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Open Your Eyes
03:37
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There's so much hatred in your mind
You’d like to change the humankind
The ideology has taken over
Your life and everything you do
Are taken hostage by these few
Ideas that are deeply stuck in your head
So many systems in this world – you want to fight
So many differences in us – tear us apart
Things aren't simply black or white – it's time to open up your eyes
Time to get real and realise
And every day you make new plans
Cause every day gives you a chance
To put things right just as you have imagined
They put ideas in your head
And you've heard and what you've read
Dig deeper, don't accept it on face value
So many systems in this world – you want to fight
So many differences in us – tear us apart
Things aren't simply black or white – it's time to open up your eyes
Time to get real and realise
Wake up – open your eyes
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2. |
Ordinary Man
02:11
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He works and he struggles but never achieves
Ordinary Man
Left with no more than his high hopes and dreams
Ordinary man
Ruling classes
Keep everything to themselves
Guarded positions
They won't share with anyone else
Another day starts and it's all just the same
For the ordinary man
He’s trying and striving but doesn't get far
He’s doing all he can
Certain positions
Are reserved for the few chosen ones
The power and status
They won't give it them up without fight
Raise your head, raise your head
Don’t just accept the state of affairs
Sharpen your senses, open your eyes
They don't give a damn about people like us
Stand against the oppressive state
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3. |
Newspeak
02:42
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The judge and the jury, the lawyer will make off me
The threat of a prison, is now very real
The freedom is speech, is the freedom to insult
I can’t help the way that you’ve decided to feel
If hope used to lie in the proles
Well now it’s entwined in the blogs
Histories marks are now censored satirists
Reducing our words, and leading our ignorance
We’ll have no emotions, only subjection
Telling the truth is becoming too dangerous
Being brought up, in confused condition
If hope used to lie in the proles
Well now it’s entwined in the blogs
Histories marks are now censored satirists
The words we all use, are our right to abuse
Protect yourself, protect yourself, protect your words and the context
Protect yourself, protect yourself, stay one step ahead of the conflict
Confuse their minds, confuse their minds, and use the language that fits you
And don’t lose sight, no don’t lose sight, never lose sight of the issue
If hope used to lie in the proles
Well now it’s entwined in the blogs
Histories marks are now censored satirists
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4. |
Unity
03:51
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Old school, new school, stop the arguing
Forget the divisions, remember your roots
Punks and hardcore kids together
Fighting the system for our own good
Where we come from, our history
The music, the passion, the fight and the sweat
Having good times in the moshpit
Those crazy moments we'll never forget
Community
it's for the community
And we're standing strong together in unity
Community
it's the community
And what brings us back together is our community
Every gig and every party
That friendly hugging and greetings with smile
Everybody knows each other
Those conversations and shaking of hands
Sharing passion for the music
The movement, the culture, the circle, the scene
Looking out for one another
Supporting your friends in a time of need
Community
it's for the community
And we're standing strong together in unity
Community
it's the community
And what makes us stick together is unity
Community
What we've really got is the community
Community
We're standing strong together in unity
Community
Community
Community
Community
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5. |
Be the Best
02:16
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Staring into the eyes of a nearly dead man
He’s coughing and wheezing and it’s done by your hand
Blindly following orders, is that really being the best?
I’ve seen you piss on dead men’s heads
Here’s the instrument of oppression, the plaything of the elite
Camouflaged mass muscle march to ministerial beat
Death sold to us as defence, the violent docile masses
Necessary armed and dangerous
A soldier will kill you if he’s told to
Let’s all get behind this nationalistic craze
Compare everything to soldiers, be compelled to be amazed
Let’s destroy the defenceless, kill one, kill two, kill all
Is it really any wonder we’re abhorred?
Here’s the instrument of oppression, the plaything of the elite
Camouflaged mass muscle march to ministerial beat
Why put on the symbols if you’re not afraid to kill?
To celebrate extinction through rose tinted spectacles
A soldier will kill you if he’s told to
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Do you want to allow yourself to be electrocuted, beaten down and cut open?
Shackled ankles, hands in chains, stripped and searched, property seized with no reason.
No suspicion, no evidence against you
Taken in an unmarked van, to be turned to an unperson,
Kept in rooms, on your own, under mental duress,
Now you no longer believe, what you thought you’d believed.
If we allow torture, the criminal won’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
If we bestow a death sentence, the paedophile won’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
If we allow secret trials, the terrorist won’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
If we give up our rights, then no one will win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
Why would you want to give up your rights?
Is it through fear or PR machinations?
Media Circus got your brain?
Who do you think they’re trying to control?
If we suppress our dissenters, extremists won’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
Lower the burden of proof, the deceitful won’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
Disallow some men the vote, so the stupid can’t win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
If we give up our rights, then no one will win
But the Government wins, because we’ve given in
Why would you want to give up your rights?
Is it through fear or PR machinations?
Media Circus got your brain?
Who do you think they’re trying to control?
If you never question authority, be prepared to live in fear
Fear of busses, trains, shops, planes and people standing near
Just imagine all those threats and your subconscious makes it real
Who needs terrorists now they’ve controlled how you feel?
Human rights are a sheath on the sword of Damocles
A last line of protection against a biased weighted system
We must fight to the death, we must fight to the death
Because it’s us that they want to control
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7. |
Famous for Nothing
01:48
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She wants to be famous
Whatever it means
The money, the glory,
The manic crowds' scream
She wants to be famous
Whatever it takes
She wants to be famous
He wants to be famous
Whatever the score
He wants to be famous
While asking for more
He’d do anything
For popularity
He wants to be famous
His pictures in tabloids
His face on TV
He wants to be famous
Whatever it means
He wants to be worshipped
He wants to be known
He wants to be followed
Has nothing to offer
No talent, no skills
Just pure egocentrism
No hard work put in
Emerged as a star
In reality show
For being a tosser
Our World
Has gone completely mad
It makes me sick,
It makes me angry and sad
You want to be
Famous for nothing
And you have nothing
Nothing interesting on offer
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8. |
The Modern World
03:02
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Just take a proper look at our modern world
How wonderful it is with so much to explore
Come on, let's take a ride and let me be your guide
Make sure you pay attention to achievements of humankind
The modern world
So let me introduce you to hunger, war and pain
1% of population owns 40% of wealth
This inequality is hard to understand – I know
Greed driven exploitation of our natural world
The modern world
Growing population
Dying from starvation
Children with no future
What is the solution?
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Money keeps a man in power, and makes evil of good people
And a man with no emotion is the biggest evil of all
Greed, insatiable greed, it’s not the root, it’s the seed
They sow their seeds on all your hopes and dreams
The moustache and monocle chill my spine, more than a criminal every time
The pen and the check is his weapon, and his signatures his sign
People want to be him and to emulate his plans
While the carrot dangles further from your tired blistered hands
We lost our way, we’re getting screwed, and we’re watching fellows fall
That we enabled our recession the biggest crime of all
Leaving our money in the system makes them more and more and more
While people waste their days in hope, for that one massive windfall
With our essentials getting scarcer and our luxuries extinct
We could take the power back if we’d only stopped to think
Find every card you own every bank account you can
Go from Black to Red to through overdraft, for each and every man
Hang on to everything you’ve got, don’t let them have the chance
To wallow in the muck of avarice
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10. |
The Yes Man
02:09
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You have to understand, the importance with which you sold yourself,
There’s a broken string where your spine used to be,
Lies damn lies, I bought them, Lies damn lies, I bought them,
Allowed myself a dream of better things
I bought them, Lies damn lies, I bought them,
At least a drunk could stand up for himself
Eraser manifesto, recycle all your promos
Cower under the blue banner now the yellow banner is cowardice
Rose garden handshake time-bomb, given pretence of power,
A conman in a suit and tie
Career politician, with no cause left to fight
At least a drunk could stand up for himself
Lies damn lies, I bought them, Lies damn lies, I bought them,
Allowed myself a dream of better things
I bought them, Lies damn lies, I bought them,
At least a drunk could stand up for himself
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Manifest Manchester, UK
Manchester Hardcore Punk band Manifest. Brought together by commonality, motivated by malice and held together by conviction, Manifest are Old Core Hard School Punks with a Heavy duty sound filled with explosive vocals and strong string and stick work.
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