Grandmothers Footsteps Songtext

von New Model Army

Come with me my little innocents
There's a game that we can play
See how much we can change your world
While you look the other way
Turn around as if to see
If you can catch us cheat
And all you'll find are shining presents
Laid down at your feet . . .
Take the bait . . .

Television is flash and Coke is nice
And you can have the rest
Dream those dreams you've always had
Of wealth and power and sex
We'll run your mines, your factories
And we'll take our little toll
And you can have these missiles too
While we maintain control

Ch:
Creeping, creeping footsteps around the world
While they promise us
Everything we've ever wanted

Hush now, don't you cry
Don't you realize your crime . .

Like lambs go to the slaughterhouse
We know our rights from wrongs
But we go down to the shopping mall
With 30 silver coins
And somewhere out in South America
Where the forests lie in ruin
They shout - we'd better get these natives some clothes
Because their videos are coming in soon . .