Jades - Confined Congragation lyrics

[chas_kit]

Please help me with these intriguing lyrics! This is as much as I can make out:

I had no back ??? ... machine (?)
They ruled me out because I lacked their thing (?),
Their group is nothing but a gang of thieves,
They use you when you …(?) their own needs

They've got a confined congregation,
With all the rules and stipulations,
Along with inside information,
And they're for more segregation.

Nothing else will do for them except the best,
Of course they classify themselves with all the rest,
Humble is a common word they don't know,
They criticize the others (elders?) after every show.

They've got a confined congregation,
With all the rules and stipulations,
Along with inside information,
And they're for more segregation.

Repeat first verse

 

[tymespan]

I think the first lines are:
I had no background and they call it a shame
They ruled me out because I lack their fame

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

I was listening to this recently on Mark's hi-fi; wish I'd taken more notice of the lyrics at the time. Now, listening to it on my laptop, I hear it as "formal segregation" in the first refrain, and "foremost eduction" in the 2nd and last refrain. The biggest mystery for me though is how this song got less than 10 in TBM.

 

[bosshoss]

It sounds like "they use you when you die for their own needs". Doesn't make much sense though.
Pretty sure it's "others" not "elders".

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

ditto on "others"