Freeze Up (2007 Remaster)

Empty factories to the east and all our waste

The shape of things that came shows on the broken worker's face

To the West, you'll find our silicon promised land

Where machines replace our minds for systematic profit plans

The course of human progress staggers like a drunk

Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt

I look for optimism, but I just don't know

Its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows

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 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 fluorescent 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 'cause 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 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 shelter, 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 a freeze up coming)

There's a freeze up coming