1. |
Panic
02:19
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I don’t want you to be hopeful
I want you to panic
Feel the fear I feel every day
I want you to act
Like you’re in a crisis
Act as if your house is on fire
CH
At the Final crossroads
Now’s the time to fight
I want you to act
Act as if your house is on fire
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2. |
Living A Lie
03:10
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He's spent half his life
on social media sites
Behind a fabricated image of life
Obsessed to get approved
accepted and liked
He compares his life scrolling
other profiles
Fake bubble full of plastic smiles
He can't remember when he
last felt satisfied
CH
He don't know it but he's living a lie
He don't know it but he's living a lie
He don't know it but he's living a lie
He used to go down the pub for some grub and a pint
But now you never ever see him outside
The lack of human interaction
affecting his mind
There's only one last place where
he still feels safe
Behind the laptop with
his online mates
He's never even heard their voice never seen their face
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3. |
Shut Doors
02:14
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Same old story, the world around
We’re all getting priced out of
our OWN towns
Discarded youth fend for
your self
Coz those on top won’t
share the wealth
To every pub landlord
that’s taken us in
We pack it to the rafters
everybody wins
An age old formula
tested and true
We take the door
They take the booze
CH
They’re Killing our music
to develop property
Soaring business rates
and music license fee
Backdoor deals the council’s taking bribes
No room for you
the day the music died
A sense of well-being
somewhere to belong
A community hub
coz Music makes us strong
A place to dance and
quench your thirst
To the noise complaining twat
WE WERE HERE FIRST!
Gonna keep on fighting
celebrate our noise
Support your local venues
before they get destroyed
Invest in music culture and recieve applause
Snatch back our culture from their greedy claws
CH
They’re shutting our venues
they’re killing live music
They’re choking our culture
CH
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4. |
First World Problems
03:02
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Totally strung out
Act like the end is nigh
no worse fucking burn out
You trashed it you messed up
Foul tempered flare up
Blame everyone but you
you spoiled little fuck up
CH
Any hiccup that Life could throw
Winding you up lacking all self control while you're
Throwing tantrums you
Think the world
Revolves around you and
your own little
First World Problems
first world first world
You're lucky you've no clue
You never had to
Suffer from poverty starvation
war and refuge
The life you're born into
don't let it ruin you
Open your eyes and realise there's no need to let
CH
Any hiccup
that life could throw
Winding you up lacking all self control while you're
Throwing tantrums you
Think the world
Revolves around you and
your own little
Short sighted self centred
First World Problems
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5. |
Out And Proud
02:57
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Imperialist will to proselytize
Under the grip of the British Empire
Poisoning their culture
with the seeds of hate
Enforce the British Raj to legislate
CH
Out and loud - Queer and proud
Fuck you
Out and loud - Queer and proud
fight back
Out and loud - Queer and proud
world wide
Out and loud - Queer and proud
right now
Anti sodomy law the word of god
Impose on the natives moral reform
Section 377 penal code
Infecting colonies all round the globe
CH
Implanting homophobia in your idealised utopia
A legacy that’s violating equal rights with no debating
Left your mess to fester while you grant equal rights back at home
Drinking from the poison chalice adopted hatred as their own
With independence and moral
acceptance
Global sentiments rejecting
Foreign mandated flaw in the system
Address the cause not the symptom
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6. |
The One Percent
03:27
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As the grip of property
developers tightens
Leaving luxury apartments in its wake
Even the once so vibrant
Grosvenor in Stockwell
Was forced to close
all boarded up rotting away
The crushing cost of city life just keeps on rising Forcing
poorer renting folks to move away
Foreign investors disregarding people's lives when Cuts stricken councils flogging every public place
CH
Their crippling austerity Is ripping up communities
Our neighbourhoods socially cleansed Extortionate rising rents
Bailed out the banks with our money The poorest in society
Neglected by this government Who only serve the one percent
As the gap between the classes ever widens
Increasing homelessness and child poverty rates
People queueing up at food banks nationwide now
While the richest get rewarded with tax breaks
The NHS and social care being neglected
In preparation for a private healthcare state
Believing politicians porky pies
you'll never know what you are missing til it's gone and then it's too late
Br
When you lose your job
Then you lose your home
When there's no one left
And you're on your own
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7. |
Uprising
03:09
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There ain't no circumstance
that justifies
Ethnic based privilege
state apartheid
State nationality rights only apply
To Jewish citizens
all others are denied
Mass ethnic cleansing In 48
Forceful displacement
to create an ethnic state
8 million refugees
still stuck outside
The "birthright" policy
not valid for their kind
ch
Denied Existence
Denied their rights
Rise up resistence
Ain’t no excuse for apartheid
Unarmed civilians shot dead on sight
Peaceful protesters who
stood up for their rights
Kids, medics, journalists
robbed of their lives
by US bullets shot by
Israeli snipers
What's left of Palestine
is still occupied
52 years of hell
while settlers colonise
It's time to rise up open your eyes
Boycott divest and sanction
end apartheid
br
From the Jordan River
to the Mediterranean
In solidarity
Demand equality
Return of refugees
Til Palestine is...
FREE FREE PALESTINE
FREE FREE PALESTINE
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8. |
Black Dog
02:44
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Cocooned in my duvet for
most of the week
My Appetite’s gone no desire to speak
the brain’s achilles heel
undermines all
Boosts your self worth then
sets you up to fall
Cheer up old boy stiff upper lip
You ‘ve no fuckin clue to my mindset
Black dog
suffocating me he just won’t leave
Black dog
welcome to my disease
CH
What’s my purpose here on earth
Evaluating my life’s worth
It sweeps over me in waves
Non existence is what I crave
Break my leg receive get well cards
But mental health’s met
with disregard
Stifled silence that
burdens the strain
Fight the stigma concealing the pain
Hello How you doing? I’m fine
but that’s a lie
Emotionally drained inside
I wanna die
I’ve been learning lots of
coping mechanism tricks
Here boy, invisible stick
go fetch it, go fetch it
With proper support I’m a
functional human being
But the focus on the negative is all you’re seeing
Black dog
Please understand I’m really fucking trying
Black dog
weigh the balance between loved ones and dying
CH
It’s back
Another attack
That sinking feeling
everything turns grey
Please keep fighting please keep living
You need to break out of this
subconscious prison
No need to be perfect
your life is worth it
show love and support to those who deserve it
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9. |
A Dark Day In September
03:01
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It was a dark day in September
When Aylan washed up on
that beach
A wake up call I still remember
To try and offer some relief
Collecting sleeping bags
and blankets
Tents clothing and food aid
As autumn temperatures
were dropping
I drove my motor to Calais
CH
And then you end up in the Jungle
With 10,000 refugees
And then you end up in the Jungle
Dire conditions in the Jungle
Neglected by both governments
It makes you put things
in perspective
Making me ever more determined
No major aid organisations
No previous experience
A total grassroots operation
Thrown straight in the deep end
CH
The best and worst place
altogether
A place of happiness and pain
A place of cheese bread and CS gas
Sunshine snow and flooding rains
A place that stays with you forever
A place of hope and hopelessness
Of deepest darkest desperation
Of new life and fucking death
CH
And then you end up in the Jungle
With 10,000 refugees
And then you end up in the Jungle
Shanty town communities
And then you end up in the Jungle
Daily assaults by French police
And then you end up in the Jungle
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10. |
The Fork
02:33
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Self appointed master at arms
Risk assesment to avoid self harm
Monumental choice is with
you for life
Made impulsively devoid of insight
All hands to deck stormy
weather ahead
Tied to the mast a game of
life or death
Habitual dependency sapping your strength
Or live to tell the tale with a message to spread
CH
Teenage soul at the fork in the road
Adrift in bliss while your future unfolds
Teenage soul at the fork in the road
Seeds been planted the root takes hold
Incubation bears your
adopted pathogen
Patiently waiting until
you meet again
Unwelcome stowaway
devouring its host
Subversive derision while
you try to stay afloat
Looking backwards
it all becomes clear
Perpetual question
how the fuck am I here
Circumnavigate the next
impassable mile
Fighting the poison eating you alive
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11. |
20 Years
02:48
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He moved here for the
punk rock scene
19 and looking for some fun
Memories from the previous
summers at the Eros drinking
in the sun
Meeting up pre gig on the fountain steps with the other punks
Blag a quid off a tourist taking pics chipping in for the offie run
CH
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Time flies this was 20 years
ago today
Best years half his life here
in the UK
Time flies this was 20 years
ago today
But now he's gotta apply for permission to stay
The first place where he stayed was a Brixton squat called the 121
Just weeks later saw his face in the paper the old bill had kicked em out at dawn Cheap travel never paid for the bus
changed the date on a pass
he found
63 to Kings Cross for the Krishna food and the Big Issue run
Those first years never
planning ahead
taking each day as it comes
Over time realizing this city is the only place he feels at home
Got a job joined a band found his other half 12 years together
as one
Never thought he'd see the day the UK would say they prefer to see him gone
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12. |
New World Order
04:04
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Conflicting world
people fighting one another
Bigoted religion turning
man against his brother
The men at the top
the elevated one percent
The civilised always
comprised of privileged
They make the rules obeyed by fools
Who drown in pools of
toxic shit and dissent
The armies of the poor
deployed in their wars
We are so confused
we don’t know what
we are fighting for
CH
New world order 7.7 billion slaves
New world order
endentured servant to the grave
New world order 7.7 billion slaves
New world order
Population trained to obey
we’re Infiltrating and calculating
anticipating your downfall
We’re caught in a life-trap
ensnared by their lies
False sense of security
while humanity dies
Bribed to buy give greed a try
Place your head between your legs
and kiss your Cash goodbye
Nice try sucka you thought
you could get out
a dumb mutha fucka
beyond reasonable doubt
Sitting there complacently
observing the dichotomy
A world without equality
awaiting its lobotomy
CH
Social media newsfeed
dumbing us down
voyeur indoctrinated
monitored and capitulated
Prospect of success
chase the dangling carrot
While their legacy of bigotry
is all that we inherit
Increased frequency of
subliminal misogyny
Spit thru gritted teeth
with no apology
Prejudical trans phobic
toxic homophobia
The patriarchal straight
white male utopia
New world new world order
Infiltrating agitating
calculating decimating
Activating demonstrating
escalating detonating
CH
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The Restarts London, UK
The Restarts are a UK based punk band! Formed 1995 in East London, they play thrash punk, infused with elements of ska and old school punk. The Restarts have been hammering their way through the squats of Europe and venues across North America for over two decades, earning themselves a global following of punk enthusiasts. ... more
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