Brother Where You Bound

(album: Brother Where You Bound - 1985)

"All persons whom we bring to this place are washed clean Winston. The execution of their sentences is relatively unimportant. By the time we have finished with them there is nothing left in them but sorrow for what they have done and love for Big Brother. It is touching to see how they love Big Brother."

"In 1924 the Communist Party published a book by Bogdanov, 'A Short Course in Economic Science', in which he stated that socialism was the highest possible height in human development..."

"Russian demand that British troops be be withdrawn from Greece is only a move in the propaganda campaign against the British, which the Russians were conducting all through..."

"Paris: Diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the Kremlin are very, very bad. They will get very, very much worse."

Here comes the candle to light you to bed
Here comes the chopper to chop of your head

There's a red cloud hanging over us
And it's so big and it's gonna burst
All you people with your heads in the ground
Hey brother, where you bound?

And they're no good and they're everywhere
Try to tell you, but you just don't care
Yes I hear you, but you don't make a sound
Hey brother, where you bound?
Hey brother, where you bound?

And you don't know what they're gonna do
And you don't know how they feel
And you don't know what they're telling you
Is it a lie or is it real?
And the next thing that you know is
That they walk out on the deal

And the message that they're giving you
Is the same old alibi
If you don't quite see their point of view
Then they treat you like a spy
And the phone rings and you disappear
In the middle of the night

Can't you see they're on the move
Don't know what you're trying to prove
But you sit there oh so cool
Like they never broke no rules

And the cat flies and the crow walks
And the ghost dies and the sow talks
And they tell us that they'll be good as gold
Hey brother, where's your soul?
Believe nothing that you're told

Make a move in one direction
Try to make some compromise
But they greet you with rejection
Making out you're telling lies
Then they turn around and tell you
Better get down from the sky

For the sake of all that's holy
Listen good to what I say
I can feel them all around me
They could be here any day
But you act like you don't know me
Why d'you look at me that way?

If there's one thing that is clear
We gotta get away from here
We've gotta leave this place
It's just a hopeless case
Ain't no one else to blame
We're gonna lose this game

Hey brother, get off my back
I gotta tell you, you're way off the track
They got a hatred deep down inside
Ain't gonna let them take me alive

I'm gonna burn them down, just wait and see
Ain't gonna let them walk over me
You ain't got no heart and soul
And your mind is weak and your blood's running cold

You better move, you better hide
They're getting in, they're getting inside
If you get caught you better know
They're gonna reap, you're gonna sow

Don't be a fool, we gotta go
Ain't no place safe for us to stay
We better move on, we better move on
We better move on, we better move on
We better move on, we better move on