Becoming You

Lyrics

You promised us a system worth believing in Where we could flourish in the sun A world we could move freely through And raise our children in Where justice raised a sword for everyone And then we started noticing the way you got things done The lobbying, corruption and the pain With faltering enthusiasm we still stumbled on Through the rain We studied to get good at something Flourished, took a bow Won some paltry colours on the way Cut some corners, told some lies Blew up some holy cows But we were never holier than they The closer that we got to you The filthier we felt Contracting your corruption by the hour So much for the glory, so much for high ideals We became the filthy functionaries of power It's not as if we really fancied dying in the cause You never offered things worth dying for In comfortable humiliation still we stumbled on Hoping to get through Without becoming you Never tell me pragmatism is a dirty word You know it puts the bacon on the plate You've seen the losers falling one by one away As their dreams of adequacy fade And the closer that we got to you Through all the time we gave Enacting your corruption by the hour Added up to nothing, at the end of every day But an urgent need to take an endless shower And time is running out for all the things we planned to do To make this world a better place And so we stumble on, it's what we've grown accustomed to Becoming you Becoming you