The punters gather at primetime On the flat screens of their dreams To vote for dumb celebrity And witter into gathering storms Of universal screams The great shampooed are stranded With the cowgirls in the sand Here in Cloud Cuckooland We are condemned We are condemned To make The same mistakes Over and over and over and over And over and over again The bankers slide their stethoscopes Into the public purse To track genetic foreclosure From coitus to delivery From ovary to hearse They creep around the spreadsheets
With the dodger's sleight of hand Here in Cloud Cuckooland We are condemned We are condemned To make The same mistakes Over and over and over and over And over and over again The corporations occupy The moral middle ground Selling weapons to the world As socially acceptable Religously immaculate Enforcers of the crowned While necessary evil Lends an ever willing hand Here in Cloud Cuckoland We are condemned We are condemned To make The same mistakes Over and over and over and over And over and over again