All avenues blocked off Following the stench of profit Forward thinking impaired All minds closed tight Charcoal blinders on Widespread hearing loss Suffocating stagnation The world stops turning Ready to pull the trigger Slip our necks in the noose Happy to oblige If there's no other way Orwell's nightmare Slowly reveals itself At an end! No other way! Unadvanced Kept in the past No real change To our day-to-day Brains retreat Old forms of defeat We believe What we're told to see Trudge to work, watching our feet Nothing to look at up above our heads Plugged in to our beloved lifeline Never noticing the future at an end At an end! No other way!