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Man Of The People
02:51
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I can see the smoke is clearing
The streets awash with contrition
Millions mourning, a dawning
Realisation of a yawning maw
Once through a screen so darkly
Now with shocking clarity
Jackboots over tarmac
The man is now our enemy
They said he’s a man of the people
They said he’s one of us
We ignored the offshore banking
Shady donations from provocateurs
Beneath his smile a grimace
A thick and viscous hatred
He cares not for his nation
Only the bloated power he wields
He’s not a man of the people
He’ll never be one of us
Just another sneering feeble
Man of means who stokes our fears
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2. |
Empire
02:42
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British Imperial reign
Four hundred years on the throne
Evil of the banal
Convictions of the obscene
Lay claim to Indigenous soil
Industrial ethnic cleansing
Decimate ancestral land
Co-opting and erasing
Villainy of Seven Seas
Pompous, articulate thieves
Made the world bend to our whim
feigned ignorance of all of our crimes
British Imperial reign
We asked the world for too much
No restitution, no fault
Asked all to forgive and forget
And when those who’d served to uphold
came asking for help in return
We turned our back on their plea’s
Stoked our people to hate and to fear
Diminished in our standing
This little island nation
Ideas above our station
Got a case of small man syndrome
Hangover a century long
The stench of our breath lingering
Historical oppression will haunt
That shit will catch us up in the end
Immigrant blood sweat and tears
Try denying their skin in this game
Just as much claim to this land
As your pallid complexion
Where we once spread, now withdraw
Threaten to round up, deport
Watch us entomb ourselves in
Wither away into nothing
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3. |
Humanity Is A Prejudice
02:06
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Unwilling instrument
Pulled against my will
Clawing at the walls
Desperate to stop
Wanting to get off
Grasping for purchase
See our felonies, passed as accomplishments
Stuttered apology, all accomplices
All this carrion
Gore barbarians
The world is bleeding death
Sobbing endlessly
Behold atrocities
Futile certainty
Nerve-endings exposed
Inconceivable
Panoply of pain
Semantic labyrinth
Cognitive bypass
Autopilot off
See our felonies, passed as accomplishments
Stuttered apology, all accomplices
Guilt ridden
Blood sodden
Despair barbiturate
Incremental sloth
A thousand paper cuts
Soon we’re drained bone dry
Spiralling decline
Another tired excuse
Grinning sycophants
Licking boot leather
Faecal Apostles
Chomping at the bit
“We were just following orders”
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4. |
Rupture The Routine
01:58
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5. |
London Town
04:01
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Roman settlement foundations
Plague pitted, fire singed, asthmatic
Dickensian gin soaked libations
Blitz bombed bloodied, yet still standing
London Town
London Town
Streets adorned with debris
Urgent sirens blaring
sodium vapour glaring
Bathing us in -
London town
London town
Night so shrill and joyous
Cacophony of voices
braille of the river
languages of
London town
London Town
Estuary twang cockney vernacular
Heady scents of piss and vinegar
The west ends orations oh so debonair
Whitechapel announces call to prayer
London Town
London Town
Choked out by the rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
Feverish developers
Chewing up
London town
London Town
Sourdough monopoly
Coffee shop lobotomy
Gentrify every inch of
London Town
This is where I live,
grimy yet vibrant,
Shabby yet engrained in me
I admire its tenacity
Chicken shop ossuary
Filthy lucre and poverty
It’s a puppet show monarchy
Strata layers of triumph and tragedy
London Town
London Town
Snaggletoothed foxes
Pigeon shit apocalypse
Green and splendid
Corridors of
London Town
Rain soaked nights, heat stroked days, commuter trains
Drunken chants, protest march, the end of days
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