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Disaster
03:51
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Call me Adam
Call me Eve
Call me Lilith
Call me naive, but
I am the contradiction you cannot conceive
I am the lie in everything that you believe
We'll build ourselves, we'll sew our own skins
We'll live our own truths in this "age of sin"
We refuse to play the games, and that's how we win
We're knocking at the door, so you'd better let us in
[sample]
And then there's the other lot, feminine homosexuals, who in fact it may not be good for them to become women. There's got to be a waiting period, there's got to be a sorting out. For the surgeons and the psychiatrists... make certain they're not bringing disaster.
We are your nightmare
We are your ruination
We are the bloodsucking parasites infesting nations
We are the saboteurs that eat away the foundation
We are the plague, the disease and the temptation
We are the faggots
We are the freaks
We are the poison that makes you weak
We are the changelings, the feminine mystique
We are the siren song, and, finally, we speak!
Are you ready? Let's do this...
I am suckling at the teat of your pride
I am a Satan, and you shall be my bride
You can run but there's nowhere you can hide...
Does it hurt? I don't fucking care!
You're the one that cast me as this nightmare
We can do this here, we can do this anywhere...
Do you get it yet? I mean a revolution
THIS is your new God, so you'd better pray for absolution
I am the result of all this pollution.
I am the hangman, and this shall be your execution.
[sample]
You mustn't confuse the issue! You could act as a threat to those men who want to keep, as most men do, their maleness. And indeed, you could even act as a threat to women who want to keep their femininity.
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Hold the Centre
05:56
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Both sides! Both sides! I'll listen to them all
In the face of the besiegers I am straddling the wall
Left, right, up, down? All of these the same
For all the world's ills, we've you radicals to blame
"Tory scum"? "Tory scum"? What a shocking little show
You catch more flies with honey than the vinegar you throw
Ideals are unreal, so you'd better wait and see
Sit down with your Sauvignon. C'est moi, la bourgeoisie?
Ideological spinelessness will hold the centre
Communists and fascists all alike
Radical buzzwords will hold the centre
Walk straight ahead and don't look left or right
I'm the wisest politician because everyone is wrong
We're playing MOR, so everyone can sing along
We tread carefully with policy, the media's our guide
We'll know we've got it perfect when nobody's satisfied
Set aside your dreams and ignore your needs and wants
We're not the politics of possible, we're the politics of can't
Caution and bureaucracy! This is how we rise!
Representative democracy, just the wool over your eyes
The civil service will hold the centre
Walk straight ahead and don't look left or right
And civil discourse will hold the centre
Communists and fascists all alike
Ideological spinelessness will hold the centre
Radical buzzwords will hold the centre
The civil service will hold the centre
And civil discourse will hold the centre
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Oscar Wilde
04:48
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Say hello and good morning to the mums
Standing at the gate in the morning sun
A whispered scandal spreading like a hum
"Is it true they're teaching kids about grown-up fun?"
Sally's too young to know it
And Bobby won't understand
Jimmy can't learn how men love men and women hold each other's hands
We've got to do something
I hope it's not too late
It's overdue for revival: the new Section 28
Everything old is new again
Mummy's little boy won't be a queen
We'll protest here for hours, snow or rain
So Oscar Wilde, come and tell us where you've been
We thought you went away, but I guess you're back again
Not gay as in happy but queer as in fucked up
So wait, and watch, as we repeat the past
Keep the children clean and free from sin
If we try real hard, this time it'll last
We're never gonna let those fucking perverts win
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La Lutte Finale
06:11
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MK-Ultra
07:36
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Screaming when born to a world so cruel
Beaten to submission and then sent to school
Where we're taught from the start to do as we're told
And follow the rules if you want to grow old
We grow big and strong as obedient drones
In a world of certainty where all is known
And we follow the leader, it's a comfortable game
Twisting ourselves so we're all the same
And then the wealthy offer us a "dignity in work"
In mindlessly serving the Mechanical Turk
But we live inside cubicles, machines of meat
As gears and wheels our humanity is obsolete
It's a war of attrition for the heart and the mind
Day after day, the same fucking grind
As the mindless drudgery eats away at your brain
Repetition repeats, again and again
[sample]
An honest day's work for an honest days pay. Live within your means. Support the police.
We spend our pay on circuses and bread
Keeping us calm and not seeing red
Watching the news for a two-minute hate
But they'll get theirs, oh, just you wait!
As forests burn and oceans boil
As famine spreads on fertile soil
We sit, relax and smugly think
That these are depth to which we'd never sink
But backs are broken as the overseers thrive
And democracy LIES DYING if she ever was alive
With a bullet in each chamber and a finger on the polls (the pulse)
She bleeds out on the floor as her muscles convulse
It's a tacit threat, a final warning:
"Don't bother to organise. Stick to mourning."
Class war's a joke, so join their laughter.
The buggers won't die, so what are they after?
We don't need your education
To tell us where we should belong
We don't need your education
We'll teach ourselves of right and wrong
Repetition, repetition
Shaping us all into clones
We can build a new ambition
We'll make a new world of our own
[sample]
Margaret Thatcher knew that if you— (interrupted by rapturous applause)
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