1. |
The Strawman
03:48
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The Straw Man
Lauded all but canonised for service and self-sacrifice he held the crown
And no one paid attention as he moved around to
Pastures green but out of view, content to buy the picture that they knew so well
And all will say there was no way for anyone to
Tell no secrets but you live with a lie
Nobody wants to believe it so they turned a blind eye
And it all seems too much to contain
Drinks to forget while we’re washing the stains from our hands
Seems we don’t understand at all
Nobody gets that goodbye moment – Nobody gets to close that door
Everyone comes to burn down the straw man
Take them to pieces – watch them falling
One by one by one by one by one
Hiding in plain sight it seems, with promises of making all your dreams come true
He built a web so intricate that most of us were
Fooled and taken in at first and no one cared to hear the injured curse his name
And every institution holds a portion of the
Blame won’t help now the damage is done
They need a head to roll though the criminal’s gone
There’s no way to undo the pain
And everyone’s scared it could happen again and it may
When the decades have slipped away
Nobody gets that goodbye moment – Nobody gets to close that door
Everyone comes to burn down the straw man
Take them to pieces – watch them falling
One by one by one by one by one
Gold to buy the silence and the license to behave
Any way you choose to when your answerable you say
No one seemed to notice – Carry On
A thin veiled threat that he could take a few down
Maybe they hang their heads when there’s no one around
And it’s so hard to take it all in
Blind to the plastic celebrity grin that he wore
Now your medal means so much more
Nobody gets that goodbye moment – Nobody gets to close that door
Everyone comes to burn down the straw man
Take them to pieces – watch them falling
One by one by one by one by one
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2. |
White Light
04:17
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White Light
Here’s a heads up to all the kings and the queens
Who commissioned the script for the movie screen
Gave us a walk on part then they stole each scene
Moved up the hill – Now they’re living the dream
Outside – Inside – Inside – No light
White Sound – Outside – Inside – No Sound
No Light – Outside – White Sound – White Light
Inside – Outside – White Light
The green and the blues are mostly dead
So we’ll learn to embrace this grey instead
And the voice that chimes inside your head
Suspends you in the spiders web
Indifference is here to stay
It’s all but over anyway
And you can rest assured we’ll burn today
And come tomorrow we’ll hope and pray for the White Light
Blinded - Forever surrounded
The lights distract the noise gets in the way
We’ve been blinded – until we’re reminded
We’re caught up in an endless groundhog day
We’re competing – forever repeating
The same mistakes we all made yesterday
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3. |
Fuck You Goodbye
03:21
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Fuck You Goodbye
For all of the fire-bellied meatheads who think with their pricks as a matter of pride Fuck you goodbye
For those who profess that the market knows best then escape in the blink of an eye Fuck you goodbye
The closing bell chimes and a snowstorm of paper falls useless and empty
Reduced to the core of the lie
Fuck you goodbye
To those who suppose that their privilege makes them more valuable than you or I Well fuck you goodbye
To those who use fear like a hammer descending to silence the questioning mind Fuck you goodbye
The windows are thick with the filth of confusion
A glimpse of the sunshine dismissed as a trick of the light
So fuck you goodbye
And they tell us that we’ll be ok
If we’d only keep out of their way
Yes we’ll be ok
When we’re rid of them
And here’s to the fools in their feeble impotence
The idiots like you and I
‘Cos we don’t even try
While the keepers of secrets will suck away reason with disinformation
‘Til most of us simply comply
Well fuck you goodbye
All of you war makers, hyena risk takers
Pissing down from up on high
The lobbyist greasers – The “get me a piece”- ers
With fingers and thumbs in the pie
Collateral damage-ists, carnage apologists
Screaming an eye for an eye
The one percent wealth who can live with themselves
While the weak are left hung out to dry
Well fuck you goodbye
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4. |
The Same Mistake Again
03:13
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The Same Mistake Again
How does he learn to face the truth?
How will he learn to believe in you?
You turn and walk away
Try to convince you
You should stay
Try to make it all ok
And still you walk away
Someday you’ll break these chains
Evolve and grow into these years
Uh-oh, You know
You’re gonna make the same mistake again
Y’know
You’re gonna make the same mistake again
How does he spin your world around
Only to fail and let you down?
Repeat and play again
Why does he promise you the world,
Offering you the impossible?
The songs remain the same
Someday you’ll face your fears
Embrace them in your final years
Uh-oh, Y’know
You’re gonna make the same mistake again
Y’know you’re gonna make the same mistake again
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5. |
Miles Checks Out
04:03
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Miles Checks Out
With a heartbeat as loud as a metronome
He readied himself to jump
Staring ahead – No looking back
Wondering when he stepped upon the cracks that
Led him to think the unthinkable
And where the hell had it all gone wrong
Promises made – endlessly broken
Hoping to string the world along but then those
Thoughts still linger on
When Miles checked out
Too confused to think about the ugly consequence
He did all he could
Every last decision taken for the common good
When he thought about it
If he didn’t take a place before the race began
He wouldn’t even be an also ran
When they said he was unremarkable
It stripped the wind right out of his sails
How could he be anything else
With nowhere to turn when all else failed - he came to
Think that this was the inevitable
Whenever destiny rears her head
The fates had decided, his future subsided
Into some words best left unsaid
But still they echoe round his head
When Miles checked out
Too confused to think about the ugly consequence
He did all he could
Every last decision taken for the common good
And when he stopped to think about it
"If he couldn't play a part within the master plan
He couldn't bear to be an…
All so strange to feel a disconnection from that goldfish bowl
Everything he dreamed of was denied him
Rolled straight on by him
He stares vacantly at the seagulls crying beneath him
As they swoop under the steel of the Humber Bridge
Watch all of your dreams drift on by
Into the clear blue sky
So smile as you wave them goodbye
Then throw back your arms and fly
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6. |
Bright Spark
03:22
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Bright Spark
The autumn leaves are a joy to see
But never quite enough for me
Want so much more from my life
Want so much more from my life
A summer’s day of the dreams I made
Is never gonna make the grade
Want so much more from my life
I’m sick and tired of waiting cos
I don’t wanna be another - Don’t wanna be another
I don’t wanna be another - Not just another number
Blind lead the blind bright spark left behind in the dark
I’ll make my mark like a bright spark
I’ll take my fifteen minutes and
Burst into flight in a blaze of sunlight
And all who rejoice sing their hearts out tonight
Give me the platform and I’ll take your hand
I’ll guide you all across the land
Hang on to my every word
Hang on to my every word
Worship the rising of the setting sun
Step aside your time is done
Far and wide I will fly
Spreading this wisdom of mine because
Sing of the entity stood before thee
Of humble beginnings how I came to be
Don’t take this from me
Cos without your fake adoration I’ll never be free
Blind lead the blind
Bright spark left behind in the dark
I’ll make my mark like a bright spark
Make no mistake it’s mine to take
This is my chance my only chance
To share my pearls of wisdom
Don’t cast me out don’t push me back
This is my one and only stab
I’ll make my mark like a bright spark
I’ll take my fifteen minutes and
Burst into flight in a blaze of sunlight
And all who rejoice sing their hearts out tonight
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7. |
Deep Breath
03:56
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Deep Breath
Some called it reckless – They warned of consequences
Hard wired for helpless – Trapped by their own defences
Lets blame those ugly children
Wise words designed to make no sound at all
Where went those promises?
Who stole that book of dreams to come?
So flatline your senses now and turn
Before all the engines burn it all away
The harder they come, the big and the tall
The deeper the bed to cushion their fall
2-3-4 Deep breath
United we stand divided we fall
See the people cripple and crawl
2-3-4 Deep breath
Still you’ll get no satisfaction
We hide in smug superior
Then we light up the fires to fuel the cruel
Shame for the laissez-faire neglect
One more cog in a wheel of incompetence (to shield your eyes)
And I can’t get no satisfaction
And all they see glitter is gold for the fools
Like slaves to their own super-cool
The game is done the wrong side won
There is no change of heart to come
No last reprise no guarantees
You lost your voice when you disagreed
And all the rhetoric that got you in a spin
Will take away the only pot you had to piss in
And when the tables turn as far as you’re concerned
You’ll be the next in a line of weak they come to burn
All we listen for are bells to ring the changes
All we’re wishing for are better days to come
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8. |
Bricks From The Wall
03:11
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Bricks from the Wall
Get a message to the box men
Sick of hearing these lies
Tell ‘em make them in the millions
Best say I’m a medium size
Smile like a toothache spitting in the wedding cake
In a grimace you imagine means power
Picture for your bedside taken in a landslide
Give you comfort in your very last hour
Give you comfort in your very last hour
Somebody taught you take no prisoners
Somebody made you cruel
Your fire ignites more heat than there’s light
But you never run out of fuel
Soul searching is out of the question
So who will you answer to?
Can you taste that flavour
Like a relic from the past
Everybody on their feet now
Pin your colours to the relevant mast
Sell a promise on a long-term future
When you lay your draconian law
We’ll be there we’ll be building bridges
From the bricks that we pull from the wall
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
From the wall
Somebody broke into your gene pool
Robbed you of empathy
You speak like a child who’s un-reconciled
When there’s anyone disagrees
Soul searching is out of the question
So who will you answer to?
Make a little dysfunction
With a goodly brain
Take a message to your masters
Tell ‘em all how everythings gonna change
See the sickness coming to the surface
Looking back upon a glorious past
Dismiss this never existed
Looking for an enemy stepping on the gas
We’ll be coming at you hard and fast
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
From the wall
Was there someone let you down?
And the futures not what it used to be
Was there someone let you down, down, down?
So get a message to the box men
Sick of hearing these lies
Tell ‘em make them in the millions
Best say I’m a medium size
Sell a promise on a long-term future
When you’re laying your draconian law
We’ll be there we’ll be building bridges
From the bricks that we pull from the wall
We’ll be there we’ll be building bridges
With the bricks that we pull from the wall
From the wall
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9. |
Optimum Delirium
03:52
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Optimum Delirium
I’m on the run - I’m on a roll and I
Don’t wanna be in a gang no more
I don’t believe I’m going down again
I don’t believe the darkness will endure
So throw me out (cast me out now)
Into the ether (take a u-turn)
Into the void (set to zero)
I pick a door - I push it open
I jump into another brand new skin
I look around for some potential
The lights are on but there’s no one in
So throw me out (cast me out now)
Into the ether (take a u-turn)
Into the void (set to zero)
This is a blank page I’m starting over cos I’m
Clutching serenity
I don’t care if you wanna take me down again
Calm lights a fire in me
Optimum – Delirium
I’m turning ‘round - I’m on the move I
Don’t wanna dwell on the past no more
No axe to grind - no grudge to bear now
I catch a hand to get me off the floor
So pick me up (pick me up now)
And dust me off again (burn no bridges)
I’m not alone (we can make it)
I got you by my side - I’m on fire now
Static stagnation when your vocation is to
Amble on in the dead of the wilderness
Lost at sea – there’s no escaping it
Incarceration - When motivation seems to be untouchable
Hold on get a grip on reality
You gotta write the future
Everybody gotta write the future
Clutching serenity
I don’t care if you wanna take me down again
Calm lights a fire in me
Optimum – Delirium
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10. |
Push Repeat
04:31
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Push Repeat
She closed the window locked her door
Left a mess upon the floor
Television trapping dust in silence
Slow subsidence to obsolete
Lose the moment waste the day
To the wretched cabaret
Given over to a new excess
Distracts possess and encloses her
But she’s never alone with the world on the phone in her hand
(Small town – wide world connection)
And her Daddy complains its insane but he don’t understand
It’s a fix for the twenty-first century girl
See how she lives her life through the screen
Hooked on like its methamphetamine
Four hours a day - no break away
(Communication will be all machine based)
So come out and play - come stand in the rain
(I want to see your face)
When the music fogs his brain
He’ll push repeat and play again
Hit the bottle ‘til he’s all but blind and
Still he finds he’s not satisfied
He sucks the plastic cigarette
One more evening to forget
One more image to reduce debase
No warm embrace just the animal
But he’s never alone with the world on the phone in his hand
(Small town – wide world connection)
And his Daddy complains its insane but he don’t understand
It’s a fix for the twenty-first century boy
See how he lives his life through the screen
Hooked on like its methamphetamine
Praise to you Mr Zuckerberg
Seems we’re better connected now
But everybody’s gone broadcasting
And there’s nobody listening
Hidden here on the surface plane
Where reaction demands no thought at all
The conversations at an end
She checks for messages again
Looking forward to a sad conclusion
Misinformed and misunderstood
But you’re never alone with the world on the phone in your hand
(Small town – wide world connection)
And when your Daddy complains try explain but he won’t understand
It’s a fix for the twenty-first century
See how we live our lives through the screen
Four hours a day - no break away
(Communication will be all machine based)
So come out and play - come out in the rain
I want to see I want to see your face
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11. |
The Hand Moved
03:39
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The Hand Moved
The lights revolve and everybody turns away
A fabrication laid out on display
When the hand moves behind the throne
And all you see is all you’re shown
A fiction falls away and leaves a grain of truth
And those who can’t forget will cry for proof
When the hand moved behind the throne
The clocks were stopped and the page was turned
So lie down go back to sleep in the silence
On the scrap heap
Now they’ve really gone and set this up
Like some systematic losers cup
Where behind the smoke and mirrors
They breathe easy
Disinformation pumped into the atmosphere
A question still unanswered after years
When the hand moved behind the throne
The bets are off and you’re on your own
So lie down you’re plain mistaken
But you could fight back if you wanted
Now they’ve really gone and set this up
Like some systematic losers cup
There behind the smoke and mirrors
Where they’ve really tried to stitch us up
And all the commoners are left to rot
Look behind the smoke and mirrors
Where they’re wasting all of your time chasing spooks
You struggle to find some truth
But it’s out of your reach
So move on we’ve all been taken
And we could fight back
If only
Now they’ve really gone and set this up
Like some systematic losers cup
There behind the smoke and mirrors
Where the glitterati rules the day
While all the common people waste away
Look behind the smoke and mirrors
Where they breathe
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