Born In Captivity Lyrics - T Bone Burnett

Born in captivity 

Born in captivity 

Born in captivity 

We're all born in captivity 

Born in captivity 

They make you stand in line for the first grade 

They make you kneel in hall to the air raid 

They say the saucer's coming any day 

To take you and all your friends away 

But thirty times it never comes 

And still the natives beat the drums 

And we're born in captivity 

We're all born in captivity 

Yes, we're born in captivity 

Cossack children of the bourgeoisie 

And they burn their images in your brain 

And tell you what is valuable 

Till it all looks pretty much the same 

And you are totally malleable 

And it works like magic on everyone 

'Cause the camera's mightier than the cannon