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In the not very distant future

When everything will be free

There won't be any cute secrets

Let alone any novelty

You can say anything you want to

In your fetching cloak of anonymity

Are you feeling out of breath now

In your desperate pursuit of infamy


Two lovers rocking up and down

In an elevator 15 minutes later

They'll make a killing in the market

They know how to work it on that closed circuit

My my it's a terrible disgrace

You find these days that there's no hiding place


How proud you are

You got the knack of howling in a vacuum

Whatever I said about you

I didn't say it behind your back

I paid for my immortal sins

I know the enemy within you

As it seems these days there is no hiding place


Next time someone wants to hurt you

Or set alight your effigy

Don't call on me to help you out

Don't come crying to me for sympathy

You stay there with your ??? and scratches

While I summon up the red machine

I'll be handing somebody matches

And carrying a can of kerosene


Walk up to me and see what you said

Let's see how brave you are when I'm about this far

You sit in judgement and bitch

Well baby that's rich

You're nothing but a snitch


My my it's a terrible disgrace

My my it's a terrible disgrace

My my it's a terrible disgrace

You find these days that there's no hiding place