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To Find a Little Bluebird

by Riot/Clone

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1.
Wake Up 02:30
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Wake up to your inner strength It’s been asleep too long Don’t just sit around and moan When you see something’s wrong Nothing ever changes If no one stands up to fight The liberties people took Are what we now think of as rights The rulers won’t give nothing Unless we take it for ourselves The alternative’s to live In their authoritarian hell The rest of your life getting up And doing work that you hate Don’t you think you owe yourself A more inspiring fate? The revolution is now The revolution is here It’s in your heart, it’s in your mind All that holds it back is fear It’s in the actions of humankind The revolution’s true Believe in your own strength The revolution is you Wake up to reality Nothing’s gonna improve If everybody sits around We’re all destined to lose Forget the empty promises The politicos’ lines Whether radical or mainstream They’re all neutered by design The parliamentary process Was designed to keep at bay Attempts by real people To have a proper say Revolutionary ideas Once in power will always wane It’s been proved throughout history And will be proved again The revolution is now The revolution is here It’s in your heart, it’s in your mind All that holds it back is fear It’s in the actions of humankind The revolution’s true Believe in your own strength The revolution is you Wake up to the cold hard facts Real change comes from below It’s the only way You’ll ever change the status quo Just don’t get caught And try to keep your name off their computers With enough concerted effort We’ll create a better future The revolution is now The revolution is here It’s in your heart, it’s in your mind All that holds it back is fear It’s in the actions of humankind The revolution’s true Believe in your own strength The revolution is you
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Think for Yourself 01:49
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So many opinions from far and wide The whole world wants to be your guide They’ll be your friend if you’ll be on their side They’ll promise you such splendour Take a step back and use your brain Are their words honest and plain What do they stand to lose or gain What’s their hidden agenda? Don’t let him or her or me Or anybody ever Tell you what to think Or what to do Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself No one else has got the same Experiences you do Draw on them to make conclusions Relevant to you Forget the conditioning learnt at school It’s right to question each and all To follow blindly is to fall Make sure their view’s dissected There’ll be surprise from some you spurn And those in uniform will never learn Respect is something that you earn Not a thing to be expected Don’t let him or her or me Or anybody ever Tell you what to think Or what to do Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself No one else has got the same Experiences you do Draw on them to make conclusions Relevant to you Make sure you take advantage now Of the info explosion going round If you look for the truth it can be found That’s why the system’s frightened For ignorance there’s no excuse The information’s so profuse Don’t let your brain die of misuse Broaden your horizons Don’t let him or her or me Or anybody ever Tell you what to think Or what to do Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself Think for yourself
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No More 01:10
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There’s too much pollution Too many streets Too many roads Too much concrete Too much hypocrisy Too much deceit Too much selfishness Too much conceit There’s too much hate There’s too much war Too much inequality Too many poor There’re too many uniforms Too many laws Too many don’t care Too many ignore Say no no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more There’re too many lorries Too many cars Too much foxhunting Too much shikar There’s too much slaughter Too many abattoirs Too many bad memories Too many scars Too much corruption Too many lies Too many whens Too many whys Too many real lows Too many bad highs Too much escapism Too many die Say no no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more Too many excuses Not to get involved Too many disagreements Staying unresolved So many people Not enough interaction So much talk So much inaction Say no no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more No no no no no no no no no no no no more
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Buy Me 02:27
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Buy me buy me buy me I don't care if I get grimy Go on Guvnor, oh cor blimey Won't you buy me buy me buy me? Told since young that to stand erect I would need a job for my self-respect They know best so it must be true That’s why I came for the interview It’s strange hours but I’m fairly strong Twelve hours a day doesn’t seem too long One twenty a week I can live all right DSS said so, they must be right Buy me buy me buy me I don't care if I get grimy Go on Guvnor, oh cor blimey Won't you buy me buy me buy me? Only last week I hurt my back But if I take time off I’ll get the sack For the moment I’ll struggle through Well, what else is a man to do? At least I’m not signing on like some Sitting all day on their lazy bums I work for a living and work makes me free I’ve got a future, can’t you see? Buy me buy me buy me I don't care if I get grimy Go on Guvnor, oh cor blimey Won't you buy me buy me buy me?
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Air Smiles 02:07
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The politicians sat around the table with their friends Smarmy captains of industry and some accounting pens They all had a problem with no solution in sight It looked as though the meeting would last way into the night The trouble was the Government had sold all that they’d took From the people over many years and now were going broke They’d been locked in for many hours and couldn’t find a way When someone stood, and in an excited voice began to say The answer as I see it is to sell something they need And make it seem like their idea to counter claims of greed Let’s pump pollution into the air ‘til people cough and wheeze Then once the smog gets bad enough they’ll buy clean air to breathe He stopped and cast a glance o’er the people sitting there Following a pregnant pause they all began to cheer The idea was so simple, it was the greatest scam Since the mass selling of arms to both Iraq and Iran They set to work immediately, car prices took a drop Carbon monoxide levels soared way over the top When the public clamoured for a fix to the pollution They started selling shares in the new Oxygen Commission They all came back to celebrate months later in the bar They’d all had doubts the public would let them go so far But shares had sold tremendously and no one seemed to mind Walking round like space explorers on this brown and poisoned land The moral of this story, just in case I’m being vague Is that relying on the Government’s like welcoming the plague Along with the industrialists there’s one thing on their mind How much they can screw you for, and that’s the bottom line
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Nowhere to Run 01:25
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They build out of town centres Close the shops in your High Street If you don’t have a car You’ll struggle to afford to eat Anything that looks as though It may threaten their hold Is bought up with their cheque books And brought under control Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide The corporations are marching Across the countryside Their trading with the third world Massively increases debt As they force down the buying price Of what they want to get They feel no guilt As long as their shareholders have their cake Leaving widespread tracts of poverty And famine in their wake Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide The corporations are marching Across the countryside Profit’s all important To their corporate mindset No thought for the individuals Their actions will affect If they can’t control something They’ll destroy it if they can Global domination Is their ultimate plan Nowhere to run Nowhere to hide The corporations are marching Across the countryside
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Student Drones 01:13
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Make sure there are no jobs Stop benefits for those leaving school Force them to take two more years Of indoctrinational bull Two more years of dependence Two more years to sap their fire Two more years to convince them To wait longer and aim higher To limit unemployment Was the original scheme It soon became a far more Ambitious dream They cut the grants savagely Knowing they would get A less rebellious youth Mostly crippled with debt In order to survive They have to take out student loans Leaving them firmly weighted Round the neck with a millstone No choice but to conform Work to pay the money back To keep at bay The ever looming spectre of the bank Industry enjoys The extra benefits they reap From an educated workforce They can employ on the cheap In a world where everybody’s Got a degree They become worth little more Than a CSE
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Capitalism 01:15
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Pollution in the air That causes danger every day White buildings rarely are They’re more a murky sort of grey Almost a thousand die each month From heart and lung disease As the poison gets transported Around the landscape by the breeze Nothing ever changes It’s easy to see why Profit before people Is the moneymakers’ cry Just look at the evidence You’ll reach the same deduction Capitalism means destruction! Food not fit to eat Through chemicals in pesticides Which find their way into rivers And the drinking water supply Toxic waste's still produced By the nuclear industry That only just survives Through Government subsidy Nothing ever changes It’s easy to see why Profit before people Is the moneymakers’ cry Just look at the evidence You’ll reach the same deduction Capitalism means destruction! We’ve only got one world Don’t let it be destroyed The earth is here for all of us To use and to enjoy They’re taking it away from us With their greed and corruption Capitalism means destruction!
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Taste 02:17
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Throughout countless centuries We’ve learnt to obey their rules And accept a ruling class Is necessary for us all To survive inside a system Based on inequality Where the rulers pay lip service To the myth of liberty Which they need you to believe in So you won’t try to attain Any personal autonomy They’ve no power to restrain We have to break this cycle If we’re going to survive Think for ourselves Take responsibility and control of our lives If history teaches any lesson It’s that passive acceptance fuels oppression The answer’s in communication Smash the state, unite the nation Every few years The politicians are in voice Re-enacting the democratic sham Pretending you’ve a voice That you can make a difference To your being with a vote While they ensure Policy making becomes ever more remote Every time they tell you They can solve all your hardships So you’ll delegate your life to them Through a voting slip Then sit down for the next five years Doing nothing but complain Until election time comes round And you do it all again If history teaches any lesson It’s that passive acceptance fuels oppression The answer’s in communication Smash the state, unite the nation
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Slave Trade 02:04
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Untold rules and regulations All of some sadist’s creation Work your way around their rota Become a statistic in their quota Listen to their eulogising Self-satisfied and patronising They pleasure in turning the knife Relish the control of your life It takes a social inadequate To do a job like theirs Someone who likes to dominate Someone who doesn't care They can tell you how to look and dress Can penalise you if they think you’re a mess Well practised in applying duress Slave traders of the DSS If you get an offer but don’t say yes They will take financial redress Don’t care what you need, they’ll make you take less Slave traders of the DSS Inspectors always on the prowl Trying to catch you falling foul Of some obscure law or statute If so they’ll be in hot pursuit The 0800’s advertised Recruit the public as their spies Thought police behind every door In their frontal assault against the poor It takes a social inadequate To do a job like theirs Someone who likes to dominate Someone who doesn't care They can tell you how to look and dress Can penalise you if they think you’re a mess Well practised in applying duress Slave traders of the DSS If you get an offer but don’t say yes They will take financial redress Don’t care what you need, they’ll make you take less Slave traders of the DSS
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You Can Make a Difference 01:11
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How many third world lives Have died for you today? How many kids went hungry To subsidise your pay? Look in your food cupboard Add it all up How much slavery it took To fill your coffee cup You can make a difference If you only stop to think You can make a difference Caring about what you eat and drink You can make a difference With everything you do You can make a difference To the world around you See the glossy adverts On the television screen Where everyone’s so happy Everything’s so new and clean If you buy their product Then you’ll never be sad If you believe a word of that Then you’ve been had You can make a difference If you only stop to think You can make a difference Caring about what you eat and drink You can make a difference With everything you do You can make a difference To the world around you Search out the alternatives To corporation greed Instead of feeding profits Feed someone’s need Their prices have been bought By blood and by guns Don’t support their exploitation Don’t let them have won You can make a difference If you only stop to think You can make a difference Caring about what you eat and drink You can make a difference With everything you do You can make a difference To the world around you
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Instead of a Title (by a man too lazy to think of one) 01:29
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I gave you no authority to dictate what I do Still you felt the need to impose your values as I grew From early days at school you tried to shape my every thought The importance of obedience the recurring lesson taught But your warped value system was ignored by me and others We rejected the standards that you tried to force upon us You're quick with “Do this, do that” but you’d never explain why The fact is that you couldn’t because the concept’s based on lies The ethics put together to serve only as a prop For a hierarchical system that keeps the power on top To restrain imagination, repress reasoned argument Take away people’s belief in their own judgement Now the tide is turning, less and less accept your rules We're no longer passive wage slaves being ordered around like mules New laws and regulations to keep people in check Will soon prove to elicit just the opposite effect Ignore their selfish maxims live by your own moral code Allow others the respect and freedom you’d like to be showed Communicate, co-operate, support each other’s stands Petty competition plays into the system’s hands Help build a counter culture where we’re all on the same side Where with every success we can all feel a sense of pride If our quality of life is ever going to be enhanced We'll have to stick together, just to get the chance
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C(r)AP 02:05
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Paying farmers to keep empty fields They get more money if they limit yields Mechanisation needs forced reduction To meet their targets for production People starving around the world And their only concern Is to keep the market prices up And maximise what’s earned It never occurs to them to grow Food instead of weeds The rules have been decreed By a bureaucratic deed That ignores people in need With surpluses another chance to earn By accepting cheques for making their crops burn The fire’s light glows a bright vermillion The colour of blood of starving millions People starving around the world And their only concern Is to keep the market prices up And maximise what’s earned It never occurs to them to grow Food instead of weeds The rules have been decreed By a bureaucratic deed That ignores people in need Marks, Francs, ECUs, pounds or krone Language loved by rich landowners Money for the rich no thoughts of mercy The effect of the Common Agricultural Policy People starving around the world And their only concern Is to keep the market prices up And maximise what’s earned It never occurs to them to grow Food instead of weeds The rules have been decreed By a bureaucratic deed That ignores people in need
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Falling on Deaf Ears Again 01:17
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Nearly twenty years of shouting the odds But nothing’s changed, if anything it’s got worse And people think the real power’s been diffused Are we the only ones to see That we are anything but free? The rulers still have their ivory towers And we’re all still abused I don’t claim all the answers I don’t claim second sight But if you don’t listen, think and question You’ll never get it right I hear my voice but is it falling Falling on deaf ears again? However loud I shout are my words falling Falling on deaf ears again? Do you think a new government’s what you need To change a system built on hate and greed? If so you’ll be disappointed When that false dawn comes about Their only function’s to keep hold To reinforce the status quo Make sure there’s enough to fill the trough Where they all put their snouts But still you keep believing Still you go out and vote If you don’t listen, think and question Then you haven’t any hope I hear my voice but is it falling Falling on deaf ears again? However loud I shout are my words falling Falling on deaf ears again?
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Flies (Dear Health Secretary) 01:39
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So this is free society where we all start the same We all have opportunity if we just play the game There’s no discrimination we can succeed if we try Tell me, in your reality, what colour’s the sky? A look at the mortality rates Will prove you’re telling lies The rich live to a ripe old age While the poor just drop like flies We have a 'free' health service, which you claim is the best I hope I never need to put your theory to the test One thing rather worries me, answer if you dare If the free one’s so good, why do the rich pay for healthcare? A look at the mortality rates Will prove you’re telling lies The rich live to a ripe old age While the poor just drop like flies The gap keeps getting wider, there is no way across From effects of malnutrition or the dust from asbestos Or cancer from the cheap food chain or sharp rise in TB Though I doubt you’d know anyone who’ll die from that disease A look at the mortality rates Will prove you’re telling lies The rich live to a ripe old age While the poor just drop like flies
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We Only Want a Future 01:10
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Don’t need Big Brother Government Checking our every move With the police force and the military On hand when they disapprove We only want what’s rightfully ours Control of our own lives We’re sick of being downtrodden Sick of being deprived We only want a future where we have an equal say We only want a future where we’re pleased to see each day We only want a future where we combine work and play We only want a future Stand on your own feet Came Thatcher’s clarion call Get on your bike and look for work Was Tebbit’s arrogant drawl Now Bambi and grey Major Pretend they understand How can they comprehend hunger Earning over forty grand? We only want a future where we have an equal say We only want a future where we’re pleased to see each day We only want a future where we combine work and play We only want a future Don’t want to be dependent But we’re left with little choice They say they’ll listen to us But then just ignore our voice We’ll have to help ourselves To overcome the superpowers If we all stand together The future can be ours We only want a future where we have an equal say We only want a future where we’re pleased to see each day We only want a future where we combine work and play We only want a future
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Tomorrow 01:12
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How did we ever get ourselves in the position Where the old are left to die of hypothermia and malnutrition The young have nowhere else to go so live out on the streets While the money’s in the hands of the social elite Never in the field of human conflict it is true Have so many been owed so much for so long by so few The end is fast approaching for the inflictors of these crimes They’ll all wake up one morning, find it’s payback time It could be tomorrow We must work for tomorrow Must believe in tomorrow The system dies tomorrow It could be tomorrow We must work for tomorrow Must believe in tomorrow The system dies tomorrow As more and more get sucked into the poverty trap The more obvious it becomes that democracy will snap So the laws get tougher and they lock more behind bars But that just leaves them less in taxes for their luxury cars Breaking point gets closer, the more they lie and cheat Let’s get the anarchist message to more people on the street No laws, no gods, no masters, prepare the battlements We can run our lives without the State and Government It could be tomorrow We must work for tomorrow Must believe in tomorrow The system dies tomorrow It could be tomorrow We must work for tomorrow Must believe in tomorrow The system dies
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Anarchy 01:59
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And will our feet at any time Walk upon England’s mountains free And will the oppressive hand of God Be cast forever into the sea? When will the people join as one? Stand tall upon these grassed hills And when will anarchy be established here With no more dark satanic mills Bring me my baseball bat of old Bring me the bricks that I desire And petrol bombs let it be told Of parliament consumed by fire I shall not keep from mental fight Nor shall my stick be far from hand ’til we have anarchy established here And England is a pleasant land
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To Find a Little Bluebird (spoken word) 19:46
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Formed in 1979, Riot/Clone have had many different line ups over the years with the only constant being singer Dave Floyd.
They have released five EPs and four albums in that time, with another due for release 2020.
Mostly linked with the anarchopunk scene and in particular animal rights, Riot/Clone aren't for everyone, but if you like angry lyrics with catchy tunes they might be up your street! ... more

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