Coldcut - Every Home a Prison lyrics

Rejoice, friends Big government is over From now on, instead of community You will be left In the marketplace To fend for yourselves Claw for yourselves Stab for yourselves Guard for yourselves What little money, savings, dignity, and shelter you have left After your jobs are downsized And exported to Mexico Tennis shoes made by slaves in camps in Indonesia Computer jobs sent across the ocean to Indonesia You will be next unless you bow down, lick our boots And throw your benefits away Your raises away And this is all you have to look forward to Forever and ever and ever As more and more benefits are slashed No more tax-and-spend welfare state A windfall from tax cuts for the rich As more and more people Out in the cold on the street Begging for money And when that doesn't work Robbing people Carjacking Home invasion Everyone taught That life is so cheap There's nothing to look forward to Except what you can score (And smoke in a pipe) Ending welfare as we know it Means third world crime as we know it So why is it All these young people today Misbehave Misbehave Misbehave Don't they appreciate the world we've built for them? Crappy jobs Dog-eat-dog No compa**ion In the marketplace If you like school You'll love work Instead they ditch school And hang out on the screet Yob culture (Hooah!) Young hooligans Everywhere you look (Hooah! x3) On TV anyway And in the newspaper They're causing trouble (Hooah! x3) More and more people Will pour in the streets As their rents go up And job opportunities go down So we have to keep them down Before they rise up And burn our house of cards to the ground It's just the cost of doing business In third world countries where we keep the peasants down We have to live in armed compounds, armed guards Play tennis At gunpoint A different route to work behind bulletproof gla** each day But hey, the more the hordes hate you, more status you've got Why not do this with the whole world? With GATT treaties Downsizing But what about those goddamn hooligans in the street? We stole their future It's all their fault We must lock them up There's no room in the jails So the best way to sweep them away Make every home a prison today Curfew Curfew Who cares how much our leaders are corrupt, as long as they're tough on crime Curfew Keep them away Curfew No longer unauthorized activity You can't leave the home without an electronic ankle bracelet Your offenders must be tagged and watched at all times Tag their parents with bracelets too if they don't obey For that matter, tag them at work and make them stay The main enemy Terrorist threat Is your own children Think about it The music they listen to That tells them the world is bad It's the songs that are the problem, not the violence outside Keep them locked up Keep them in curfew Put them away Don't let them out We're tougher on crime Before the election We want a national law establishing children's bedtime The bedtime patrol Will check up on you Bedtime patrol Make sure your bracelet's on The nanny state To reach down your pants And check and see if you've been moistening yourselves With any unauthorized substance Without permission Tag them Curfew them Keep them down Keep them at home To school To rent a video on the way gome And stay home Just like at work Do not gather after dark Curfew It's such a family-oriented word A much more acceptable, smiling, soft word A much more palatable concept Than martial law Put your bracelets on You're safer when you're watched Don't go outside You'll set the alarm off Curfew Forever and ever and ever