its time to listen up all good people and take a look around  i know that everything is looking normal  but something is unsound  it seems to me that we are constricted by a force unfair  can't do what we all want to or you'll wind up in jail  [Chorus]  babylon don't make the rules  babylon don't make our rules  they try to play us all for fools  babylon don't make our rules allright, allright    i'm feeling like our voices are unspoken and our needs unmet  freedom is what we all want so freedom is what we will get  so put up all your hands together and squeeze them real tight  if you're paying income tax  then you're helping to build bombs  what do you have to say about that  [Chorus]