As the second song on As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, “Bastards” takes any last trace of accessibility that this album may have had and throws it off a cliff. Beginning with a short continuation of the previous track “Passcivecation Program,” the song quickly shifts to an industrial sound...
Operation Passcivecation
Operation Passcivecation
Call
I call for retribution
Operation Passcivecation
Passcivecation program
I call for retribution
Operation
In the city of illusion
Cable-administered sedation
Don't let them see us, don’t tell them what we are doing
Think about it! (Red alert)
Think about it!
Think about it! (One, two, three, four)
Think about it!
Think about it! (This is a restricted area!)
Think about it!
Think a— (This is a restricted area!)
Think about it!
This is a restricted area!
Mr. Luce Getty Lee Rockafeller
Parasites
Bastards! Bastards!
Bastards! Bastards!
Think about it! ([?])
Think about it! (Think about it!)
Think about it! (Think about it!)
Think about it! (Think about it!)
Think about— (Think—)
Think a— (Think—)
Think— think— think— think—
Think about it!
[?] guided missiles
Think, think, think, think
We have medium-range heat-seeking guided missiles (Think about it!)
This is no picnic (Think about it!)
We will protect our families
Think about it!
Yours
You want Hassan
Freeze!
Freeze!
Freeze!
Freeze!
This is a restricted area!
This is a restricted area!
This is a restricted area!
Repeat, this is a restricted area!
Repeat—
Bastards! Bastards!
Don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing
You’re—
...then the right one will
With teeth of [?], fist of steel
If the left don't getcha, the right one will
Get down, down
The economics of genocide
[?]
Think about it!
Why don't I come over with the board and drink Coca-Cola
Boards and syndicates
Bastards! Bastards!
Brains of a hundred million more or less gooks went down the drain
Bastards! Bastards!
—ab m—, worms, intestinal parasites
Bastards! Bastards!
You're, you're bastards!
Of the all-powerful boards and syndicates
You're, you're bastards! Bastards!
You're—
Cartels of the earth? The great banking families of the world?
Bastards! Bastards! Bastards! Bastards! Bastards!
We watch and we wait
We watch and we wait
We watch and we wait
We watch and we wait
You’re, you’re bastards
They'll never try snatching a bone from the real dogs
Bastards was written by Mark Stewart.
Bastards was produced by Mark Stewart & Adrian Sherwood.