1. |
Intro waffle
02:11
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2. |
All Gone Dead
01:34
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All is quiet all is dead
The city has melted
The sound has penetrated
Through our heads
The world has ended the gas is gone
It killed the people now the mutants live on
Chorus:
So long to the world
That's what they said
It's 1984 and it's all gone dead
There is no England
Anarchy is right
But don't contradict
Or try to fight
It's always dark there is no light
And 77 has rose to it's height
Chorus
They shouldn't have brought back hanging
It caused a lot of fuss
No one could trust the government
We had the fuckers sussed
There are no banks left
They've all gone bust
And the houses of Parliament is just a pile of dust
Chorus
It's 1984 and there's gonna be a war
War,war, who needs fucking war
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3. |
So Much Money
02:17
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[chorus]
So much money where does it all come from?
We're paying for democracy never mind the bomb
So much money what does it do?
It puts them in power where they shit on you
You don't care about the social disease
You got so much money you can do as you please
Too many people voted for you
Now you re telling us what to do
Money is power and you re so rich
You married for money to a classy bitch
Use the cash to build up a regime
The silent man behind the killing machine
[Chorus]
Political war is an easy game
Using the people to support your aim
State your idea of your ideal state
And after they've voted it ll be too late
And when the country's in a fucking mess
They want to know the secret of your success
You never used weapons you never used tools
But money is power and people are fools
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4. |
Can't Hear the Words
02:01
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Complicated words are stated
Theories become outdated
The innovation of your crime
Is out of tune and out of time
No! No! I don t like it!
What we gonna do about it?
Let s sit down and talk about it
Action speaks louder than silence
But action is more than just violence
The thoughts are too strong to keep down
But you can t hear the words cos the music's too loud
No! No! I don t like it!
What we gonna do about it?
Let s sit down and talk about it
Political voices
Distortionate noises
The products of our teenage dreams
Is this what entertainment means?
The piercing sound of teenage screams
Talking can't change anything
Someone said "the boy can't sing"
This entertainment is absurd
You re so busy fighting you can't hear the words
All your violence is in vain
You action men are all the same
Action is more than mindless violence
Look at yourself in paranoid silence
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5. |
Work Experience
02:36
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Working for money and the system too
Thought the dole queue made you worthless
Now you're slave to a public machine
Getting somewhere...is this what they mean?
Worthless....not enough money!
[Chorus:]
I'd rather work for money
Than just for something to do
But then why bother working at all?
Do you want to stay totally normal?
You wanted more and what did they say?
You'll never sell yourself to anyone
Come back and try in six months time
Don't you know there's a social decline?
Politics - don't it make you mad?
[Chorus]
You said you'd look for another job
Well try it sonny you won't get far
Do as you're told and stop complaining
Being conned is part of the training
Crash course - learning how to lose
[chorus]
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6. |
I Don't Wanna Die
01:30
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It's getting out of hand, they don't understand
They never ever will, they never ever can
Don't wanna live if I can't be free
The system kills but it won't kill me
I don't wanna die
Can't run away, come back someday
Cos it won't change whatever you say
Fear and guilt up to the hilt
They can't escape from the walls they've built
I don't wanna die
They gave me a gun and told me to run
"Defend your country from the atom bomb"
I said "Why?" They couldn't reply
The system kills but I don't wanna die
I don't wanna die
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7. |
Society
02:07
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Our society, what a drag
Another nervous breakdown, another fag
You can't get to sleep cos you lost your pills
And the protein tablets make you ill
[chorus]
Our society, what a drag!
Drive around in a smashed up car
Sometimes you wonder who you are
You look depressed as you walk upstairs
Cos you lost your job and no one cares
[chorus]
See the policemen running round
Driving culture underground
They get paid to put you away
Cos that's how the system works these days
[chorus]
Join the people on the dole
They lost interest years ago
What hope is there for you and me?
If this is our society?
[chorus]
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8. |
Evolution
01:56
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Out in the garden there's a little white rabbit
Like Revlon torture for your clean little habits
As you wash your hair to keep it clean
You get to wonder why Vosene's green
And forget about the silent animal screams
Out in the garden there's a little white dog
Shampoo in your eyes like a burning fog
But it's tried and tested so you won't go blind
Animals killed for the good of mankind
For your shining hair so many have died
Out in the garden there's a little white cat
And you're catching cancer as you smoke that fag
"When will they find the cure?" you choke
When enough cats have died of smoke?
And they say that animals go for the throat
And the monkeys in the zoo they look so tame
In the name of science they removed their brains
To think that man evolved from this beast
Civilised savages down from the trees
The animals who run these laboratories
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9. |
Apathy
02:44
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[chorus]
Drink, sex, cigarettes
Ford Cortina, household pets
Bombs? War? Famine? Death?
An apathetic public couldn't care less
The public watches ITV
Reads The Sun drinks cups of tea
Two-star family stay content
Their lives controlled by parliament
Well Daddy's lost his job again
Because he never had no brain
He only lives to watch TV
His life controlled by apathy
[chorus]
The Russians seem so far away
The government seems to be OK
The papers never mention war
Cos the people that they cater for have got-
[chorus]
The things that you never knew were there
Or was it that you didn't care
The biggest problem face to face
An apathetic human race
[chorus]
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10. |
Rats
02:45
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A sense of enterprise is here
The attitudes that conquer fear
Stability togetherness
The feeling cannot be suppressed
Hand in hand we had our say
United we stand but so did they
Hands in handcuffs dragged away
To cheers of hate and victory!
[chorus]
We fought the city but no-one cared
They passed it off as just a game
The city won't stop till attitudes change
Rats in the cellars of the stock exchange
Co-ordination was not so good
But everyone did just what they could
Unarmed with inexperience
We had to use our common sense
"If you act like rats you get treated like this"
Said a policeman like we didn't exist
When the force of law has lost its head
The law of force is what you get
[chorus]
We fought their calculations
Money gained from third world nations
All that money spent on war
Could be used to feed their poor
The papers played the whole thing down
Said there was nothing to worry about
The rats have all gone underground
But we'll be back again next time round
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11. |
Joe Public
02:30
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Joe Public in an overcoat
A smile on his face and his fingers down your throat
Making you stick with his victory salute
Vs up for England or does he mean fuck you!?
If looks could kill he'd stare you into the ground
The flatulence of greed keeps his money going round
The smell of indigestion he's got cancer on his breath
Before he takes his mind away he'll take your self respect
Idiots and cowards don't vote or fight
Say your parents and the papers so they must be right
The leaders of the country don't do one or the other
They're too busy fighting against one another
Hey Joe! where you going with that census in your hand?
To make us feel important?
I don't think you understand!
You represent a public whose views are out of date
The generation gap caused by the crap you generate
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12. |
It's Gonna Get Worse
03:00
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I don't like the way I m living
No-one gives me any choice
You don't like the way I m singing
But all I got is my fucking voice
I can't get a word in edgeways
Surrounded by so many lies
They just treat us like subhumans
We're the people they despise
[Chorus:]
I m telling you it s gonna get worse...
Always rising unemployment
Always debates on nuclear war
Do you think that any government
Gives a shit what we stand for?
Sometimes you wonder what to do
When you haven't got no cash
Better start thinking what you'll do
When your country turns to ash
[Chorus]
You can blame the fucking Tories
Every government's the same
They don't believe in the public good
Just in their financial gain
Then the bastards throw you out
And take your furniture away
Cos you can't afford the rent
Unemployment doesn't pay
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13. |
Where's the Freedom?
03:24
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We're going backwards
Into the sin of self-neglect
What do we stand for?
It's very easy to forget
The protest marches
Is it the done thing to object?
So where's the freedom?
Your conscience hangs around your neck
Where's the freedom?
We're going crazy
With paranoia fear and greed
Accepting standards
Believing what we hear and read
And when we think we've sussed out a new reality
But is this freedom just another hand from which we feed?
Where's the freedom?
We're going nowhere
In vicious circles we gyrate
The new sub-culture
With cliches painted on their face
We cannot see past
The elitist barriers we create
We reject the system
But put another in its place
Where's the freedom?
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14. |
New Age
01:59
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So you're living in fast world
See the people you've already killed
See what you've done with that machine of yours
You can't justify it, you ain't got a cause
Chorus:
It's only cos we're living in a new age
You don't know what you're like when you're in a rage
They're gonna put you away in a cage
You better start to act your age
Victims running, they are screaming
Living nightmares, they're not dreaming
They're too scared to walk the streets
The one with a gun they're afraid to meet
Chorus
You know you're killing off the race
They'll lock you away and change your face
Hatred of the new age turned your mind
Can't bear to live with the rest of mankind
Chorus
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15. |
Businessmen
02:13
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Here comes the original businessman
He smiles at you as he shakes your hand
"Listen to me" - he's got a lot to say
But you don't understand
No, you don't understand
So you say "OK"
They'll do it once, they'll do it again
The world is run by businessmen
He takes your money, you take his word
He tells you things you've never heard
He says "Sign here on the dotted line"
But you don't understand, no you don't understand
But you think it's alright
He disappears for a month or two
He ripped you off and you dunno what to do
You'd take him to court but you don't know his name
Cos businessmen, yes businessmen are all the same
They'll do it once, they'll do it again
The world is run by businessmen
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16. |
Point of View
03:14
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Read it in the paper the other day,
But not the day before
Neither in the one that came after it
So it’s out of sight once more
Everyone says it’s too hot outside
And the canteen's gone downhill
The food ain't what it used to be
But I don't see 'em being ill
Get another point of view
What was it the paper said
Next to the topless girl?
Nowt but a picture of a starving kid
In someone else's world
Christ she looks almost anorexic
Give her some food before she dies!
In the macho banquet of anesthetic
Conscience starves as they feast their eyes
Get another point of view
The bigger the picture the more it drives
Images into the front of the mind
While the back dries up from the lack of ambition
To think beyond sex and social position
You have to look further if you want to see more
Then think a bit harder than you ever did before
If something is wrong and it makes you think twice
You've got the incentive to act
It’s your choice
Get another point of view
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17. |
Human Error
04:08
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There's a bomb going off in Belfast
There's a war in Vietnam
There's a T.V. documentary
To help you understand
But the other channel is better
Cos it doesn't tax your mind
Relax in the ignorance of your home
As man destroys mankind
And the rest of the world has gone to sleep
Because they couldn't care less
The world is going, so am I
It's such a bloody mess
There's an arms race in America
The race that no one wins
If somebody pushed the button
The accidental sin
Meanwhile baby wonders
"What's a nuclear war?"
And mummy says "to tell the truth, I'm really not quite sure"
And the rest of the world was ignorant
Because they weren't told more
The pamphlet said 'just stay at home
Avoid the threat of war'
The computer pressed the button
The rain was full of lead
And more bombs dropped on Belfast
And Vietnam went dead
The T.V. documentary
Outlined the possible cause
It was just a human error
Because man invented war
And the rest of the world has gone to hell
Because they never cared more
The children cried before they died
So this is nuclear war
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18. |
Animal
03:56
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Ever since they put you away
Things haven t been quite the same
They cut off all your lovely hair
And gave you a brand new brain
Sent you to university
'Cos that was the next step up
Studying sociology
They gave you a plastic cup
[chorus]
What happened to you with your brand new brain?
What will they do if they get you again?
Animal! Coming to get you!
Animal! Cos you went insane!
Your new brain was working really well
And they were satisfied
They thought they'd done a miracle
But you had something to hide
They left a bit of your old brain
Stuck inside your skull
That bit screwed up your culture
You became an animal
[chorus]
One night you were drinking
In the student bar
Two pints blew your animal mind
Your brain just went too far
The laughter turned to slaughter
You took all you could get
Now you sit alone in a disco
Smoking cigarettes
[chorus]
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19. |
Labels
02:41
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Call me punk cos I wear a leather jacket
Call me a hippie cos I believe in love and peace
Call me an idealist cos of songs like this one
You can call me what you like I'm all and none of these
[Chorus:]
Fix a label on me to keep illusions happy
Fix a label on me does it make you feel secure?
Fix a label on me to keep me at a distance
And I'll label you as ignorant not wanting to know more
Before we understand ourselves do we have to fight each other?
Before we share opinions must we keep them undercover?
We classify and categorize and keep ourselves divided
We are all individuals not the images provided
[Chorus]
Labels are a subtle way of keeping us in line
Divided by conformity we waste away our time
We are all individuals divided by these rituals
Think again like I have done--throw away the labels!
[Chorus]
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Reality isn't easy to define
Like turning water into wine
It's a dream of fact based on fiction
Everything you do has its restrictions
Everyone has their own definition
The record shops got plastic nutrition
Cos music is the food of love
But reality is waiting for a bus
[Chorus:]
And there's an A sign on the bus stop wall
But it's very hard to relate
To the bus work to keep in line
So who's gonna smash the state?
It's too easy to get cynical
And make the problem clinical
But in which direction do you turn?
Do you preach or do you burn?
Pamphlets blowing in the breeze
A mother on her weeping knees
"Reality" is on the news at ten
But the bus to work is late again
[Chorus]
So your reality is getting pissed
Avoiding a world that shouldn't exist
A world within your own sour mind
Where everything can be re-defined
"This is wrong"
"I don't agree"
"I can't accept the reality"
So why base your life on simple trust?
Is reality waiting for a bus?
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21. |
Mickey Mouse is Dead
03:22
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Mickey Mouse is dead
Got kicked in the head
Cos people got too serious
They planned out what they said
They couldn't take the fantasy
Tried to accept reality
Analyzed the laughs
Cos pleasure comes in halves
The purity of comedy
They had to take it seriously
Changed the words around
Tried to make it look profound
The comedian is onstage
Pisstaking for a wage
The critics think he's great
But the laughter turns to hate
Mickey Mouse is on TV
And the kids stare at the screen
But the pictures are all black and white
And the words don't mean a thing
Cos Mummy's got no money
And Daddy is in jail
He couldn't afford the license
She can't afford the bail
The kids out in the road
Their minds have all gone cold
Cos Mickey Mouse is dead
They shot him through the head
With ignorance and scorn
They believed in something new
They read the papers, watched the films
And thought they knew the truth
Look what you done to Mickey Mouse
But reality deceives
Whatever you believe
There's always another idea
And theirs is based on fear
The fear of being sussed
For what they really are
The fear of being laughed at
When they go too far
They call it paranoia
You can't laugh it away
Until you come to realize
Everyone's the same
People hide their problems
Under faces of contempt
They hide 'em, till it kills 'em
And no one is exempt
Not even you
Look what you done to Mickey Mouse
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22. |
Drugs of Youth
02:30
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Get away from the window
The D.S. are outside
The little packets in our pockets
Stuff we gotta hide
Sitting in a corner of a disco
Mouth stuck in a bag
It's hard to fake the high intake
It turns your brain real bad
Drugs of youth
Crush a barb put it in a syringe
Stick it in your arm
Let the feeling crawl to your head
It won't do you no harm
Sniffing sulphate up my nose
Doing it for a joke
It makes the world spin so fast
Things go better with coke
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23. |
Rain
05:40
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Well it's dark outside
And it's raining
And the atmosphere
Is like it always has been
Thoughts of revolution
How and why?
Just pass on by
Gloom and depression
Fake deprivation
"Well I got no money"
[Chorus:]
Are you depressive? or depressing?
Obsessive? Or obsessed?
Someone or no one?
Are you alive or dead?
Do you take your ideas
From other people?
Surrounded by boredom
You get boring
And then you start to enjoy it
Take all the plugs out
And sit in darkness
It's dark in your head
You're not alive any more
And it's raining
[Chorus]
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24. |
Peroxide
02:22
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Peroxide girl with a false ID
Lost and lonely she can t see
Peroxide hair and burnt out eyes
Blinded by so many lies
[Chorus]
Peroxide! Peroxide!
Because nobody cares
What do you do?
You dye your hair
Her hair was just a boring mess
She had never known success
Saw the punks they didn't care
Walked around with peroxide hair
[Chorus]
Now she s out of trouble cos her hair is white
And the punks all think she's all right
But she is blind her face is red
Peroxide soaked into her head
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25. |
Parasites
02:31
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The government are real good to us
They crowd in their shelters and let us die
The nuclear holocaust won't last long
White turns to black in the sky
[Chorus]
You build your demolition war
What the hell are you fighting for?
You keep your peace with the starving countries
The Cambodians have to be fed
But can't you see we've got our problems?
You're taxing us to buy tons of lead
[Chorus]
Labour can take the businesses over
Because they've got the workers' rights
A choice of three for democracy
And they're all parasites
[Chorus]
Parasites - taking over the country!
Parasites - taking over your home!
Parasites - taking over your mind!
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26. |
Reason for Existence
02:33
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What's your reason for existence?
Do you believe in anything?
Or does your lifestyle contradict
The words you write for the songs you sing?
Are you happy in your work
As you protest about the unemployed
You don t wanna work but you need the money
The reality you can t avoid
But do you wanna work for the money?
Do you wanna work for the system?
Are you happy as you vote
To keep the parasites alive?
You don t want to vote but you think you should
They said it was right and you never asked why
But do you wanna vote for your conscience?
Do you want to vote for the system?
Are you happy signing up
In the army just to get some pay?
Fighting a war without a cause
Can you manage to ignore your self-decay?
But do you wanna fight for your country?
Do you wanna fight for the system?
You're their reason for existence
They use you to finance their state
The words you shout with such conviction
Is it the only way to express your hate?
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27. |
Religious Wars
02:36
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Do you believe in the afterlife
Termination with a rusty knife
Religious wars no reason why
What a glorious way to die
[chorus]
In the name of God they left you to die
Religious wars there's no reason why
They left you to die
The ultimate excuse is here
Die for a cause, religion is fear
Fear of the threat of something unreal
Abdicate the way you really feel
[chorus]
In the darkness of death
There's no light in your eyes
A cross in your grave
Your time has arrived
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