Get it Back

Hear it on the radio
Watch it on tv
All over the newspaper
And the CBC
A million ideas
And every one for free
But there’s nothing like it honey
Static democracy

I’ve seen you in the circles
On the cross 
Markin’ the x
I’ve seen you in the voter’s box
With the politics of sex
I’ve seen you in the dark
But you look better in the light
A million miles away
A burnin’ satellite

Oh we all fall down
It’s better on the ground, don’ t you think?

It’s hard to get it back
When it only wants to bend
It’s hard to give out hope
When it’s despair that people lend
It’s easy to know everyone
When you haven’t found a friend
And it’s hard to find the answers
When everything’s pretend

I’m every room we’ve been in
Every word you said
I’m frozen in a moment
Counted among the dead
You took love for a passage
You took distance for a sham
They took you for a lion
Slaughtered you like a lamb

Oh we all fall down
It’s better on the ground, don’ t you think?
It’s hard to make the link
Between what you are and what you know is true

[chorus]

It’s religion through the window
Holy neon light
It promises the day
And it treats you like the night
Communication’s down
It’s disconnection’s right
To make you feel this way
And It makes you want to fight

Heard it on the radio
Watched it on tv
All over the newspaper
And the CBC
A really big idea
And it didn’t come for free
We’ve killed ourselves to get it
Static democracy

Copyright 2004 Ian Foster