Slaves, Replacement Technology and the Neutron Bomb

Promises thru the ages
Utopia to come
Keep on working for us
We’ll let you have some

Soon we’ll have machinery
On which you can resign
Androids that make androids
That fish, farm, build and mine

And all the populations
In every place in every land
Will never have to work again
Will never have to stand

At least that’s what they tell you
Those bastards on the hills
The ones that own the shelters
The ones with light that kills

And so they keep on sayin’
Utopia for everyone
And keep on doing our dirty work
Diggin’ up the sun

But now they’ve got their clean bombs
That kill but don’t hurt steel
And once they’ve got those robots
That light’s the last you’ll feel

Because YOU’R at ground zero
And that’s just where you’ll lay
’cause in giving them your skills and labour
You’re handing your lives away

Instrumental

And when the earths been sterilised
And the radiation fades away
They’ll come back out to the sunlight
And give Their kids the new day

Don’t call me too presumptuous
At least not to my face
’cause from where they see it baby
It’s called “winning the human race”

So keep on toiling as they
For that Techno-breakthrough bait
They’ve held their forts for centuries
Millennium can wait, millennium can wait
Millennium can wait, millennium can wait.

Written by Billie Reid.