Momus - Rootless Cosmopolitans lyrics

Rootless cosmopolitans the hubris
Makes you hoot
You watch us travel round the world
And even follow suit
But times have changed, and mother
Standing at the garden gate
Calls us home for dinner
With the nation state

We dreamed we could live anywhere
And some actually did
Taking flats in Paris, Brussels and Madrid
Learning other languages
With other points of view
It became, back in the 90s
Something anyone could do

We took it all for granted
That expansion of the cage
Global, multicultural
The catchwords of the age
But, scapegoated by populists
Our freedoms go to hell
Because if we can do it
So can immigrants as well

We dreamed we could live anywhere
And started moving in
To beautiful apartments in Lisbon and Berlin
With other cosmopolitans with other
Points of view showing local people that was
Something you could do

Rootless cosmopolitans
It's so great to be free
You listened to the travellers' tales
And started to agree
But hubris requires nemesis
The guardians of the gate
Call us in to dine again
With the nation state

Rootless cosmopolitans
Pretension makes you hoot
At elitists and precarians
Under your jackboot
But scapegoated by populists the whole
Thing flew to hell because if we can do it
So can immigrants as well