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Someone Has to Pay Dub
03:26
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2. |
How Low Can You Go?
03:09
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3. |
Mindwash demo
03:55
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stranger than fiction its no contradiction
theres nowt so new as an instant view
day in day out see the heads stretch out
for the headline brand of minimal understanding
just enough to feed the need to point and nod its all agreed
for hunger doesnt shrink away from all there is to eat today
but lies and twisted gut reactions lay the world to waste
negativity and cakes just nice enough to hide the taste
of mindwash
- throw out the trash
its mindwash
- pick the truth to pieces
mindwash
feel a bit older look over your shoulder
keep up with the news before it happens to you
stay in go out see the hands stretch out
for at least some cash for a tabloid wrap to crash in
not close enough to home to know the problem's everywhere you go
so best stay in and see the blame apportioned to these nameless frames
homeless jobless hungry foreign bodies in our sights
our reflection in their eyes dares us to read between the lies
of mindwash
fear of immigration
mindwash
benefixation
mindwash
fear and suspicion creates the decision
to walk out of vision and take a position
in shadows of doubt see the world stretched out
in an atmos-sphere of social engineering
if the only way to keep the hordes distracted without getting bored
enough to question what they're told is human base response control
then all it takes to stay awake and rise above the shit
is to say my base response is this fuck you and your misogynistic
mindwash
bigoted and racist
mindwash
war and money worship
mindwash
tits and bums and dumbin it down
is your conscience in a coma?
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4. |
Sky High remix
04:04
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5. |
Found it in a Skip
05:25
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6. |
Pick n Mix Section
06:46
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Grinding Cogs
prices rise
wages fall
quality loss
and mass production
mindless jobs
lethargy
poverty
and desperation
runs the slowly
grinding cogs
of the machine
time to turn the lights on people
who and what are we working for?
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7. |
Black Sky War Cry
03:06
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8. |
Sky High live
04:13
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sky high they built the landscape
so they can look down its the best way
to get the buzz from being so first rate
in the game of making it pay
sky high capital investment
in a building keeping it vacant
while the homeless down on the pavement
used to live here getting in the way
sky high looking at dreams through
windows screens at other people's nightmares
short term memory lane closed down
for the pain relief of looking elsewhere
sky high figures on lists get bigger
the closer you get to the pyramid floor
its ctitical mass and poverty's the trigger
people want to keep what they had before
and the bloke who used to live next door
has just signed up to the new class war
he's heard too much and he's on the streets
saying 'this no longer has any meaning'
sky high out of his mind on
what he could find on minimum waging war on
boredom what did he find but similar
minds set ready to go when called on
the offchance of a mass connection
so much going in the same direction
is it sky high dreaming to be free from living
in a rat race killing off human kindness?
now its putting our heads together and
changing the cultural corporate mindset
sky high bringing it down to earth or
winging it bringing it to the ground
sky high higher they get the further they fall
we'll see you on the way back down
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9. |
Private Revolutions live
02:31
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the race it seems is on between
volume and stupidity
all the private revolutions
go unheard in this confusion
no peace comes with staying silent
it just keeps it close to home
its easy to hide in a crowded room
and hard to achieve when you're on your own
spirits bend to keep from breaking
lean toward the entertaining
mix and match the overwary
with the empty loud and scary
social nervous disbelief
is this all there is good grief
hope repeats its mantric curse
you'll never get it better til youve had a lot worse
inside outside all the woes can
paint the world in shades of black
contact impact on assumptions
watch them all come bouncing back
all these private revolutions
waiting for the dam to break
time to find the small but constant
voice of common sense, and wake it UP
your anger keeps me thinking
your hatred makes me sick
your sadness makes me silent
your shouting makes me quick
your smiling makes me equal
your frowning makes me hide
there's just so many people
with all this stuff inside
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10. |
Civilisation Street live
03:07
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11. |
Visibility live
03:25
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123
i wanna be free
every tom and harry wants a piece of me
IDENTITY
postcode please
everything else is up on our screen
PRIVACY
we're doing that for free
membership on the world wide sea
CTV
its looking after me
safe and sound til i'm proven guilty
CH watching out for being watched or noticed/
how the stage is set for acting out the new psychosis
123
nail me to the screen
look at this face booked in to some re
A-LIT-Y
please like me
all these instant friends are somewhere
INBETWEEN
the two realities
solitude shares in the company
ITS NOT 3D
this visibility
is social mediaocrity
CH
INFO WARS
none of you is yours
we're living in a film and its all recordid you
FEEL SECURE
when they told you what its for
notional security better than before the
INTERNET
and dont forget
the bigger it gets the more we use the
WORDS 'PROTECT'
+'under threat'
it goes too far down you want to reconnect
123
do you really want to be
nothing more than humanized machinery
-LET'S SEE
if we can all agree
to somehow keep control of our need for visi
BILITY
i'll see you at the sea
3 dimensional no pretensional
UNITY
i dont wanna be
numb or numbered
123
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Culture Shock [ska-punk UK] Bath, UK
The original ska-punk-reggae fusioneers, who from 86-89 woke up the alternative scene with their 3 albums and incessantly energetic touring, and are now reformed since 2013, with another 3 albums since then- onwards!
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