secret police

Singer:automatic, the

touching your skin is a victory

a revolution of hearts and minds

when does a movement become a regime?

when your spies with the smiling guys call in the secret police

call in the secret police

what happened to the vision we had?

this silence is a strangled cry

the freedom to say whatever we like

replaced with a recital of lines

when the rot sets in

miss-dressed in suspicion

and to caress now a strange hand in the night

the manifesto we prize with secrets and lies

a state of fear

a cold war

call in the secret police

what happened to the vision we had?

this silence is a strangled cry

the freedom to say whatever we like

replaced with a recital of lines

what happened to the vision we had?

this silence is a strangled cry

the freedom to say whatever we like

replaced with a recital of lines

don't make me disappear i have not told the line

don't make me disappear i have not told the line

don't make me disappear i have not told the line

it doesn't have to get like this

it doesn't have to get like this

call in the secret police

call in the secret police

what happened to the vision we had?

this silence is a strangled cry

the freedom to say whatever we like

replaced with a recital of lines

what happened to the vision we had?

this silence is a strangled cry

the freedom to say whatever we like

replaced with a recital of lines

Lyric Context: secret police - automatic, the