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You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
Funny handshakes. insider dealing
Et in arcadia. arcadia ego
Backhanders and salamanders
A powerhouse that is morally
Mechula

I'm sorry democracy is changing
I'm sorry democracy is changing

I'm not a slogan or a badge
Or a cross in the ballot box
Neither values or objectives
You do not represent my deepest
Thoughts and wishes
Education in obsolete skills
Stereotyping and media projection
Industrial psychologists
Plan a campaign that is financed by
Big business

You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
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Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

So anyway, this is about how 'democracy' is actually no choice at all, because whichever colour the party, they represent big business.

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

You have a choice, we are your voice Red, blue or yellow. We will ridicule away the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never even get a referendum anyway) Funny handshakes. insider dealing Et in arcadia. arcadia ego Backhanders and salamanders A powerhouse that is morally Mechula

I'm sorry democracy is changing I'm sorry democracy is changing

I'm not a slogan or a badge Or a cross in the ballot box Neither values or objectives You do not represent my deepest Thoughts and wishes Education in obsolete skills Stereotyping and media projection Industrial psychologists Plan a campaign that is financed by Big business

You have a choice, we are your voice Red, blue or yellow. We will ridicule the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never even get a referendum anyway)

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

Dude, what a good, heavy song. I rock out to this one all the time...I guess nobody else likes it though...:-(

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

"Et in Arcadia ego" is a Latin phrase that most famously appears as the title of two paintings by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). The phrase is a memento mori, which is usually interpreted to mean "I am also in Arcadia" or "I am even in Arcadia", as if spoken by personified Death

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

i love this track

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

You have a choice, we are your voice Red, blue or yellow. We will ridicule away the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never even get a referendum anyway) Funny handshakes. insider dealing Et in arcadia. arcadia ego Backhanders and salamanders A powerhouse that is morally Mechula

I'm sorry democracy is changing I'm sorry democracy is changing

I'm not a slogan or a badge Or a cross in the ballot box Neither values or objectives You do not represent my deepest Thoughts and wishes Education in obsolete skills Stereotyping and media projection Industrial psychologists Plan a campaign that is financed by Big business

You have a choice, we are your voice Red, blue or yellow. We will ridicule the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never even get a referendum anyway)

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

It's "ridicule the green"

There is no 'away'

What is Mechula? Closest thing I can find is a reference to a Hamas suicide bombing in 1995. Word seems incredibly out of place in the lyrics though.

Mechula is a Hebrew term for bankrupt so morally mechula is morally bankrupt...

Et in arcadia. arcadia ego 'has been highly influential in the history of art and more recently has been associated with the pseudohistory of the Priory of Sion' '(Priory of Sion perceived as a prestigious esoteric Christian chivalric order, whose members would be people of influence in the fields of finance, politics and philosophy, devoted to installing the "Grand Monarch")'

ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion

Mechula means bankrupt in Hebrew. Busted, broke.

Cover art for Democracy lyrics by Killing Joke

Yiddish word for "rotten" or some form of it Mechula: broke, bankrupt, ruined, ferkakt. OR, you could substitute tuchus for mechula

 
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