Dead Can Dance - Indoctrination (A Design For Living) Lyrics






In times of great vexation
When one must choose between what's right and wrong
Freedom so they say
Amounts to the choices you have made

Through all the arbitrary
Rationale concerning liberty
Freedom I must say
Exists within unconditioned minds

Reason has come of age

How can you be satisfied with things the way they are
When all that surrounds us now and so much more
Remains inside the keeper's dark embrace?

The insatiable thirst for power has made
Idols out of mortals, gods into clay
Soldiers into heroes, children into slaves
All damned desires, their hopes betrayed

Who will suffer the laws
That state can decide
Your child's education
Unless you pay the price?

Who will suffer the laws?
Who will suffer their minds?
Who will suffer their words?
Who will suffer their designs?

Who will suffer the laws?
Who will suffer their minds?
Who will suffer their words?
Who will suffer their designs?





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  1. b.... ....

    Profound and perfect

  2. J.... R....

    *Kill the Dragons*
    Member: Mathematical Association of America, Society for Creative Anachronism Pamphlet Member, Executed for Transmutation Society, Home Metalsmith's Apartment Club, German Erasmus Nobility Club, Pythagoras Monad Society, Sumerian Beer Knot Mischief, Wise Man Disinformation Occults, Vampire Research Barber/Surgery Club, Behavioral Health is not Psychiatry, Question Theocracy, Department of Energy Bomb Supporter, Opportunity Doesn't Knock...10/28/19, Eli Whitney Day!

  3. H.... ....

    2:22 :O

  4. A.... ....

    just great!

  5. A.... S....

    I prefer the greater low end in the original non remastered version. This version is too "bright" sounding.

    A.... S....

    @splatinum listen to the version on YT with the spanish subtitles, or the one with the spiral design spinning in the video. Both of those use the original audio.

  6. H.... D....

    can't wait to hear this live in a few days

  7. A.... S....

    Every politician should have to listen to this and read the lyrics on paper before taking office.

  8. K.... B....

    My fav track by DCD from my fav album.
    Saw them perform it live in 1987 .
    This period was the best time of the band IMO (85/90)

  9. R.... J....

    Reflecting on "Independence Day" here in the U.S., this song came to mind. My country is collapsing under the weight of cheap thrills, sick obsessions, and proud ignorance. Songs, like this one, that are Art, not just entertainment, never get "old" or "out of date." Truth changes its clothes, but never its nature.

    R.... J....

    That's the spirit!! :D Where are we going....and why am I in this handbasket?

  10. C.... ....

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  11. C.... S....

    This song speaks much truth in 2017

  12. C.... D....

    The insatiable thirst for power has made
    Idols out of mortals
    Gods into clay
    Soldiers into heroes
    Children into slaves

    C.... D....

    miraculous lyrics... so poetically true in this year of 2017

  13. K.... N....

    This song is profound.

    K.... N....

    todas las canciones de dead can dance son profundas.

  14. J.... 3....

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤