Is This The Life We Really Want? [explicit] Lyrics - Roger Waters

So, as an example, you're CNN 

I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad 

I won, I won 

And the other thing, chaos, there's zero chaos 

We are running, this is a fine-tuned mach 

The goose has gotten fat 

On caviar in fancy bars 

And subprime loans 

And broken homes 

Is this the life, the holy grail? 

It's not enough that we succeed 

We still need others to fail 

Fear, fear drives the mills of modern man 

Fear keeps us all in line 

Fear of all those foreigners 

Fear of all their crimes 

Is this the life we really want? (want, want, want, want) 

It surely must be so 

For this is a democracy and what we all say goes 

And every time a student is run over by a tank 

And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank 

Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale 

And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail 

Every time a young girl's life is casually spent 

And every time a nincompoop becomes the president 

Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys 

And every time that Greenland falls in the fucking sea is because 

All of us, the blacks and whites 

Chicanos, Asians, every type of ethnic group 

Even folks from Guadeloupe, the old, the young 

Toothless hags, super models, actors, fags, bleeding hearts 

Football stars, men in bars, washerwomen, tailors, tarts 

Grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts 

Friends, relations, homeless tramps 

Clerics, truckers, cleaning ladies 

Ants, maybe not ants 

Why not ants? 

Well because it's true 

The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between 

The pain that other people feel 

And well, for instance, cutting leaves 

Or crawling across windowsills in search of open treacle tins 

So, like the ants, are we just dumb? 

Is that why we don't feel or see? 

Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?