The Culture of Resistance

[Verse 1]
Oh Jeremy, there will be no reward for your persistence
For the cancer it has riddled me, the tumor is malignant
And I've lost all of the faculties I need to judge the distance
Between the nature of the beast and the culture of resistance

Oh Jeremy, mendacity is the perfume of your peers
Ideology is bankrupt, it is decades in arrears
And there is no manifesto, no, just the catalyst of fear
For an imperial monopoly as it slowly disappears

[Chorus 1]
Oh but I
I--
I----
I want to, believe too
To be swept along when the feeling is strong
But I----
I just pretend to care, hungover in my underwear

[Bridge]
Oh Jeremy, society's been digging its own grave
There'll be no one left to save, just a long slow process of decay

[Verse 2]
Oh Jeremy, the first time it was bound to be explosive
When the ecstasy took full effect in floods of serotonin
And you spoke of liberation, while I paid my dues to Onan
For though my brother, he lay slain, there was nothing that I owed him

Oh Jeremy I'm sick with the whitest of afflictions
I am moved beyond sincerity, I've lost all my convictions
I am cloaked in pseudo-literary notions of existence
And there is no room for cowards in the culture of resistance

[Chorus 2]
Oh but I
I--
I----
I want to, be there too
When the orchestra plays The Internationale
But I----
I'm just too cool to care, leather jacket and long hair

[Bridge 2]
Oh Jeremy, society has gifted me a grave
Now all I have to do is wait for the long slow process of decay