Europe Is Lost - Kate Tempest.mp3

[00:04.22]“Europe Is Lost”
[01:05.45]Europe is lost, America lost, London lost
[01:09.34]Still we are clamouring victory
[01:11.16]All that is meaningless rules
[01:12.95]We have learned nothing from history
[01:15.01]People are dead in their lifetimes
[01:16.69]Dazed in the shine of the streets
[01:18.35]But look how the traffic's still moving
[01:20.26]The system’s too slick to stop working
[01:21.98]Business is good. And there’s bands every night in the pubs
[01:24.57]And there’s two for one drinks in the clubs
[01:26.64]And we scrubbed up well
[01:27.79]We washed off the work and the stress
[01:29.85]Now all we want’s some excess
[01:31.35]Better yet; A night to remember that we’ll soon forget
[01:34.56]All of the blood that was bled for these cities to grow
[01:37.10]All of the bodies that fell
[01:39.53]The roots that were dug from the earth
[01:41.45]So these games could be played
[01:42.96]I see it tonight in the stains on my hands
[01:44.56]The buildings are screaming
[01:46.51]I can't ask for help though, nobody knows me
[01:49.18]Hostile, worried, lonely
[01:51.10]We move in our packs and these are the rights we were born to
[01:53.95]Working and working so we can be all that we want
[01:56.95]Then dancing the drudgery off
[01:58.59]But even the drugs have got boring
[02:01.10]Well, shit is still good when you get it
[02:04.18]To sleep, to dream, to keep the dream in reach
[02:06.58]To each a dream
[02:07.90]Don’t weep, don’t scream
[02:08.95]Just keep it in
[02:10.12]Keep sleeping in
[02:11.31]What am I gonna do to wake up?
[02:13.79]I feel the cost of it pushing my body
[02:18.63]Like I push my hands into pockets
[02:20.45]And softly I walk and I see it, this is all we deserve
[02:23.23]The wrongs of our past have resurfaced
[02:25.34]Despite all we did to vanquish the traces
[02:27.63]My very language is tainted
[02:30.23]With all that we stole to replace it with this
[02:32.47]I am quiet
[02:33.56]Feeling the onset of riot
[02:35.11]Riots are tiny though
[02:36.56]Systems are huge
[02:37.52]The traffic keeps moving, proving there’s nothing to do
[02:40.07]It’s big business baby and its smile is hideous
[02:42.77]Top down violence, a structural viciousness
[02:45.35]Your kids are ****ed up on medical sedatives
[02:47.80]But don’t worry bout that, man. Worry bout terrorists
[02:50.43]The water levels rising! The water levels rising!
[02:52.53]The animals, the elephants, the polarbears are dying!
[02:54.83]Stop crying. Start buying
[02:56.45]But what about the oil spill?
[02:57.55]Shh. No one likes a party pooping spoil sport
[03:00.46]B*****s b*****s b*****s/new shoes
[03:02.51]Ghettoised children murdered in broad daylight by those employed to protect them
[03:06.96]Live porn streamed to your pre-teen's bedrooms
[03:09.53]Glass ceiling, no headroom
[03:11.24]Half a generation live beneath the breadline
[03:13.90]Oh but it's happy hour on the high street
[03:16.62]Friday night at last lads, my treat!
[03:18.65]All went fine till that kid got glassed in the last bar
[03:21.83]Place went ****, you can ask our Lou
[03:24.09]It was madness, the road ran red, pure claret
[03:26.61]And about them immigrants? I can't stand them
[03:29.02]Mostly, I mind my own business
[03:30.97]They’re only coming over here to get rich
[03:33.22]It’s a sickness
[03:34.37]England! England!
[03:35.47]Patriotism!
[03:36.65]And you wonder why kids want to die for religion?
[03:39.30]It goes
[03:39.74]Work all your life for a pittance
[03:40.87]Maybe you’ll make it to manager
[03:42.75]Pray for a raise
[03:43.81]Cross the beige days off on your beach babe calendar
[03:46.12]The anarchists are desperate for something to smash
[03:48.47]Scandalous pictures of fashionable rappers in glamorous magazines
[03:51.99]Who’s dating who?
[03:53.58]Politico cash in an envelope
[03:55.08]Caught sniffing lines off a rock star's prosthetic d**k
[03:57.60]And it's back to the house of lords with slapped wrists
[04:00.83]They abduct kids and **** the heads of dead pigs
[04:02.84]But him in a hoodie with a couple of spliffs –
[04:05.59]Jail him, he’s the cri****l
[04:06.87]Jail him, he’s the cri****l
[04:10.87]It's the BoredOfItAll generation
[04:12.89]The product of product placement and manipulation
[04:15.25]Shoot em up, brutal, duty of care
[04:17.12]Come on, new shoes
[04:18.75]Beautiful hair
[04:19.86]****ed up saccharine ballads
[04:21.53]And selfies
[04:22.39]And selfies
[04:22.95]And selfies
[04:23.54]And here’s me outside the palace of ME!
[04:25.75]Construct a self and psychosis
[04:27.68]And meanwhile the people are dead in their droves
[04:29.70]But nobody noticed
[04:31.41]Well some of them noticed
[04:32.47]You could tell by the emoji they posted
[04:34.54]Sleep like a gloved hand covers our eyes
[04:37.45]The lights are so nice and bright and lets dream
[04:39.73]But some of us are stuck like stones in a slipstream
[04:41.90]What am I gonna do wake up?
[04:44.63]We are lost
[04:47.82]We are lost
[04:48.29]We are lost
[04:48.76]And still nothing
[04:49.28]Will stop
[04:49.93]Nothing pauses
[04:50.81]We have ambitions and friendships and courtships to think of
[04:53.93]Divorces to drink off the thought of
[04:55.81]The money
[04:56.88]The money
[04:57.54]The oil
[04:58.15]The planet is shaking and spoiled
[04:59.93]Life is a plaything
[05:00.88]A garment to soil
[05:02.22]The toil the toil
[05:03.75]I can't see an ending at all
[05:06.17]Only the end
[05:07.68]How is this something to cherish?
[05:09.09]When the tribesmen are dead in their deserts
[05:10.83]To make room for alien structures
[05:12.62]Develop
[05:13.32]Develop
[05:13.99]And kill what you find if it threatens you
[05:16.35]No trace of love in the hunt for the bigger buck
[05:18.42]Here in the land where nobody gives a ****