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1. |
Expect a Crimewave
03:45
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Electoral fraud
And tax evasion
Outright lies
And fabrication
Backhanders to chums
Diddling the sums
Seems to me it’s a... ‘crimewave’
Broken promises
And worthless doublespeak
Once the people’s saviour
Now corruption at its peak
Expenses fraud
And arms sales abroad
Vested interests
And a chance to be a lord
Tax cuts for
the wealthy
And privatisation
that is stealthy
Failed at life
But minus the strife?
Don’t worry dear,
We’ll make you a peer
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
Expect a crimewave, expect a crimewave!
X2
They’re the real criminals
The real benefits street
We subsidise their lifestyles
Working to keep them sweet
They'd have the shirt off your back
And make you beg for your dinner
You've got the rules wrong
We can't all be a winner
Swanning and swindling and
Riding the gravy train
Getting caught makes no difference,
It's simple and plain
They're hooky, they're crooked
They're as bent as a two bob note
And all they do is grin and gloat!
When you want someone banged up
For going on a bender
But you're all out boshing coke
Top wage and big spenders
When you block legalisation
For cannabis production
But your husband owns a ganja farm
With no obstruction
We'd lose our rights,
Zero hours or benefits claim
They'd file for more expenses
'Cause they've rigged the game!
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
Expect a crimewave, expect a crimewave!
X2
So get out there and do some crimes
Obeying the law is not a sign of the times
Be dishonest, embrace corrupt
It's one-up for me, let the streets erupt
Why should we not make up our own rules
When a moral compass is clearly for fools?
We can decide what to do with our own life
No one should be surprised that crime is so rife?
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
One rule for them and another for us
Expect a crimewave, expect a crimewave!
X2
When you can't remember
Owning extra houses
When you can't remember
If you cheated on your spouses
When you talk about
Being guided by God
But your husband has investments
In missiles, the sod
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2. |
Mind the Gap
03:50
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Pass me a vol au vent darling
This shabby chic is so delicious
A soirée at a food bank
It’s so edgy and nutritious
These canapés really are scrummy
Oh to see how the other half live, it’s so funny
Those two smelly chaps are game for a fight
Such attention to detail, oh what a night!
There’s two types of banks currently in use
Filled with tins of food, or cash-moneys profuse
The poverty gap is widening and no one seems to care
Rising cost of living, for some it’s a mare
Some are rewarded, while others find it grueling
It might be less for nice teeth and private schooling
Maybe not everyone makes top brass
But we’re all encouraged to join the parasitic class
Mind the Gap
It’s getting bigger every day
Mind the Gap
It’s getting worse in every way
Mind the Gap
You’re not invited to the buffet
Mind the Gap
But you’re expected to fucking pay
They sold you the dream, got you hooked up on that fix
Now you know no better it’s time for some new tricks
Back to the workhouse to get a crooked stoop
Got three jobs and kids paying in to the coop
No time to protest or have a moment of fun
Just binge on a box set when your day is done
Financial growth’s a disease the gap’s increasing
It’s the bottom feeders these predators are fleecing
But I adore giving to charity
It’s more than just a tax write-off
I’m as altruistic as the next man
And wash down guilt with the drinks I quaff
Don’t hate the player
Hate the game
If I didn’t take advantage
It would just be the same
And you would still have to…
Mind the Gap
It’s getting bigger every day
Mind the Gap
It’s getting worse in every way
Mind the Gap
You’re not invited to the buffet
Mind the Gap
But you’re expected to fucking pay
Listen, chums
It’s simply a matter of breeding
Everyone in their place
Is what you should be heeding
It’s long been like this
Don’t take it the wrong way
Oh, and here’s the bill
It’s for you to pay…
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3. |
Hands Off Our NHS
04:22
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It's not up for grabs, not up for sale
Given time we'll all become frail
Don't make out it's a financial drain
When Big Pharma backhanders is the strain
We paid for it in taxes, it's ours to keep
Stop the dismantling and selling off cheap
You can keep your trans-atlantic deal
The US model has zero appeal
Don't make profit from our pain
It's a safety net and we all gain
Private healthcare is unwanted stress
Hands off our NHS!
Society is designed to make us ill
So they can sell us drugs when we’ve been through the mill
It sounds shady to me I must confess
Hands off our NHS!
A typical rundown of charges for privately run healthcare insurance in the US:
$40 for holding your baby after giving birth
$40,000 for a hip replacement
$367,000 for surgery and a two-week stay
$153,000 for treating a rattlesnake bite
$300 a month to receive insulin
643,000 people go bankrupt each year, because of medical bills
We can't afford to be ill with prices like this
You want this from us? You're taking the piss!
Don't make profit from our pain
It's a safety net and we all gain
Private healthcare is unwanted stress
Hands off our NHS!
Society is designed to make us ill
So they can sell us drugs when we’ve been through the mill
It sounds shady to me I must confess
Hands off our NHS!
We're not the only country with state healthcare
It's not communism, just playing fair
Take a look at a US treatment bill
One small slip and it's a bitter pill
Why would they sell off the NHS?
Let's have ourselves a little guess
Could it be based on some private interests?
What portfolios do MPs possess?
Back in 2014, 1/5 of coalition MPs had links to private healthcare firms: Jeremy Hunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Fallon, David Cameron, William Hague, Andrew Lansley, Liam Fox, David Davis and many more have shares or links to private healthcare firms or have received payments, bungs and bribes from them.
Don't make profit from our pain
It's a safety net and we all gain
Private healthcare is unwanted stress
Hands off our NHS!
Society is designed to make us ill
So they can sell us drugs when we’ve been through the mill
It sounds shady to me I must confess
Hands off our NHS!
From Botswana, Kuwait, Iceland to Brazil
You’ll find countries that look after their ill
Portugal, Canada, Sweden to Cuba
For a similar system you don’t need to look far
Don't let the UK go the same way
As Paraguay, Jordan or the USA
It's our NHS and we already pay
Universal healthcare is here to stay!
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4. |
Self Destruct Nation
04:14
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Patriots are cozying up to privileged nonces
Carving up the country is one of their main responses
Attacking your own people should be the highest form of treason
Now you're voting them up and giving them more reason
Listen luv – opening your own cute coffee shop where you whinge about having to pay your staff minimum wage does not make you the capitalist class…
It makes you a selfish cunt!
Listen mate – starting your own building firm and begrudgingly employing foreigners coz you can pay them less doesn't make you part of the elite…
It makes you a selfish cunt!
The Bullingdon club work for their chums in the city
Leave us fighting for scraps – oh no, it won't be pretty
The media sets us against each other
Keep an eye on your neighbour – they're not your brother
The electorate is convinced they're a superior class
By owning a poxy business, that's not sitting on your arse
You've nabbed a dingy flat under buy-to-let
Well that's you in the club then – you're all set!
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We turned our land into a sea of blue
Making Britain great again, but not for me and you
We don't blame those who make the rules
Only others who obey them
We don't look at where the money trail goes
Taxes to the Caymans
I don’t do politics, they’re all the same
Don’t like Corbyn, doesn’t play the game
Besides, we’re in the aspiring classes
And Jeremy’s got fucking wonky glasses!
Our blood, it's OUR blood
You know – pure British blood!
The one made up of Celtic, French, Norman, Viking, and Germanic blood
But now we've had all them, coming over here and strengthening the gene pool, we're shutting the fucking door son!
We're British – we're proud Brits, we don't need some Euro-twat running our country. We've got homegrown sociopaths who’ll do that for us, British style – with Yorkshires and gravy on the side!
I'm so patriotic!
I'm gonna punch myself in the face
I'm so patriotic!
I'm gonna shit on my own doorstep
I'm so patriotic!
I'm gonna sell off what my taxes pay for
I'm so patriotic!
I'm gonna be ruled by British tyrants
(none of that foreign muck)
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We’re a nation set to self-destruct
Two steps backward until we're fucked
We learnt to bow before our media kings
Old man Murdoch always at the strings
We’re a nation set to self-destruct x4
It’s an extended game of Where’s Boris and the UK is the venue
You can be sure that aged gammon is still very much on the menu
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5. |
No More Normal
03:48
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The sickness arrived long before the virus
An insane system with profits to inspire us
It’s dog eat dog in a race to the top
Chasing numbers or you’re in for the chop
To keep a roof overhead you’re called a hero
But being paid in praise is close to getting zero
The top tier chase risk until it’s risky
Then demand a bailout and sit back with a whisky
The cracks in the system have now been exposed
The path ahead lays open, where once it was closed
People were encouraged to prepare for the worst
But mutual aid was the rescue – putting people first!
No more
No more
No more
No more normal x4
It shouldn’t be normal for people to be sleeping on the street
Or underpaying care workers, the ones who take the heat
It shouldn’t be normal for landlords to take the cream
You’re struggling to cough up cash and they’re living the dream
Why do they make cannon fodder of those in poverty
And others hoard wealth – our labour is the commodity
This mongrel nation wanted to tighten border control
But those people are saving our arses and taking the toll
We have to see the positives, it’s not all doom and gloom
Work together to break the code, we can mushroom
Send our spores out into these new winds
The past mistakes and greed we can rescind
No more
No more
No more
No more normal x4
We need to make the first moves in this game
Build our new world, not return to the same
Look out for each other and don’t be a snitch
You’ll end up a tool for the state, instead be the glitch
We won’t wait for leadership we’ll organise local
We’ll take the reigns in our hands and make ourselves vocal
We were told that change was impossible
Disguise the limits – now is anything possible…
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6. |
Thoughts and Prayers
04:44
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Well here we are in the 21st century
They’ve created such a world for you and me
Oh Lord on thee our hopes we fix
Strike the domain of heathens and sceptics
Heretics, the damned and the doomed
In the fires of hell they will be consumed
For those folk whom God’s path they choose
There is a better way to wash away your blues
Thoughts and prayers will get you through the day
And keep all the world's problems at bay
All are welcome in god's church to stay
Unless you're a woman, muslim or gay
Thoughts and prayers will get you through the day
And keep all the world's problems at bay
I wouldn’t leave your kids with them to play
The vulnerable and gullible is their prey
Nourish yourself on thoughts and prayers
Nom nom nom nom,
It's thoughts and prayers
Paying my bills with thoughts and prayers
Getting through life with thoughts and prayers
X2
Give us your money
Give us your money
Give us your money money
X4
Don’t introduce gun control
Just ignore the constant death toll
Don’t release those files on peado rings
Hide the dossiers and other things
Don’t curb your foreign policy
It’s far from Christian, honestly
Don’t feed the homeless and the poor
And don’t forget to close the door…
Who would have thought in this here modern age
That we’d turn to fiction, not turn the page
After all it’s not our problem it’s theirs
Coz we rely on our
thoughts and our prayers...
Nourish yourself on thoughts and prayers
Nom nom nom nom,
It's thoughts and prayers
Paying my bills with thoughts and prayers
Getting through life with thoughts and prayers
x2
Give us your money
Give us your money
Give us your money money
x4
Oops, your kid died without inoculation
Oops, millions dead due to starvation
Oops, a lone gunman in the school yard
Oops, catholic priests leaving kiddies scarred
Why don't you climb up the steeple?
Throw yourself off to save the people
X2
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7. |
Dial 1312 for Murder
04:39
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Stooges of the state
With no say in the proceedings
Start with good intentions
Then leave suspects with bleedings
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
“I’m just doing my job” they say
Persecuting people for some pay
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
What is a legitimised use of force?
The odds are stacked against us, the problem lies at source
Classist targets and racial profiling
Low-income felons they are stockpiling
Protecting private property? Let’s get it straight
They won’t protect communities, just gated estates
But if there’s a demo or a fox hunt to protect
They’ll appear in droves, live and direct
Stooges of the state
With no say in the proceedings
Start with good intentions
Then leave suspects with bleedings
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
“I’m just doing my job” they say
Persecuting people for some pay
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
Always nabbing protestors or anti-fascists
Supporting the far-right whenever there’s clashes
Protecting the rights of bankers to exploit and skim
Protesting an injustice? You’ll be out on a limb
They’re just not here to serve normal folk
200 years plus, it’s a long running joke
Get yourself a real job lads and lasses
Instead of being a traitor to your classes
Stooges of the state
With no say in the proceedings
Start with good intentions
Then leave suspects with bleedings
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
“I’m just doing my job” they say
Persecuting people for some pay
Dial 1312 for murder
Dial 1312 for murder
They say it’s policing by consent
Harassing people in order to pay their rent
Cops only have power because we say so
They’ll answer to us at the end of the day so
Don’t obey orders above your own ethics
Groveling to our leaders, it’s pathetic
Legality is not a guide for morality
Let’s learn from our history, adjust our mentality
Keep your eyes peeled, for the Peelers
The world’s longest running gang, putting out feelers
Here the private police force has strong roots
Soon you’ll answer to G4S and Serco’s boots
The fuzz are just puppets of the ruling elite
Protecting property first before people on their beat
If we stand together us they won’t defeat
So let’s clean up the filth off the streets
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8. |
End Humanity Now
04:33
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End – humanity – now!
Nothing good to say, we've had our day
End – humanity – now!
It's the end of the road and we blew our load
End – humanity – now!
Why go on like this, we're a fucking cyst
End – humanity – now!
It's just take take take, give the planet a break
End – humanity – now!
x4
Human beings are a stain on this planet
In a blip on its timeline and we’ve damned it
Rubbing against nature like cheese and chalk
We’ve shafted our ecology, no time to talk
It’s not just us that live on this earth
But it’s us who rob it for its worth
We pave the planet and pollute the air
Driving up sea levels without a care
We’re biting the hand that feeds us
If the world were a spot then we’d be the puss
Every day 150 species become extinct
We abuse our home, are these things not linked?
The industrial revolution spiral out of control
A hunger for growth and gadgets became our goal
There are some solutions but they’re often suppressed
Where the fuck next is anybody’s guess!
End – humanity – now!
Nothing good to say, we've had our day
End – humanity – now!
It's the end of the road and we blew our load
End – humanity – now!
Why go on like this, we're a fucking cyst
End – humanity – now!
It's just take take take, give the planet a break
End – humanity – now!
x4
Wha’cha gonna do
Wha’cha gonna do
Wha’cha gonna do
When it comes for you?
x3
End – humanity – now!
Nothing good to say, we've had our day
End – humanity – now!
It's the end of the road and we blew our load
End – humanity – now!
Why go on like this, we're a fucking cyst
End – humanity – now!
It's just take take take, give the planet a break
End – humanity – now!
x4
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
X2
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Killdren Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK
Killdren are a two-bit rave-punk band with a smelly attitude who hail from Tunbridge
Wells.
Sitting uneasily between straight-up nihilism and fresh-faced naivety,
Killdren pen politically charged slapstick anthems.
They form the ideal soundtrack to the worst generation in history.
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