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We're wolves and lions under the weasels rule
And the sad truth is that there's nothing that we can do at all Cause we all got problems, we all got bills, whether your freezing cold all day on site or pushing groceries through tills
I lace up my boots and walk to the call centre everyday, you're not suffering alone, there's no such thing as you and me Same people, same struggle, stress, no money and heartache, always wanting to be the one who gets lucky and breaks away
But I don't think that we are finished yet Isn't it better to wear you scars with pride, that drown in regret? How we gunna build a better generation if we roll over and die? There will be casualties for sure, but it's time to form square don't stand in a line....You might make it out alive
We’re desperate cheaters liars and thieves But that’s not all we’ll ever be and then you’re just looking skin deep And that really is no way to live Sure pride comes before a fall like effort comes before reward If there’s one thing that you can be sure You gotta jump if you wanna soar So what’s your problem? Make it heard Light a match And let it burn Walk through walls Don’t be deterred Be your own watchman Own your word And make it iron To forge a sword And carry it down to the front We’re the light brigade Your cannons don’t Mean anything At all to us
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Therapy
02:29
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I don’t wanna go to therapy I’m not a ward of the state so you can’t make me And I don’t even want a pepsi Unless it’s topping up my whiskey
I don’t wanna go to therapy I might run away so you can’t find me If nothing else at least I’m functioning And we’ve had our fun with the sectioning
I don’t mind just wasting time Time spent wasted is also fine And that really is the bottom line And I can’t fail if I don’t try
I don't wanna go to therapy
My best interests don’t interest me Pandora’s box best left untouched I spent six designing the lock I don’t wanna go to therapy You can’t challenge my beliefs If I can keep what’s mine to me There’s half a chance I’ll be happy I don’t wanna go to therapy I’m not a ward of the state so you can’t make me And I don’t even want a pepsi Unless it’s topping up my whiskey I don’t wanna go to therapy I will run away and you won’t find me Don’t even speak I’m not listening At least I am still functioning
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One Way Ticket
03:26
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Everyday i can’t believe How many people want something from me And I don’t need them Giving all I can and then giving even more till I bleed And it’s bleeding me dry Wanna see a magic trick I’m gonna just up and disappear Stage right quick curtain Leave it all behind Join the the circus Or the foreign legion One way ticket
Validate me... Heading for a cliff edge Got a knife I’m holding Right against the breaks Wild card bitches Taking liberties Till there’s not a Single thing left to take Tell my wife I... Piling on the pressure Don’t be surprised When the levee breaks It rained all night and Disable all my morals Pull the pin On every single fail safe One way ticket... Who are we? We’re the forgotten kids of history Stranded between two centuries Our relevance left in the 70’s Who are we? We’re the perfect casualties Mistakes, ingrates and abnormalities Transient like a breeze through the trees Who are you? If we don’t care then why should you Your moral code could be construed As an affront to our freedom to lose
You’re the fuckin enemy And I’ll fight for my freedom to be You’re the fucking enemy A prefect disgrace a beautiful disease You’re the fucking enemy I’ll be the worst me I can possibly be You’re the fucking enemy And I’m you and you are me You’re the fuckin enemy
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Stone The Crows
02:48
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You ain't never going to achieve the american dream on the streets of london theres too much CCTV The government knows what you had for breakfast
And even if you play it straight you're only ever one bad move away from it all crashing down anyway, so why not take the gamble?? But remember You should only ever ruffle feathers If you've got the stones to kill the birds Dont act the matador If you wouldn't fight the herd You ain’t never gonna be all you can be In this crab bucket they love familiarity The lessons they teach you Should not define you And if you flick the page and don’t read the book You’re not worth a cheap shot, You won’t slip the hook Disappear like rain, rolls down a window Did you live a life that beggars belief But your stories aren’t yours You don’t own your history So shut your goddam mouth up And if knifes for backs how it’s gonna be Then where’s your honour? What happened to integrity? Just what the hell happened, to family? We don’t need destiny or fate dont get what you deserve You get what you take They lie to you Kismet or fate Don’t get what you deserve You get what you take
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Walking Betrayed
01:23
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I sit alone and taste my failings In my mouth, it tastes like blood Like stagnant, toxic words that are still begging to come out
But like napalming scattering rats it would do more harm than good The flames would spread out of control much faster than they should There's friends who say they're here for me but what exactly does that mean? They're there unless it inconveniences them, and as long as their hands stay clean. For lovers, friends and family I've devised, I've warred and fought I feel like the walking betrayed, but dont feel worthy of the thought My eyes are wide open and my synapses explode I no longer worry about peace or love They're meant for others in the show One man's lullaby is another man's scream I suppose it's up to you if your life is a nightmare or a dream That's an easy thing to say I suppose if you're not struggling to breathe The water passes your over your top lip and nostrils And you pray to Angel's for reprieve I'd love to say I'd be there for you when you're waste deep in quick sand I'd love to be the one to yank you out and offer you a hand
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Black Widow
02:14
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She’s a shapeshifter A chameleon Collecting bad karma Like metal in a thunderstorm
She’s a knife edge Like a scorpion The only stinger is Is that she’s just a bad person
Psycho drama Is her specialty Makes me wish that She didn’t have time for me
She keeps her friends close Just like her enemies Try to be her lover And you’ll end up a casualty
Oh, no Black widow When she bites it cuts down to the bone Oh no Black widow
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Your fragile ego won’t survive The coming battle I won’t lie It’s ragnarock and roll so now It’s time to choose your side Your better pissing out than in But patience now is wearing thin The greater good is something That I might just sacrifice So you don’t pay for your free ride But debts build up and don’t subside Your lifestyle is becoming Pretty hard to subsidise Just one more time for the old times Three more chords in double time But that shits getting old I start to think that you really wanna die Swear to god don’t push me now I ain’t got time for me and mine Let alone for your design I’m clock watching now all the time Patience heavy tested fine Your tissue thin shit web of lies Is rusting over oxidised I could kick right through If I tried push me now and I will try
Do you think I might just try? It wouldn’t take much I won’t lie Coffee laced with cyanide Line cleaner or cut your break lines Let me know and I will try One more time and I will try Fact of it is I never tried But I really think you want to die Don’t you wanna push me now?
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Crossroads
04:17
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Deals With Devils
02:02
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When I'm not making deals with devils
I'm fighting the demons in my head
I'm striking a bargain for a little more patience before before I lose my mind and someone's dead
I sold my soul for solace
I'm at a crossroads now and I got nothing left
I'm stuck here on this rock doing the Devil's work and until my debts paid off, I'm cheating death
I ain't no minor threat I'm a major promise
So don't stand there frozen in your field of horses
You might be lion
But I'm a starving hyena come to take you down
Your blood smells good
I'm here to drink it, here to rip you apart and take you down
I never wanted to be king of the jungle
Just a super natural force and to be left alone
So walk away now
You're only scratching the surface
If you carry on you'll hear the squeak of teeth on bone
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That Sinking Feeling
02:40
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All these people talking
Say they’re talking for the people
But the people only really want one thing
And that is for tomorrow
Just to be like today
Yeah I’m quoting Sam vines NACAB
But there’s safety there in fiction
And I wouldn’t trust the real ones
And I’m learning to distrust reality
Cuz privilege means private law
And right that is another one
this is our boots theory of inequality
So No more
Populism
And no more
The people’s voice
There are no good isms and you’re only making schisms
Literally none of this was our Choice
There’s no morality
We’re all rats stuck on a sinking ship
Steering us, insanity
We’re all rats stuck on a sinking ship
So we’re the chaff and we’re the needful
And at least they’re not deceitful
When they’re smiling, telling you that you are screwed
Cuz you’re too poor to be a Tory
And that applies to almost all’ya
And their biggest lie is saying that is untrue
So our futures are downgraded
But we’re so tired and so jaded
That we meet it with a sad resigned silence
When the sensible response would be
To promote them all to glory
Like they won’t promote us, beyond our competence
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11. |
Keep On Keeping On
02:50
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And we are All in this together And you are All my sisters and brothers Not asking much, Won’t mention love Just say that you should keep on holding on We’re a long way from done It’s not trivial For trivialising When fears and pressures Keep multiplying The expectations of modern life
Add up to a heavy load And it’s pivotal We’re not denying Cries for help Are not subsiding And our collective deafness Is just like handing out rope We’re all lost and damaged societys suicidal From the nurses at the food bank To the houses of our idols And rage in the red tops Sends us spinning violently Target some for sacrifices And they’re not picked randomly The papers are complicit And culture is a cannibal People staked our for the kraken While we roar like fucking animals can’t wash our hands of this We all share the hangman’s hood If this all ended wouldn’t miss it And I’d end it if I could
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Drifting
03:13
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Drifting,
I’m not sure I’m awake and
The prospect leaves me quite shaken
Some times are stranger than fiction
And this is one of them
Listless
Sequestered survival salvation
If you sink back into isolation
Perfecting procrastination
Drinking like an asshole...
Oh, not this, again
I got a problem with self medication....
Hey hey hey!
Stay away from me
Yeah get away from me
Don’t even wanna hear it get the god damn hell away from me
Stay away from me
Just get away from me
Just stay away get away get away from me
And everyone
Drifting,
The raft goes slow down the river
We got no trust in our skipper
One thing that’s never been clearer
Is we’re a herd for slaughter
Shambling
Blind killing the blind like they like to
Five o’clock each day we were lied to
If this is what it is then it’s spiteful
Might as well rip our hearts out...
Oh, not this, again.
You just can’t fix what is broken...
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13. |
Let's 'Ave It
03:05
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Just imagine for a minute That your light went out tonight
Would you look back with regret Or are you proud of your time?
Getting rid of the religion It's a crucial-fix
Because soon you'll be just dust and bone A footnote or a myth
Did you make your family name stronger? Or drag it through the mud?
Did you run from the trenches Or keep on fighting drenched in blood? Did you save the world and get the girl Or play it safe indoors?
Did you stare your enemies right in their eyes Or use a keyboard to fight your wars?
Wooooooah ah oooh It's gunna be alright Wooooooah ah oooh You can change it all tonight This ain't the last chapter of your book Ain't down and out yet just take a look You're already hurting from the blows you took....SO LET'S AVE IT!
Did you stand out in direct sunlight, unafraid and unperturbed Or did you hide in the shadows of others, So that you wouldn't get burned? Do you plan on doing anything with the ideas in your head Or are your ideas just pipe dreams, living and dying in your bed? If you've lost all the games you played Now is not the time to be dismayed The future really is unwritten and time Is the only pen you need Don't worry about the others They will either hate or love ya And once you understand that You're invincible and free
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The Mistakes
A formidable 5-piece punk band from Poole, Dorset signed to Time & Matter Records:
"The Mistakes pride themselves on
frantic, super-charged memorable live performances. Their critically acclaimed recorded output incorporates punk ethics and ska influences.
Having released 3 ferocious, fun-filled, earworm chorused, zeitgeist lyrical social commentary albums, their fourth long-player is due 2023."
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