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All We Make Is Entertainment Lyrics
I'm no longer preaching to the converted
That congregation has long ago deserted
And we discovered was even more despair
But we learned how to cope, we learnt now not to care
And the sun will still keep rising
Always deflecting, always disguising
Was there ever another place
Did we ever really exist?
All we make is entertainment
A sad indictment of what we're good at
We're all part of the grand delusion
We made so much and we let it all crumble
To safeguard our rights to make us more human
Oh this country is but an empty shell
A clearing house for heaven, a clearing house for hell
And the sun will still keep rising
Always deflecting, always disguising
Was there ever another place
Did we ever really exist?
All we make is entertainment
It's so damn easy, and inescapable
"We're so post-modern, We're so post-everything"
All we make is entertainment
An end to hope and civilisation
A simple way to seek perfection
Please don't tell the nation of being exposed
It only confirms what we already know
Pointless jobs just lead to pointless lives
Breaking up our bones, breaking up our minds
That congregation has long ago deserted
But we learned how to cope, we learnt now not to care
Always deflecting, always disguising
Was there ever another place
Did we ever really exist?
A sad indictment of what we're good at
We're all part of the grand delusion
To safeguard our rights to make us more human
Oh this country is but an empty shell
A clearing house for heaven, a clearing house for hell
Always deflecting, always disguising
Was there ever another place
Did we ever really exist?
It's so damn easy, and inescapable
"We're so post-modern, We're so post-everything"
An end to hope and civilisation
A simple way to seek perfection
It only confirms what we already know
Pointless jobs just lead to pointless lives
Breaking up our bones, breaking up our minds
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juanjo25 On Oct 27, 2010
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Great track from PFAYM. Apparently the 'get it made overseas cheaper' mentality has lead to massively declining British industries which has lead to mass unemployment and skills shortages. The one flourishing industry - making bad reality talent shows etc...
It sounds kind of like the band's reflection on themselves- they used to be full of anger and attitude, barking out their culture and politics all over the paper, loving to be hated, whilst now they're just another rock band churning out entertainment for the masses- not the ideology, just music. It's like a statement of 'what went wrong?'
Although still vastly superior to anything else on the current market, I was quite disappointed in Postcards. Some brilliantly fun tracks like It's Not War, but overall not Manic-y enough. I know it was all 'one last shot at mass communication' and that they were trying to go for 'big radio hits with this one', but I mean seriously- a female backing choir?!
You can forget I said that. Postcards has grown on me considerably since then and it's now one of my favorites. And actually quite Manic-y when you look at the lyrics. Nicky's venom has just switched from politics to the internet.
You can forget I said that. Postcards has grown on me considerably since then and it's now one of my favorites. And actually quite Manic-y when you look at the lyrics. Nicky's venom has just switched from politics to the internet.
'If there is a kind of political centrepiece to the record, it's All We Make Is Entertainment. It's just a kind of selling off of Cadbury's. It sounds really mundane doesn't it, for a rock song? It's just the abandonment of any kind of pride of making anything, our lie to the fact that we, y'know, self-imploded and self-destructed the record industry as well, and like anything we've ever been good at, we're quite happy to sell-out and destroy it.'