No Future

Lyrics

[Verse 1] And the buildings stand empty, yet they still stand Stand in the way of progress And the bulldozers come to make their mark And the riot police, they're all lurking in the dark The last bastion of true freedom The freeloaders and squatters on the land The artists and students, the riff-raff and lowlife These buildings have no future and they know it [Verse 2] And there is a plan, an incredible plan To build up the city of the future And all we must do is make these buildings disappear And then their way, it is perfectly clear We're all in the same project together We speak the same language of economics And it makes a lot of sense, and it makes a lot of dollars And if it makes a lot of homeless with no future, so what? [Verse 3] That the towers will be built is not debated We hear them babbling in the press Words like urban planning and revitalization They take away their homes and give them housing instead Though they have the gift of tongues, they have no love Only the clanging of the factory bell Destroying the beauty, the chaos, the understanding That is learned from that school called no future [Verse 4] And what doth it profit a man to leave another homeless? We who dare question this vanity Know that a prophet is not without honor Except among family in its own country Without the past there can be no future The man ranting on the corner's been misunderstood They have destroyed his past and given him no future They look at their creation and they say it is good [Outro] No future No future No future No future