1. |
Collective Intelligence?
01:06
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All these years,
have we learnt anything?
have they really meant a thing?
What have all these lives added up to?
All the people who have lived
and yet how many times can history repeat itself?
How many people will continue to die through
war, famine, poverty and disease?
Time is infinite our lives anything but
yet we waste our lives trapped by a society
we didn't even create
(yet are content to maintain)
If we have learnt anything
it is how not to care
how to hate
to only think of ourselves
And all we do is switch off our minds
Is this really it?
Are we really just killing time
waiting till we die?
Drowning in a society devoid of hope
We had the capability of creating utopia
and all we created was a living hell.
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2. |
Self Denial
01:09
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We live our lives in constant self denial
Internalised values that dictate our insecurities
From birth our confidence negated
Belief in ourselves stripped
Conformity, dependency and mediocrity the rule
And we don't even dare to dream
Even though we all hold the key to our own independence
The bitter price of failure holding us in place
Conformity, dependency and mediocrity the rule.
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3. |
Development
01:35
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We talk of "one world"
while people starve in the Third
We talk of freedom
And hold on to the key
Yet knowing this society's democracy
is no more than a regime.
The only thing we ever learn from history
is that we are doomed to repeat it
Statistics for ballistics
because this is development
How developed do you have to be
before you are developed?
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This lyric should have actually said "because we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it"
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4. |
Right to Choose
01:43
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Wouldn't it be nice...
If people only got pregnant when they wanted to?
To have it all under control.
Then there wouldn't really be a need for abortion.
Well, welcome to the REAL works and things look a lot different.
No-one should have the right to dictate to woman
what she should do with her body
or for the rest of her fucking life
Do you think by illegalising abortions
that abortions are going to stop?
(just take a look back and you'll know the answer)
we need free state abortions that are safe and hygienic
(without apology)
not a return to unsafe
and fatal backstreet abortions.
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5. |
Punk Rock Product
01:14
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Another punk rock product
on another punk rock shelf
Where's the line between
rebellion and conformity?
Where do you fit in yourself?
Why do you just follow trends?
Live your life of pretence
Scared what you may find
If you relised your own mind
and the fact that you could really
lead your own life and these
decisions could be yours to decide
Wannabe rock-stars,
using the underground scene
as a stepping stone
to your CD deal (and major label control),
Selling your integrity
for commercial gain
Your music just another product to be sold
a diluted message of artificial rebellion
So nicely packaged,
so easy to swallow
It's now too safe,
NO RULES now means NEW RULES
Music, bands, record sleeves,
attitudes, morals, membership schemes,
agents, contracts, guarantees,
buying elitist, selling consumerist scenes.
If you relised your own mind
and the fact that you could really
lead your own life and these
decisions could be yours to decide.
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6. |
Language of Hate
01:52
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The language of hate
Taught every fucking day
Is it any wonder people turn out this way?
Frustrated inner-selves can't find or speak mind
The cog wheels turn
and society leaves you behind
The force of rules
The actions of hate
Contently stuffed fat on pride
Never really stepped out of line
It's not even my own choice to fucking decide
All I know is I was born and I will die
The language of school
the politics of state
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7. |
Fear
00:24
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We're taught to live in fear
Fear of doing the wrong thing
Fear of not fitting in
And it stops us from being
Who we really are
And from doing
What we really want to do.
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8. |
A Capitalist Dream
01:20
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Something is wrong
Something is really fucked up
When everything has its price
When everything can be bought and sold
Your body,
your ideals,
your integrity,
your conscience,
your dreams,
your future,
your life -
WHAT'S YOUR PRICE?
Something is wrong
Something is really fucked up
When everything has a price
When everything can be owned and manipulated
"Democracy",
human beings,
the earth,
our freedom,
our spirituaity, sexuality and thoughts -
NAME YOUR PRICE!
But not me,
i refuse to play your game
- a society based on greed is paramount to suicide.
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"NO ADMISSION
WITHOUT PERMISSION
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE"
said the barbed wire fence.
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Kitchener Manchester, UK
Kitchener were a hardcore punk band from Manchester, England.
Their music reflected their personal
lives; chaotic, out-of-control, and violent. They were genuinely angry at the world, hated fascists and had real issues with the police, and despised the conformity in the punk and anarchist scene as much as in the mainstream world outside.
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