Ignoreland - R.E.M.

These bastards stole their power from

The victims of the us v. them years

Wrecking all things virtuous and true

The undermining social democratic

Downhill slide into abysmal

Lost lamb off the precipice into

The trickle down run-off pool

They hypnotized the summer

Marched into the capital

Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready

Heartless and labeled, super U.S. citizen, super achiever

Mega ultra power dosing, relax, defense, defense, defense, defense

Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

The information nation took

Their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons

'92 too, too

How to be what you can be

Jump jam junking your energies

How to walk in dignity

With throw-up on your shoes

They amplified the autumn

Calculate the capital

Up the republic my skinny ass, TV tells a million lies

The paper’s terrified to report, anything that isn’t handed

On a presidential spoon, I’m just profoundly frustrated

By all this, so fuck you, man

(Fuck 'em)

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

If they weren’t there we would have created them

Maybe, it is true

But I’m resentful all the same

Someone’s got to take the blame

I know that this is vitriol

No solution, spleen-venting

But I feel better having screamed

Don’t you?

They desecrate the winter

Capital collateral

Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready

Heartless and labeled, super U.S. citizen, super achiever

Mega ultra power dosing, relax, defense, defense, defense, defense

Yeah, yeah, yeah

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah) Ignoreland

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

(I didn’t do the revolution, thank you)