Lives In Chains

(album: Let It Rock - 1996)

Freak shows, talk shows
Living off our misery
Dozens of psychics celebrity sidekicks
Telling us all just what we need to know
Guess it's a sign of the times
Guess it's the way of the day
Nothing but vertical lines empty minds

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains

Hey there Miss Oprah what's doing today?
Just smiling at me on TV
Why go anywhere? We can shop from a chair
In this remote society
I seen it coming around
Will I be here for the day?
Can we survive underground? Going down

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
While you're eating at our brains
We live our lives in chains

Coming on the air
Going to knock you in your chair
Boy wait till you hear the news
Got a woman coming on
Who can really get it on
Going to show you what she can do

Got a family in a fight
Going to help them get it right
Going to straighten out their miserable lives
We got it all here on the show
And we want you all to know
If you miss this one you're going to die
Turn me on

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains
Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't care what it means
Just love to hear you talking
As we live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
While you're eating at our brains

We live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
I just don't understand
Why we live our lives in chains
Shackled to the air
We live our lives in chains