The New Dark Age

The day they closed ol' Danny's down I shed a tear for my hometown The place, the folks, were gone for good Like peeling paint on crumbling wood But the golden age is just a dream It's fading quickly down the stream You can't go back there's no return Unless the future you should burn You can't stop the world from spinning 'round You could unleash Hell here on the ground Who are they then behind the scenes That possess the ways and means To bend their subjects to their will To rob, and rape, and mail, and kill To apply foot to the neck To laugh about the fatal wreck To inspire fear and incite rage And bring to life the new dark age? Oh, the new dark age Oh, the same old cage So you say someone has ruined the dream But your neighbor didn't skim the cream He may not think the same it's true But he's just as fucking poor as you Now that ought to tell you quite a lot About who is who and who's got what They pick the players and set the stage And profit from the new dark age Oh, the new dark age Oh, the same old cage It's a new dark age Nothing you can do it's a new dark age Nothing you can say it's the same old cage The same old cage