Noisy and Annoying

When we’re hit just where it hurts and things don’t go as we like
They want us to lie back, tell us “zip your lips, sit tight”
But since when was it a crime to express your mind?
Since when did we resign to a power strike?
Is 1998 slipping into the satin night?

But we’re getting louder
And stronger
We’re vexing
So they’re flexing all of their power
We’re noisy and annoying
Cos it’s our voices they’re destroying

It’s a bully’s push and shove, it’s back to school it seems
But since when have classroom snubs made it in to policy?
Even someone who right now is content with everything
Can see beyond today and beyond the spring
It’s scary now to dwell on what the future might bring

Cos we’re getting louder
And stronger
We’re vexing
So they’re flexing all of their power
We’re noisy and annoying
Cos it’s our voices they’re destroying
Trapping us in ambiguities to be misused
Are those who chase their dreams through a power abuse

This won’t impose one view upon the rest
It protects them all and gives a means for them to be expressed
It won’t exclude ideas at either end
So thanks for making enemies urgent friends

Cos we’re getting louder
And stronger
We’re vexing
So they’re flexing all of their power
We’re noisy and annoying
Cos it’s our voices they’re destroying
Cos we’re getting louder
And stronger
We’re vexing
So they’re flexing all of their power
We’re noisy and annoying
Cos it’s our voices they’re destroying