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When we need a piece of paper we take it from the bank
When we need a ballpoint pen we take it from the bank
When we need an envelope we take it from the bank
When we need some Sellotape...
We ask them at the post office
We don't buy stationary (NO! NO!)
'Cause it's not necessary
If you go to the bank they'll give you that shit for free!
We don't buy stationary (NO! NO!)
'Cause it's not necessary
If you go to the bank they'll give you that shit for freeeeeee!
They steal from us everyday
They owe us more than stationary
They steal from us everyday
They owe us more than stationary
They steal from us everyday
They owe us more than stationary
They steal from us everyday
So do the Royal Mail...
Ask our lovely friends in Slack Bird
We don't buy stationary (NO! NO!)
'Cause it's not necessary
If you go to the bank they'll give you that shit for free!
We don't buy stationary (NO! NO!)
'Cause it's not necessary
If you go to the bank they'll give you that shit for freeeeeee!
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2. |
Turbo Mocha Time
03:08
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When you're feeling down and lacking in your energy
It's turbo mocha time, yeah turbo mocha time
When the weight of everything has left you feeling bed ridden
It's turbo mocha time, you know it's turbo mocha time!
Seven shots of rum and the same amount of strong coffee
That's turbo mocha time, yeah turbo mocha time
A table spoon of sugar and another one of cocoa please
It's turbo mocha time, you know it's turbo mocha time
It's turbo mocha time!
It gets you drunk and it tastes divine
Yeah turbo mocha time!
Drink that drink and feel sublime
I do not drink coffee, can I have a rooibos please?
That's turbo rooibos time, turbo choco-rooibos time
Can I have two sugars please because this tea is caffeine free?
I'm way ahead of you, this drink has extra rum in too
It's turbo rooibos time!
Still gets you drunk and it tastes divine
Yeah turbo choco-rooibos time!
Drink that drink and feel sublime
When it's time to sleep Sunday before your working week
Your turbo mocha times are something you must leave behind
Unless you quit your job, stop paying rent and find a squat
Then it's turbo mocha time nine to five and five to nine!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
We drink this drink to fuel everything we do
From having lots of fun to activism too
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
Barista! Barista! ANTIFASCISTA!
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States and Nations
03:20
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The world that we live in for so many unforgiving
And not just for the ones who're physically in cages
Segregation separates the nation
That's how it is and how it's been for ages
It's even worse on a global scale
Government agendas telling people how to feel
If we blame those that've crossed the borders
Then we're never gonna fight against law and order
STATES AND NATIONS and the borders in between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
NATION STATES AND every border in-between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
Those in power don't represent me
And I despise all the lines they draw
Sovereign states seem so archaic
SMASH THE BORDERS we don't need them any more
STATES AND NATIONS and the borders in between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
NATION STATES AND every border in-between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
The world that we live in for so many unforgiving
And not just for the ones who're physically in cages
Segregation separates the nation
That's how it is and how it's been for ages
It's even worse on a global scale
Government agendas telling people how to feel
If we blame those that've crossed the borders
Then we're never gonna fight against law and order
States and nations and the borders in between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
NATION STATES AND every border in-between
Created by the people who sit pretty at the top
Freedom of movement is what we really need
To gain the strength as one to fight the common enemy
Those most privileged can cross the borders
They're only barriers for the poorer
Those most privileged can cross the borders
They're only barriers for the poorer
Those most privileged can cross the borders
They're only barriers for the poorer
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Cages
03:59
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Animals are clothing, animals are food
Animals allowed to live only if they're cute
And only in the kinda way where we dictate and they obey
That's how they're seen today
Animals commodified live out their lives in cages
Genetically they're modified, matured at younger ages
Profit is the bottom line, that's how it's been for ages
The cost of life is getting pretty low
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Animals have feelings too and you know it's the truth
Animals cannot consent to testing out our drugs
The effects of which are rarely the same they are for us
This practise is compulsory, for our health they will bleed
The illness that we have is further fed
There should not be a word for living beings with a cost
Yet livestock is a word that's used by too many of us
Why the hells should we decided which creatures live and which ones die?
Every creature has the right to life
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Animals have feelings too and you know it's the truth
You scrimp and you save and you work all day
You earn a tiny fraction of the money made
But you've gotta keep on working, yeah you've gotta get paid
That's how it is today
The bosses in the office, the grim reaper in disguise
Spend their hours counting profits while the death tolls rise
Propaganda and deception, a smokescreen for their lies
That's just the game they play
Separate and segregate, create a lower class
Perpetuate the rhetoric that what is our's is our's
National identity don't really make much sense to me
But that's how they keep control
Problems of another country aren't our's to get involved
Unless there's opportunities for minerals and gold
Labour is preferable when workforce is disposable
The cost of life is getting pretty low
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders
We're all in cages
We're all in cages
We're all in cages
We're all in cages
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
Lock by economics, revolution is the key
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Living in the anthropocene, and it’s 200 and something
66 million years since dinosaurs were walking here
Reputation was pretty mean, but
Kept the planet nice and clean
Then from the sky a big surprise
Dinos said their last good...
Bye bye plants and fauna,
even though we cant really afford to lose you,
We’re still gonna abuse you
Bye bye plants and fauna
Turn the planet into a sauna,
We’ll miss you,
Are you gonna miss us too?
Go to school and study history
From dinosaurs to the birth of industry
Learn about “Man great creations”!
But never about the consequences
Pumping coal into the sky
Learning how to make things fly
Human progress aint it great
All these shiny things to….
Bye bye plants and fauna,
even though we cant really afford to lose you,
We’re still gonna abuse you
Bye bye plants and fauna
Turn the planet into a sauna,
We’ll miss you,
Are you gonna miss us too?
Politicians pretend to care, tell us,
They'll do their fair share, but
When it comes to big decisions,
Like, granting new fracking permissions
The only ones they care about
Are their mates and their bank accounts
Local democracy in tatters
Real change feels so hard to come …..
Bye bye plants and fauna,
even though we cant really afford to lose you,
We’re still gonna abuse you
Bye bye plants and fauna
Turn the planet into a sauna,
We’ll miss you,
Are you gonna miss us too?
Kent police waffle on Reclaim The Power’s answer phone whilst looking for a protest in the wrong county
Bye bye plants and fauna,
even though we cant really afford to lose you,
We’re still gonna abuse you
Bye bye plants and fauna
Turn the planet into a sauna,
We’ll miss you,
Are you gonna miss us too?
Burning fuels to feed our addiction
Heading to a new mass extinction
Its bleak but don’t despair
There's things to do if you really care
so , grab your friends and raise a banner
Stop that truck and do a lock on
Our movements are winning battles
This might not be our final good…
Bye bye plants and fauna,
even though we cant really afford to lose you,
We’re still gonna abuse you
Bye bye plants and fauna
Turn the planet into a sauna,
We’ll miss you,
Are you gonna miss us too?
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Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen...
COVID 19!!!
We don't mind if you smell or if you're dirty
You've gotta understand that this virus can't be seen, though
So wash your hands for twenty seconds, maybe thirty
We promise that we won't say that you're a cleano!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
I know it's fun to fiddle with your lip ring
I do it all the time, yeah, I fiddle with my lip ring
You've really gotta stop fiddling with your lip ring
Ah rats! I've done it again! I've fiddled with my lip ring!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
If like me you're struggling not to touch your face
Try occupying your hands by playing your guitar...
Or your bass!
Wash your hands! Wash your hands!
Wash your hands! Don't touch your face!
Wash your hands! Wash your hands!
Wash your hands! Don't touch your face!
Wash your hands! Wash your hands!
Wash your hands! Don't touch your face!
Wash your hands! Wash your hands!
Wash your hands and do not touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
Wash your hands don't touch your face!
WASH YOUR HANDS AND DO NOT TOUCH YOUR...
WASH YOUR HANDS AND DO NOT TOUCH YOUR...
WASH YOUR HANDS AND DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE!
PLAY THE BASS!
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Prisons
03:41
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We incarcerate the people that have fallen through the gaps
Of this broken system,
stuck in the traps of the laws that were built
to keep 'their kind' away
Boop bee doo bee doo boop
It's just another opportunity to destroy the communities
of certain groups, while handing impunity.
To rich white men, who're the ones that are usually
Causing all the harm.
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
How can locking someone in a cage
Ever bring about positive change
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
We don't need reform, we need abolition
Build communities, burn the prisons
Prisons have always failed from the start of it
Rehabilitation was never at the heart of it
It's all about punishments, not about justice
Locking people up will always be destructive
But we keep on ploughing on with this system
Crime rates haven't dropped, in fact they've risen
So what do they do? They build more prisons,
and create new laws so that they can fill them
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
How can locking someone in a cage
Ever bring about positive change
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
We don't need reform, we need abolition
Build communities, burn the prisons
But does this really work in all cases?
What about keeping us safe from the rapists?
What about keeping crime off our streets?
Don't we need prisons for that at least?
Rape cases see few arrests and convictions
Never focus on actually supporting the victims
The majority of street crime's routed in inequality
And just a product of our racist economy
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
How can locking someone in a cage
Ever bring about positive change
These cages won't keep our streets safe,
When the violence comes from the hands of the state
We don't need reform, we need abolition
Build communities, burn the prisons
There's racism every step of the way
From the courts to the judges that put people away,
The teachers and the schools and the welfare systems
The cops and the juries and the guards in the prison
This system's rigged and it's in my favour
I'm less likely to be caught out for my behaviour
To be stopped and searched, arrested or served time,
Than my black counter part would for the same crime
We need to tear down these walls and create a system
That doesn't profit from destruction and create decision
We need to tear down these walls
They won't tear down themselves
We don't want your cops, your laws, your courts, your prisons!
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8. |
All Cops Are Breakfast
03:04
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There's palm oil in the food that I buy
I put diesel in the van that I drive
And there's privilege in the pigments of my skin
and the country that I happen to be born in
There's rare earth metals in my phone
that are mined by children in a conflict zone
Slavery's stitched in the clothes that I wear
And the pockets of the benefiting billionaires.
I put money in the hands of my enemies as I try to live ethically
There's no such thing as ethical consumption under this
capitalist system that we live in.
But they'll sell you the dream that you have a choice,
But voting with your wallet won't give you a voice.
Playing at their game just isn't going to stop it,
We need to put people over profits.
There's 7 types of vegan cheese in Tescos,
But they've closed all the local shops on my road.
And these white washed lessons of history
hide the colonial horrors of my tea.
This avocado somewhere down the line
Is funding a war on Palestine
And this blood on my hands I'll wash away,
With microplastics that go down the drain.
I put money in the hands of my enemies as I try to live ethically
There's no such thing as ethical consumption under this
capitalist system that we live in.
But they'll sell you the dream that you have a choice,
But voting with your wallet won't give you a voice.
Playing at their game just isn't going to stop it,
We need to put people over profits.
It doesn't really matter what brand you choose,
'cos everything's controlled by just a few
People at the top that own it all
And don't seem to give a shit at all
They own the papers and their stories
And they'll gladly fund the Tories
With a big campaign donation
So they can rewrite legislation.
I put money in the hands of my enemies as I try to live ethically
There's no such thing as ethical consumption under this
capitalist system that we live in.
But they'll sell you the dream that you have a choice,
But voting with your wallet won't give you a voice.
Playing at their game just isn't going to stop it,
We need to put people over profits.
But please don't be defeated by this,
'cos it's ethical consumption when you eat the rich
We'll share out the land and share out the crops
And tomorrow for breakfast we can eat the cops
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9. |
Fuck You Ashley
03:43
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Off we go, to find some wood, resourceful as we are
This will do great, and it's free to take
I just wish it wasn't so far
But we load up our bikes and pull bungies tight
And turn around to make our way
When from nowhere some man appears
“You got a boyfriend” he says
Within a minute he has got us cornered
Strong advances and familiar questions
Are you gay or bi or what he spits
Now he wants a threesome freaky creepy piece of shit
Well what do you expect when you look like that,
And you dress like that, and do DIY in public!
Well just to be, left the fuck alone
Would that be so hard you shit head?!
Later that night we park the van
And get to sawing outside
It isn’t neat and it isn’t straight
Scrappy ska-punk DIY
But before we can finish
The dreaded happens
And we are spotted by a guy
Come over here and look at this lads
“There’s women doing DIY”?!
Well what do you expect when you look like that,
And you dress like that, and do DIY in public!
Well just to be, left the fuck alone
Would that be so hard you shit head?!
We finish up quick
and just as we hope
we might make it inside in time
Over comes another bloke
To see this DIY
But we’ve stepped outside our gender roles
And it’s too much of a trigger
He decides it’s time to assert control
With his head through the wing mirror
Oh Ashley what did you do that for?
What were you trying to prove?
You silly boy…
You grab your head,
Dazed and confused
You’ve gone and hurt yourself
Well what do you expect when you think like that
And when you act like that
I hope you wake up with a headache
Now just leave us
The fuck alone
Would that be so hard you shit head!?
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