The end of the line for the whole human race
Keeps on approaching with increasing haste
As the president turns with a smile on his face
Saying I’m on the side of the people
He says I’m on the side of the people
Crime’s on the up as detection rates fall
There’s faces of victims on all of our walls
To the crack of a whip the commissioner crawls
Saying I’m on the side of the people
He says I’m on the side of the people
Way up in parliament there's shouts and there's jeers
Calls for more whiskey, pay rises and beers
As the homeless lie starving
The Prime Minister sneers
saying we’re on the side of the people
He says we’re on the side of the people
Let’s all join hands and say prayers for the d**d
better if you helped out the living instead
when the church needs more money it just bows its head
and says we’re on the side of the people
It says we’re on the side of the people
Man’s dug a hole from which he can’t get out
All he can do now is look up and shout
And from their ivory towers the powerful look out
Saying we’re on the side of the people
They say we’re on the side of the people
Ladies and gentlemen I’m afraid I’ve bad news
There’s just three more minutes before the missiles breakthrough
But from here in my bunker I’d like to thank you
and say I’m on the side of the people
