I Abstain - Napalm Death

I abstain

Summon my pride

What pride behind your blinkered eyes?

Your vigilance is shit

The lads together, you fall

Smug complacency

Notions of reserving the right

To think with your fists

I abstain from this mundane apathy

Commited to «All for red, white and blue»

In effect you’re fighting for what’s really fighting you

Grit those teeth, push out those chests

Tears only for the flag

Always the brave patriot as you slip to second class

But you stand stead fast

People are not subjects

Why should the few get more respect?

Open your eyes!

Imperialism feeds off you

Not patrons but patronised

Open your eyes!

They’re shaping you — you’re trapped with 'pomp and

Circumstance'

Lose your discretion

Sodom, you’ll not fall from grace

Endorse their rhetoric

You fade, they prosper

I abstain!

Don’t be a colonial slave

Don’t substantiate the act