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1. |
All Growed Up
02:50
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ALL GROWED UP
Get to the point it's so out of joint
That things can only progress
The war machine psychology
Has the world in an iron vest
The cheapest seats to make your life complete
Are too cheap to impress
The worst in human nature
Is paraded as the best
CH- Is there anything better than the life we're leading?
Is there anything left we can believe in?
To pick the truth from the endless proof
That the world revolves on lies
You got to press rewind to the childhood mind
And the nature of surprise
Cos the adult world to the boys and girls
Is full of things that nobody needs
All things bright and beautiful
Are sold for profit and greed
CH
If we all do what we're told to
Then we'll all be half asleep
If we sit still and be quiet
We'll make up secrets just to keep
Some reflection of importance
If we all go out to play
We'll remember the instructions
Then we'll throw them all away
Back to the point of being all growed up
In a world of ridiculous things
Where the colour of your skin says you can't come in
And the bankers act like kings
It's a social con to think anything's wrong
With asking for a little bit more
Equality between what we need
And what we're taken for
CH
Any explanation for the fact
We don't understand how grownups act
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2. |
Humanity Show
02:49
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HUMANITY SHOW
It's all in the brain now, it's like a part of the machine
It says everything is useless if it isn't what you need
The shopping list is endless so you better get to work
Went to bed with promises woke up with a jerk
Oh what a mess the world is in I guess
At the length of time we got
before we go like a forgotten dream
Away from the machine
The war machine the coke machine
The TV screen the marketing
Emoticons the rights and wrongs
Who has got the biggest bombs
The price of food the acid rain
Dressing up for charity
Nothing more than entertainment
Nothing less than slavery
They used to say
It's always been this way
Now it's changing twice a day
And there's always more to pay
For the chains around our necks
Are so beautifully set
We're so easily impressed
It's distraction at its best
That's why we got the press
To minimise the stress
Of knowing more not less
Reduction to impress
The headline was in red
Don't remember what it said
And I didn't read the rest
Turned the telly on instead
It's all in the brain now the humanity show
Fast forward evolution til we don't know what we know
Information overdrive lies dressed up as facts
All this talk of freedom well we want some of it back
Is it a test to see what happens next?
What's the length of time we take
Before we want to stay awake and scream
I'm not part of the machine
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3. |
Milk + dub
04:30
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MILK
Big names written on the warplanes
Bullets in the war-drained shadows of civilisation
Dealers arming up the leaders
Saying you need all this for your own protection
You got to keep the people safe or sorry
They ever asked for change
Did you follow in the path of people
Who were bombed out running from the world turned over?
Crowding in a boat and drowning
Or stay afloat and reach the shores of anywhere
Away from all this hatred shock and dying
To feel alive again
CH: It's what we pay for
That's why we stay poor
Nothing left but hope and anger
Here's the milk of human madness
Backed up waiting to be stacked up
In a human dustbin one that never gets collected
Hoping for a bit of clothing
Maybe less of the media's fear and loathing
Where's the promised land of hope and-
Sorry there's no more room today
CH
Did you hear about the kids who
Travelled all the way to find a place to stay in Devon?
One voice made a lot of dumb noise
Saying he was standing up for what he stood for
Mostly unreported was the tide of love
Supportive all the way
Here's the milk of human understanding
Not so far away
CH
What we have we use to keep the basic needs all free forever
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4. |
Skip
03:54
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SKIP
It may be a bit of an American thing
But the supermarkets got a song to sing
Saying we can't afford to ever get sued
By people getting ill from eating our food
Here's your sell-by date on the back
Here's your instructions on the pack
Where's the food that's all thrown away?
Lying out the back in a skip they say
I found it in a skip
If it's midnight snacking
You're after get packing
From the pub to the grub
That's flung at the back
Of the supermarket - free food!
Wake up all you half-asleepers
Free market economy- finders keepers
You want your food for free
Found it in a skip
Oversupply on the sell-by date
Or the mouldy reminder it'll be too late
To have this bread on tomorrow's plate
So binbag it up and give it way
It's Sunday- over the street there's a church
Let's say they all get back on their feet and emerge
To all the bread they can eat or disperse
To the poor and needy- ah now they're at the door
Turn up the sounds it's free food core!
Found it in a skip
Antibiotics at the bottom of the skip
Don't take a chance of getting sick
Question marks at the bottom of the packet
Just one left so I think I'd better have it
Found a blue pill and a bottle of wine
1968 or 9
Woke up in the hospital next day
MSG in my DNA
It may not be good for my health
But I can't afford to eat anywhere else
Found it in a skip
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Meanwhile-
Coin flipping heads to tales
Of modern-day poverty off the scale
Pride and status the whole dividing
Nature of these things we hide in
Along with expectation, trust in
All the masks of civilisation
Crashing hungry to the floor
Here's your humanity eaten raw
Shamed and angry where do you begin
To fit? It's a social sin
Food banks handing out hope in tins
To farmers driven to the wall by minimal
Prices right it's supermarket
Warfare on the poor and starving
Cheap and nasty feeding on
A chemical nutrition bomb
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5. |
Clampdown
04:03
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CLAMPDOWN
Fingers on the buttons of all these suits and ties
Here come the instructions on how to live a life
We'll keep it entertaining as we tell you that you're screwed
And advertise the notion that we're all so free to choose
And as we blame the people who are rarely met or named
For unemployment rising bills and things that aren't the same
And as we learn to need the screen to be our anaesthetic
The world turns on the telly- what was that mate? Ah forget it
We got to wise up to the clampdown
A population of consumers everyone has their price
That lives on ego cravings and forgets how to be nice
To others who if spoken to would be a mirror to our faces
Most of us could use the trust we lost to those in higher places
Awoken heard and spoken repeated and discussed
All the split perceptions that we cling to- them and us
Filtered down divisions end up fighting on the bus
That's the way they like it- they think we'll never get it sussed
We got to wise up to the clampdown
There's unity in poverty when desperation shares
Its loneliness- used to think I didn't care
Wise up to the whys and wheres the cause of all this stress
Psychotic ideology: 'trust us we know best'
This isn't just a battle it's more or less a war
Cos nothing short of shouting seems to get through anymore
Now we know we're not alone in wanting this to change
Cos we've all got something better to say
We got to wise up to the clampdown
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6. |
Humanity Dub
03:56
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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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Another great release from a long standing band in the UK diy scene. From when I first saw them in Eastbourne in 1990 to this release now I still love this band.
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