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Say no more
Say only less
What have we come to ?
Living this mess
Living conditions us
to believe,
us to accept
living conditions
Life on the streets
"We own your life"
Is this similar to
Housing conditions ?
Violence is the end
of the marginalised (of the victimised)
in the spaces we are given
as living conditions
Living
conditions
us to accept
Living conditions
Living
conditions us
to accept
Money, always to the rich
"The Stupid Poor will blame each other"
No grand designs
Just parochial minds
Living
conditions us
to accept
Living conditions
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Got no time, got no way
Got nothing, at the end of the day
Got no time, got no way
Got nothing, not even a day
No-one knows how much is left
Got to get on with it, nothing left
Emptied out, right to the ground
All the smell of death, falling around
Must be, some kind of way out
Eternal being, no doubt
Ticking away, time ticking away
Time ticking away, time ticking away
Ticking away, ticking away
Flowing away, falling away
Falling away, falling
No time left, got no time,
Got no way, got nothing
It's the end of the day,
It's the final dance,
The final day
No time
No time
No
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Hog Tied v.2
03:27
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Scraping the Underbelly
Hog Tied
Locked in the back of the truck
heading of into the sunset
Heading off the edge of a cliff
Dragging us all along with you
We're all Hog Tied
We're all Hog Tied
I Gotta get out of this
Dragged along with it
Dragged along
Drag along with me
Why you drag it down
with everyone around the side ?
Scraping the underbelly
Up and down
around and around
Why ?
I need a way.
I gotta get up
Gotta get out of it
Tied
Bound to say
I'm bound to say
We're Hog Tied
Mind your ears.
Get up
Mind your ears
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4. |
I Miss You All (v1)
03:27
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Don't you think of it the way you want it ?
Don't you think of it the way you need ?
Don't you think of it the way you should now ?
Don't you think of it, the way it bleeds ?
Just you take control and there you have it
Just you take control and there it is
Just you take control, it's all on you now
Just you take control, it never gives an inch
Don't you think of it the way you want it ?
Don't you think of it the way you need ?
Don't you think of it the way you should now ?
Don't you think of it, the way it bleeds ?
Just you take control and then you have it
Just you take control and there it is
Just you take control, it's all on you now
Just you take control, it never gives an inch
Don't forget, it will return.
Step around the lines and then you're in it
Step around the lines and then you'll know
Step around the lines, you're right in it
Step around the lines, it didn't go that way.
Oh No.
It should have been there,
But you'll find in the end it's not there
Where is it ?
You don't know now
It's always somewhere else,
under somebody else's control
What kind of world is this we're living in ?
What kind of world is this ?
I'd like to know
Did we want it ?
I do not think so
It's all the same, on and on,
On and on.
What did you ?
Went to go now
I can't find my way
Oh, where did it go now ?
Oh no, I can't find my way
back home again.
Home again.
Outside there
in the mess that's all around us
Do you wanna look outside ?
How long have you got ?
How long is left now ?
Do you know what it is going to ?
Oh little dreamy head
It's all on you
Sooner or later
We're all falling down dead
Oh, I didn't want it this way
but in time we will all be gone
and it won't matter anyway
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6. |
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7. |
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So you thought you'd
come around the way.
Getting back again.
"Nobody's interested,
no-one wants to help you,
lay down and die
or get up and fight again"
Is there any point ?
I want to know.
"No there isn't"
So why bother at all ?
Gotta get some(thing),
gotta get outta this
nonsensical existence
made by all the assholes.
Everywhere around the world
they all sit in silence, doing nothing.
Everybody wants to get in your way all the time.
What's the point, what's the point ?
I don't know (x5)
Tell me what the point is.
Tell me.
If you find it, give me a sign.
Let's play the games until we all die.
Oh, I just want out of this pointlessness.
Give me a break let me go.
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The circus in on fire
Oh, yet again
Enacting laws of parliament
Wash the blood from your hands
The circus is on fire
Big top's burning down
The circus is on fire
Yet again
The circus is on fire
The big top's burning down
The circus is on fire
Yet again
Here we go now
and watch it all fall
Oh, will it never end
Oh oh, here we go
Watch it all
and it never ends
The circus is on fire
The big top's burning down
The circus is on fire
Yet again
The circus is on fire !
(It's a) Circus
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9. |
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Here it comes
Where would we be
without the bits of paper
telling us it's alright ?
Where would we be
without more laws,
more paperwork ?
Lawyers not getting richer,
Oh what a terrible world.
Can't you do anything ?
No, not without the dots
and the crosses.
Alright, why do we all fight ?
There must be some light
at the end of the tunnel.
Life-like light
coming down the line
we've all gotta hope
we've all gotta be
blinded by nonsensical ego bullshit.
Why don't you do the thing ?
Oh, we're not allowed to do it like that, no,
we have to do it like this
we have to acquiesse
and you will be told
we have to acquiesse
you will be told
you have to acquiesse
you will be
told.
...........
Incompetent governments.
Incompetent everything.
Whatever.
Whatever next ?
On and on and on
and on and on and on.
Fight for the right
Stand for the right
Doing alright
Don't fuck it up again, right ?!
Stand for the right.
Don't fuck it up, alright !
Don't keep dragging it out
on your ego.
Get on with it assholes.
Get on with it.
There must be a better way than this.
No, no, blow it alright (oh yeah) into the night
Dragging up every stupid thing
every government in succession.
Another law,
another thing to bind everyone
in endless paperwork.
Where would we be
without all the dotted, crossed lines ?
...........
Are they up all night
in the house of commons ?
Oh, can we get it all right ?
Can we make it alright now ?
Watch the sky, in the air,
wait for it all to fall around our ears,
can't make up our minds
always gotta be blinded
by nonsense of egos.
Big egos, massaged.
From a little girl,
little proud boy
grow up
to know your birthright.
You're one of the elite.
You can do what you want
bring it all around everybody's feet
because you do
what your mammy and daddy
wanted you to do.
Screw everyone who gets in the way
not just today
for all time.
Mess it up, acquiesse and tell us
nothing, except to go along with it
Well, why don't you go along
with what you're being told here.
(Don't I have the right job title for you to arselick ?)
"We're trying to break free
and what do you do ?
You go over there and bow your head
after telling everyone here
what must be done."
.......
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