Ever since the days we were living in the caves Some assumed leadership and other became slaves Brother against brother, Cain and Abel were both wrong At each other since the dawn of civilization We ran out of the darkness like dirty human haunts Into blazing enlightenment they call the Renaissance Dividing of the classes, breeding ignorance and hate Remember what you get when you amalgamate church and state Lest we forget Lest we forget Time waits for no-one, it's forever moving on Colonial development, employment of the gun Kings and queens and presidents and power-shifting schemes Ending in a blaze of bombs and artillery Lest we forget Lest we forget Here we're living now in what they call a modern world Documents are signed and the banners are unfurled A funny little people on a spinning little ball The higher up the ladder now, The further down you must fall Lest we forget Lest we forget Lest we forget Lest we forget Well, don't you ever forget Well, don't you ever forget So don't you ever forget So don't you ever forget