Songtext von Our History Will Be What We Make Of It

Our history will be what we make of it And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now And there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks They will there find recorded in black and white and in colour Evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, our mass media reflect this But unless we get up off our fat surpluses And recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us And history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us It may be that he human race is doomed never to learn from its mistakes We are the only animal on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each other For the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasons We know better but we do it again and again, in generation after generation It may be that our empire too is doomed like all those that have gone before it To continue to spill and waste its best blood on foreign soil No matter what we say or do in its place, or think, or believe, or have learned from history But, thank God for us.