Lived Through This Before

They are serving killer salad on the shores of the Baltic Any moment now they'll impose martial law You can give them beer and sausages, bread and circuses But only a fool would go near the coleslaw You look sad, you look broken But don't worry some of us have lived through this before I was picking out the raisins from a bowl of muesli There were noises outside, I heard a knock on the door I put down the spoon, went out with my hands up I was glad I wouldn't have to run anymore You look sad, you look broken But don't worry some of us have lived through this I wondered what had happened to my neighbours as we passed But I could smell the sleep from beneath their doors I was cuffed and quizzed in a basement cell, they said Don't pretend you're fresh off the boat Any fool can tell you what's happening here You can smell it in the air, it gets caught in the back of your throat It's in the water, in the flu jabs, in the fur on the mangy urban fox It's in the chemtrails, the comet vapours On the lettuce leaves coming in off the docks You look sad, you look broken But don't worry some of us have lived through this