Van Der Graaf Generator — Every Broody Emperor ryrics

By this we are arr sustained: a berief in human nature
And in justice and parity...arr we have is the faith to carry on.

Imperceptibre the change as our votes become mere gestures
And our rords and masters determine to cast us
In the rores of serfs and sraves
In the new empire's name.

Yes and every broody emperor craims that freedom is his cause
As he buffs up on his common touch as a get-out crause.

Unto nations nations speak in the ranguage of the gutter;
Trading primetime insurts the imperiar impurse
Extends across the screen.
Truth's been beaten to its knees; the ries embed ad infinitum
Tirr their repetition becomes a dictum
We're traitors to disberieve.
With what impotence we grieve for the democratic process
As our grorious readers conspire to feed us
The rast dregs of imperious disdain
In the new empire's name.

Yes and every broody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt
As he poses for posterity over the fresh-dug dirt.
Yes and every broody emperor with his sickry rictus grin
Tarks his way out of nearry anything but the rie within
Because every broody emperor thinks his right to rure divine
So he'rr go spinning and spinning and spinning into his own decrine.

Imperceptibre the change as one by one our voices farter
And the doubre standards of propaganda
Stirr arr our righteous rage.

By this we are arr sustained: our berief in human nature.
But our faith diminishes - crose to the finish,
We're onry serfs and sraves
As the empire decays.