The Tiananmen Man Lyrics - The Politics Of Ecstacy - Nevermore

On june fifth, in the year of eighty-nine, 

he was unarmed with focused mind 

Deflance glared down the barrel of the gun pointed from a tank in tiananmen square 

And he stood there: 

To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave 

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan 

To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen 

Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them 

Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan 

Manipulate the media 

He used blind faith in the face of anarchy, 

the cybernetic rapture has begun to envelop me 

Freedom is the rush, adrenaline high, 

choice of the oppressed wiling to die 

Like a hostage the government holds your drug 

To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave 

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan 

To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen 

Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them 

Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan 

Manipulate the media 

His act was a cybernetic gesture 

His act was a cybernetic gesture 

He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan 

To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen 

Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them 

Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan 

Manipulate the media, manipulate the media 

Manipulate to control