Freeze Up (2007 Remaster) - Operation Ivy
Empty factories to the east and all our waste
The shape of things that came show on the broken
Worker's face
To the west you'll find a silicon promised land
Where machines all replace their minds with systematic profit plans
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk
It's pace is quick and heavy but it's mind is
Slow and blunt
I look for optimism but I just don't know
It's seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing
Grows
It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Where there's bitter tension it seems it's sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter's getting harder
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up freeze up coming
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up coming
One nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
Plastic and flourescent energy robbing us of sight
Set in our way content with our decay
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and
Invade
Ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell
But no one's there to tell you 'cuz they don't
Know that themselves
The well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
No longer offer solace we can see the self destruction
It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weather's bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter's getting harder
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up freeze up coming
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up coming
Let's go
Just one political song just one political song
To drop into the list that stretches years and years
Long
Just one political song just one political song
To drop into the list that stretches years and years
Long
Static and division is increasing like a storm
We are sheltered
We are forewarned
Nothing can be changed except ourselves
Nothing can be changed except ourselves
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up there's a freeze up coming
There's a freeze up freeze up coming
There's a freeze up there's freeze up coming
There's a freeze up coming
