Kindom Lyrics

We're Low - We're Low - Mere Rabble
We Know, But At Our Plastic Power
The Mould At The Lordlings feet Will Grow
Into Palace And Church And Tower
Then Prostrate Fall - In The Rich Man's Hall
And Cringe At The Rich Man's Door
We're Not Too Low To Build The Wall
But Too Low To Tread The Floor
Down, Down We Go - We're So Very Low
To The Hell Of The Deep Sunk Mines

But We Gather The Proudest Gems That Glow
When The Crown Of A Despot Shine
And Whenever He Lacks - Upon Our Backs
Fresh Loads He Deigns To Lay:
We're Far Too Low To Vote The TAx, But Not Too Low To Pay
We're Low - We're Low - We're Very Very Low
Yet From Our Fingers Glide
The Silken Flow - And The Robes That Glow
Round The Limbs Of The Sons Of Pride
And What We Get - And What We Give - We Know
And We Know Our Share
We're Not Too Low The Cloth To Weave
But Too Low The Cloth To Wear!

(Noam Chomsky, additionally):

The Elites, Including The Educated Classes
Are Going Toward Reducing Moral Values
And Turning People Into Nothing
But Agents Of Production And Profit
So The Ideal Is You Try To Glue
Everybody In Front Of The Television Set
Where They Get Bombarded From Childhood
With Messages That Tell Them: You've Got
To Buy More, Your Human Value Depends
On The Number Of 'Commodities
(You've Got Piled Up)
On The Other Hand, If You Can't Use Them
As Tools Of Production, You Stick Them Into Jail
Or In The Slums, Or Let'em Prey On One Another
And Have Enough Cops Around To Control Them
(What You've Now Is Hopeless)
In Fact, It's Striking That About 75%
Of The Popularity Thinks That The Future
Is Going To Be Worse Than The Past
That Their Children Won't Live As Well As They Will
That's The First Time In The History
Of Industrial Society That This Has Happened
Except For During Temporaray Things Like War