Culture The Everyman Lyrics

I'll be the self determined damned
Before the blessed lump of clay
I'll be the self reliant idiot
Before the learned led astray

I'll be the unholy over reactor
Before the smiling unaffected
I'll be the laughing-stock revolutionary
Before the dignified slave

I demand solidarity
This is a call to arms
But you refuse to grow
We've lost faith in overthrow

In the power to resist
In the strength to assist
In the importance of the self Open your eyes
Heteronome
Our mother freedom
Is calling us home to civility

You will die
The everyman

And although you will die
I will simply end
Call me status-quomophobic
But I'm not dazzled by your order
I'm not impressed by amenities
I will be governed internally

You will die
The everyman

And although you will die
I will simply end

And although you will die
I will go and try