Kneejerk - I Saw That Look lyrics

The morning doesn't hold the same fascination
As it once did in my naivety
Because the ceiling above my bedroom
Belies the real situation:
The crushing of the human spirit

The greatest crime i can conceive
Is the relegation of minds and hearts to
The answering of the impending question:
To live or to die free?

We'll shake with the fear
And hate of centuries
There's a force inside of me
Some kind of burning fever
That makes me feel alive and beautiful
The creation inherent in destruction
The pulse of dissent
The heartbeat of an ancient struggle

There's a sickness in the air
A final yearning clamour
Let's lynch the heros of distraction
And feel the fire course through our
Veins down to our fingertips
And thus destroy your cities of gold

We'll shake with the fear
And hate of centuries

"I see all this potential
And I see squandering god damn it, an entire
Generation pumping gas
Waiting tables slaves with white
Collars advertising has
Us chasing cars and clothes
Working jobs we hate so we can
Buy shit we don't need we're
The middle children of history
Man no purpose or place we
Have no Great War no Great Depression our
Great War's a spiritual war our
Great Depression is our lives we've all
Been raised on television to believe
That one day we'd all be
Millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars
But we won't and we're slowly learning
That fact and we're very, very pissed off"

So there we were
These two great hostile camps
The crackle of radio static between us
As the struggle changes from
Being state versus people
To being creativity versus stagnation
And would you believe could you imagine
The spark in the air that made us
All feel a hundred metres tall?
So we swayed to that incessant beat
A thousand hearts as one
Dancing in the morning sunshine
Under a shower of streamers and broken glass
The wall we dash ourselves
On is blank perspex
Scratched with desperate fingernails
And as that drummer raises his
Sticks for one last number
I realize i haven't seen a single naked pair
Of eyes along the whole damn line
But then i catch it
That glance of phyrric victory
Because you know the day is ours in the end
So stop trying to hide it
I've seen that look in your eyes
I've seen it we've only got just one chance
To make this mark
So we'd better make sure it's the best one