Father my father, well what have you left for me?
What am I to make of this convoluted legacy?
You raised me, ingrained me
Led me to believe that
The world had some structure
A bedrock of honesty
With this naive outlook in mind
Imagine then my profound suprise
When my eyes were opened to the reality
A world built on half-truths and Christian hypocrisy
Where left hands are wrung to deplore all our poverties
While right hands dig shallow graves to bury the meek
What have we learned?
Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask
Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask
Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask
(Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask)
Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask
(Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask)
Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask
(Do as we say, not as we do)
Yeah, like the students
At the Sorbonne
In sixty-eight
I've got a conundrum
I and the letter
Of the law are agreed
But the spirit's not with us in working
Until "Everyone has everything they need"
I know what I must look like -
Some kind of revolutionary -
But I'm just trying to set some things straight
To salvage that honesty
Father, I've tried to follow you
(Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask)
In what you say and what you do
Father, I've always followed you
(Do as we say, not as we do and don't ask)
I'm everything you wanted me to be
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