Citizen Fish - Heard It All Before lyrics

I had writer's block I was put in the dock By critics of lyrics said it had to stop The time to whine had gone tick-tock Too much too long and over the top Too much too soon? Too little too late? It was 'the same old tunes' and they 'started to grate' Mere speech balloons this was never a debate Why you still looking for the sell-by-date? I'm feeling the cost of thinking It's all been said before Something got lost You knew it already Or just got bored With all this social observation Too much too soon? Too little too late? Any old excuse to disengage 'Don't get so mad' - 'We get tired of hearing it' - Have you seen where this picture fits? Into the frame of parenthood Sometime when it was understood That parents knew 'nothing' and couldn't 'relate' Now I'm hearing the same from people my age And into the frame of teachers and school Who always knew more but kept to the rules Teaching the same as they'd been taught before Never updating, no inner thoughts And into the frame of governments Who demonise our common sense Distort our real experience Democracy bows to its own pretention Its in your reflection Attention span at closing time? Don't talk politics! Make it rhyme! And catch the feet to dance a yard But politics makes us think too hard! The way we follow or lead or decide To co-operate or just stand aside The way we say 'What you doing today?' Or couldn't give a sh** how we work and play Is politics What we each decide Is politics To be true or lies Is politics It's time to decide Whether how we live (how we live) is our own free will (own free will) Are we running our lives? Or are we standing still?