Hoax - An Eye For An Eye

Probably the best rock song you've never heard of! By French group Hoax from their 1991 album Ego Eater. --- Watching TV news, well what can you expect? When you look around you it doesnt seem to affect Idle talkers with their emphatic speeches Promise paradise with the worst honeyed smiles Oh please! Everybody knows that in our own country Homeless people, suffering and misery Pain and decay everywhere, what a sight! All is not bright! You cant imagine how such a life could be Theyve started to dehumanise humanity As the wretched families in despair Imploring for help in the slums But who is aware? The gap is becoming wider inexorable Falled empire soon to sink into the sea Lets burn the green god and crash its statues down Take our own! We'd better stop to moan lament and cry Straighten our backs, keep the head high Dont let the tears of shame stand in your eye Cos every day we're so many left to die And the pigs in suits have the impudence to lie So just give them an eye for an eye! Well you know cos you dont look like everyone Cos your hair is red, cos your face is brown Steamroller system grinds on but you shout so loud That Im sure you'll never enter into the mould Your legitimate anger grows up day by day As they crush you, try to blow you away But there's still a glimmer of pride in your eye That can't die! The only thing their shit money can't buy Is our dignity so dont be so shy FIGHT! Give them an eye for an eye Right now! Scorn and hypocrisy rule the world today Letting the silent majority waste away It wont stay like this for many more years The rich have become richer on our blood and fear Now! Its time to run out and raise the fist of fury We wont show remorse or any kind of pity Come on fat cowards, start to shiver and hide We're full of might! We'd better stop to moan, lament and cry Straighten the backs keep the head high Dont let the tear of shame stand in your eye The only thing their shit money cant buy Is our dignity so dont be so shy FIGHT! Give them an eye for an eye! NOW!