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Did you know they have a plan to outlaw beauty?
It’s gonna be a crime to look too good
It isn’t fair they say so do your duty
Be ugly and improve your neighbourhood
Mr Huxley thought that he was only dreaming
Making up this stuff to sell a book
Well the truth is they’re already scheming
To hang the whole damned world upon a hook
We’re living in the age of global gridlock
We’re living in the age of virtual sex
In the age of chastity without a padlock
In the age of generation X
Welcome,
welcome boys and girls
Welcome to the brave new world
Do you long to end your spiritual confusion?
Do you long for something more than daily bread?
The scientists can prove it’s all delusion
You cannot have a soul if God is dead
Put your faith in bonds and not in praying
In your credit rating not your karma score
The future rests on everybody shopping
And then everybody shopping even more
We’re living in the age of broken morals
Where your future is genetically controlled
World peace is gonna end your private quarrels
But the future’s mortgaged, and the hedge fund sold
Welcome, welcome boys and girls
Welcome to the brave new world
They’ve solved the riddle of the Tower of Babel
Universal language now exists
No one but the shamans are enabled
They’re doing binary in
Java script
They sent a spaceship out in search of Heaven
They thought they’d find their way by GPS
Apparently it’s flat at the horizon
Rocket man has fallen off the edge
We’re living in the age of total wisdom
Everything you need to know is on the net
But love and justice in our solar system
Well the geniuses haven’t found that yet
Welcome, welcome boys and girls
Welcome to the brave new world
Create your child by genetic planning
Soul transplants will shortly be obtained
Prosthetic genitalia are in fashion
Or you can choose to have somebody else’s brain
Your DNA is waiting to accuse you
The food you eat is chemically stacked
They’re creating it in test tubes to confuse you
If your body has a virus - you’ve been hacked
We’re living in the age of no opinions
Of credit-driven debt prosperity
The only skill a politician’s needing
Is the ability to fake sincerity
Welcome, welcome boys and girls
Welcome to the brave new world
You think you’re thinking your own thoughts in freedom
Perhaps you’d better not explore too deep
The thoughts you have are only cause we need them
Conformity’s induced while you’re asleep
Whatever happened to the noble savage?
He’s watching Superbowl on Fox TV
While the poor in Africa are being ravaged
He’s getting pizza on home delivery
We’re living in the age of Facebook faeces
We’re living in the age of tweet tweet tweet
We’re intelligent as life-form not as species
The noble savage is now processed meat
Welcome, welcome boys and girls
Welcome to the brave new world
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Words and music by David Prashker
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