T-Bone Burnett - Born In Captivity lyrics

Born in captivity

Born in captivity

Born in captivity

We're all born in captivity

Born in captivity

They make you stand in line for the first grade

They make you kneel in hall to the air raid

They say the saucer's coming any day

To take you and all your friends away

But thirty times it never comes

And still the natives beat the drums

And we're born in captivity

We're all born in captivity

Cossack children of the bourgeoisie

And they burn their images in your brain

And tell you what is valuable

Till it all looks pretty much the same

And you are totally malleable

And it works like magic on everyone

'Cause the camera's mightier than the cannon

And we're born in captivity

We're all born in captivity

And we're born in captivity

Cossack children of the bourgeoisie

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