Asian Dub Foundation - Who Runs This Place? lyrics

First sign of madness you talk to yourself second sign of madness yourself talks back First sign of madness you talk to yourself second sign of madness yourself talks back Please select the following option is no longer an option Select the following option means you have no option I'm shouting out loud with the rest of the shower Shaking our fists in vain down the corridors of power Been Queueing and queueing for God know how many hours Outside the tent pissing in for this long man it's a downer They say the buck stops here but if it does I never see it following the fingers pointing opposite directions I lost it Took me a week to see the boss to learn that he's not in charge A1000 people said they could so that one could say they can't and I see vast quantities of people without a face I don't know who runs this place I don't know who runs this place Tell me how high I gotta go all the way from God to the devil below Before I get to want I really wanna know And I wanna know WHO RUN DA PLACE? The figures are wrong the network's knackered Cashpoint is Kaput and me nerves are shattered You have an infinite choice over the things that don't matter One elite or two more Thatcherite than Thatcher In a race to the d**h with a white van man I admit defeat I'm the man with no plan Watch a vampire a poodle a chat show host with a tan Try to squeeze into a 3 second attention span And I stick two fingers up into outer space I don't know who runs this place I don't know who runs this place Tell me how high I gotta go all the way from God to the devil below Before I get to want I really wanna know And I wanna know WHO RUN DA PLACE? Prime minister or chancellor television or newspaper Foreign banks or backhanders Traffic wardens or arms dealers Lizardmen or aliens Mondeo man or estate agents Presidency or illuminati One thing I know it ain't you or me They must never succeed in turning us into them