowers spring
So they say, from the throats of dead kings
And the beautiful powers come when
People themselves control the machine
That's why I turn to art and design
Beautiful things that change minds