I need reaction, satisfaction
I need a backlash to this whitewash
I want infernal devices
I want to feel like there's a crisis

I want to kick down institutions
I want earthly retribution
I want infernal devices
to go and cause some kind of crisis

Where are they when we need them most?
We're not even close
I just shake my head and say
What can I do today?

Up in Whitehall and down to Knightsbridge
there's a war on and we're invited
we're in the bar and they're in the library
the bombs don't work but at least they're trying

There's too much talk and tea and biscuits
we'd make a stand but why would we risk it
I want infernal devices
to go and cause some kind of crisis

Where are they when we need them most?
We're not even close
I just shake my head and say
What can I do today?