In Sparrow Park

Standing high in Sparrow Park watching people below
Seeing them scurry, rush, run, old, young, friend and foe
Dashing about, heads down, don't slow down, hey, let's go!
Escape to the great tomorrow, flee from all your woes
Destroy the unbidden thought in case it lays you low
Cram your mind with useless things you don't even need to know
Obliterate each moment, forbidding doubt to grow
Consume more and more each day, nothing you forego
Television, entertainment, images are shown
Half-thoughts, slogans, half-digested, sanity lies prone
Radio, magazines, computer screens, my mind is blown
Celebrities more real than people that you know
Conformity, normality, like cannabis is grown
You don't believe your eyes, you believe what you are shown
Dog eats dog, consume each other, pick each other's bones
Each man and woman has a boss, does what they are told
Bosses we must obey, submissive, keep your eyes low
Success is sucking up, in obedience we must grow
And if you're good, it's not fair, never boast and crow
Mediocrity, conformity, shoved right down our throats
And when mind and body cave in, keep talking on the phone!
Buy cars, sex, fun, film, pseudo-travel, sun, time to go!
Shuffle about, follow the crowd, like some zombie show
From west to east, north to south, the sea of sewage flows
Solidarity is something together we must sow
Community, reality is what we need to know
To State Power, tyranny, slavery, we must say no!
Brothers and sisters, united we say hope!