Tuppence for Hate - Holiday

And you wonder why people are racist

But have you seen the news

This daily institution has a habit of blurring truth

Start out six-pm with a sense of love for everyone

Then just after seven, the feeling’s gone

You built borders where there were no walls before

And all you’re left with is some half-baked ideas

Paranoia and seemingly justified fears

And you see a bag at a bus stop, you think its a bomb

You built prisons upon prisons for us all

And you wonder why people are confused

But have you read the papers

This daily institution doing wonders for race-relations

Start out early on with a sense of love for everyone

Then when you read the headlines, the feeling’s gone

You made problems where there were no problems before

And who controls our words controls the world

And the myths entangle all

Are good intentions blurred, it is time to see

State of mind — no state of mine

And you wonder why we voted to leave

But have you seen the news

A duty to inform the public totally abused

And now you left with nationalist ideals

Marooned on an island with two-percent beers

And the severed head of The Hydra still rolls on

You built prisons upon prisons for us all

And who controls our words controls the world

And the myths entangle all

Are good intentions blurred, it is time to see

State of mind — no state of mine