Poster Children - 21st Century lyrics

Watching television in an electronic prison Waiting for the darkness to fall Homegrown terrorism, one nation in division And the talk shows are to blame for it all The ATF and FBI make preparations to invade The bill of rights disintegrates because freedom just gets in the way The crime rate is alarming, the citizens are arming Against uncommon enemies A fourth world revolution, invisible pollution In the 21st Century 21st Century In the 21st Century In the 21st Century The homeless were a nuisance to the five o'clock commuters So they were erased from the streets Apocalyptic rumors are consumed by the consumers There's a new disease every week The nightly news has no more room for truth inside the narrowcast The markets slip, a panic hits as a fever spreads across the land Genetic engineering, one step from ethnic cleansing Copyright your DNA Moral indiscretions, unnatural selection In the 21st Century Watch the politicians as they jockey for position In the endless race of the rats All the kids are listening to some junky musician As the empire shows signs of collapse The upper crust, the one percent have run off with all the cash Don't pay the bills, forget the rent, it's the beginning of the end The book of revelations, the cult of information The power of prophecy You don't need a crystal ball to track the rise and fall Of the 21st Century 21st Century In the 21st Century In the 21st Century In the 21st Century In the 21st Century I'm the 21st Century I'm the 21st Century I'm the 21st Century