Lyrically this isn't too far away from Blind Youth, but although ancient, it's not quite that old - it started life around the middle of 2004. Simon took it away and built a song entirely out of Roland SH-101 samples before eventually breaking his own rules and throwing loads of other stuff at it.
We rewrote the bulk of it in early 2008, and it turned out pretty nicely, but we weren't completely sure it was strong enough to go on the album, so it became one of the b-sides to the first single instead.
The lyrics:
We live in a world
Where nothing is real
Can’t escape from this place
Where the truth is concealed
We do what we want
You couldn’t care less
We’ll do anything
To keep up with the rest
We’re the broken generation
No ideas or inspiration
So this is our moment
We live for the day
We’re always the only ones
With something to say
Try anything once
Who cares what it does?
Tomorrow will come
If we don’t all die first
We're the broken generation
But we're you're hope and your salvation
It’s kill or be killed
On the mean streets for us
We always protest
So you’ll listen for once
We’re the broken generation
No ideas or inspiration
We're the broken generation
But we're you're hope and your salvation
(R. Martin / S. Martin)
