Sticky Planet Words and music by Paul Snyders I feel as if I hadn't had a dream in months I need to fly above this sticky planet And feel some distance from the game I know I haven't always been this way before but if you asked I couldn't tell you If it's been days or weeks or years I go about my business like a man possessed As by a spirit that is bored and stressed But just because it knows that time is short I think that since I'm never coming back this way I'm going to pile up all my baggage Give the collection all away All that is needed is for good people to do something You can't convince me that I've got a duty To turn my hours into pennies The best laid plans gang aft aglae You know it isn't easy trying to measure up When somehow you just can't remember The crazy shit they use for rulers You said you couldn't meet me at the party But then we know the party's over And it should come as no surprise That when we went with individual defence We sacrificed collective progress That happens when you close your eyes I thought that I was being paranoid again Because it seems for my whole lifetime The jobs were stupid, pay was crap And now I find that it was all deliberate The ministry of unemployment Considers nine percent too low "Oh no, We might just give the workers dignity And if they were to get to thinking Their work was valuable to all Well then, we might see confidence emerging And make our wealthy buddies nervous Because their power's bound to fall" Well it's time for us to show we can be bothered 'Cause after all we've all been pampered Our cut from pillage of the world So now it's finally time to pay the piper If we don't stand up for humanity We won't be welcome on the next big ride Until we show that we are for the people And that we can renounce our cheap indulgence We'll all be shilling for the man But then it isn't really hard to change it all We just decide that all our sacred walls Are less important than our bonds In time we're going to learn it all the hard way How very easy we all had it When there was so much more to waste Why not approach the coming of a new world At least attempting to help make it A world you wouldn't want to wipe away and start from scratch All that is needed is for good people to do something You know we've got it in us, we don't need to go marching off cliffs How do you do duo with me so very well As if by magic you can somehow tell Our lives are just a single story In case I never get to say it all again The damnedest curse is that with all the pain I wouldn't dare to change a day All that is needed is for good people to do something You know we've got it in us, we don't need to go marching off cliffs
