The Beat(en) Generation Lyrics - Singles - The The

When you cast your eyes upon the skylines 

Of this once proud nation 

Can you sense the fear and the hatred 

Growing in the hearts of its population 

And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced 

By the greedy hands of politics and half truths 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Open your eyes, open your imagination 

We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes 

And hypnotized by the satellites 

Into believing what is good and what is right 

You may be worshiping the temples of mammon 

Or lost in the prisons of religion 

But can you still walk back to happiness 

When you've nowhere left to run? 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Open your eyes, open your imagination 

And if they send in the special police 

To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace 

Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues 

When they tell us justice is being done 

And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information 

The beaten generation, the beaten generation 

Open your eyes, open your imagination