Protest Songs

by Slumberwall

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released 11 September 2009
Produced, Arranged, Composed & Performed by Mahalia

www.godhaven.org.uk/slumberwall/
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slumberwall@hotmail.com

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Track Name: The Atheist Society
Well the Atheist Society is meeting today
The young president, he should be happy & gay
But he’s cruel & he is mean
He likes to read The Selfish Gene
And the Atheist Society is meeting today

The Socialists are laying out their stall on the lawn
The Young Conservatives are going to come along
They all agree with what they’ve read
They’ve heard this living world is dead
And the Atheist Society will meet there today

Industrial scientists on the village green
Bobbing for apples that were spliced with pig's genes
They put the world under the knife
Took a patent out on life
In an Atheist society there’s no wrong no right

There’s a lot of people who’ll never care what is best
They take what they want from the world & then they shit on the rest
Not to do so would be weak
They’ll never turn the other cheek
They’d like to trample on the meek

And nothing is shocking, nothing’s obscene
If nothing is sacred what does that even mean
Every atom holds a dance
Every touch & every glance
For god is in the smallest thing
& the ground of all chance

Science & technology, they’re going to keep us alive
After a nuclear war will the fittest survive
I don’t know but I do pray
That there might be another way
But the Atheist Society is meeting today

We’ve been waiting on progress since before we were born
Still waiting for that long-promised heaven to dawn
It would be such sweet relief
We’ve just got to have belief
So the Atheist Society is meeting today
.
Track Name: All The Queen's Horses
Cameras,
Camera everywhere
More police
Up in the air
Watching TV
No-one seems to care

ID cards & DNA
CS gas & pepper spray
Every demonstration turns out
The same way

And all the queens horses
& all the queens men
They take us apart
Again & again

& I hate the police
I hate the police
I hate the police
I do

Every time I see those big men in yellow coats I
Wonder what is going to happen to my friends
Every time I see them on my street I wonder
Where it will end

Roads all closed & exits sealed
Blood upon the riot shield
Some of the wounds you gave
they never healed

All you serve are fearful kings
Greed & power & suffering
Put down your weapons
Return to your homes
Be a good soldier
& don’t hurt your own

For they hate the police
& they fear the police
They don’t need the police
Do you?

Every time I see those big men in yellow coats I
Wonder what is going to happen to my friends
Every time I see them on my street I wonder
Where it will end

And I hate the police
And they hate the police
And we hate the police
We do
We do
We do
.
Track Name: Why My Songs Should Be Taught In School
I see a new singer singing up there on MTV
He’s looking pretty pleased with himself
Well, wouldn’t you be?
He’s got everybody watching now,
& he thinks he’s free
Selling i-pods & aftershave
with his R&B

And all the gangsta rappers
they do their silly strutting dance
They walk like they’ve got lobsters
in their underpants
They act like they're so dangerous
Yes & they act like they're so hard
Instead of slaves in golden chains
still tied up in the yard

‘cause when it matters they don’t sing
‘cause all the rappers like fine things
All the rappers like gold rings
& fancy cars
They only go so far
They only go so far

*

I hear the radio playing
all its same old lies:
Soppy boys with bouffant hair
& big doey eyes
They’d swim through shit for money
But still they pack them in the aisles
Singing songs of hurt & pain
with big wide smiles

Oh give me something to believe in
Give me something full of feeling
Give me something not deceiving me
That’s all i need right now
That’s all i need right now

*

You’ll never hear my songs playing in supermarkets while you are stood in queues
You’ll never hear my songs upon TV trying
to sell you drinks & shoes
So i don’t know if i’ll ever make it big
If i’ll ever get that swimming pool

Or what all this is worth,
except it’s true

And that is something to believe in
That is something good for healing
That is something not deceiving me
That’s all i need right now
That’s all i need right now
.
Track Name: Guantanamo Bay
i am not, nor have i ever been, a communist
i don't know just how i ended up upon your list
but i don't agree with what you do
or anything you say

take me to guantanamo bay
take me to guantanamo bay

i suppose i may have spoken to an anarchist
at some demonstration telling me i should resist
they said you have no right to silence
no matter what you say

& then they took him to guantanamo bay
they took him to guantanamo bay

the police outside are saying i'm a terrorist
& now i feel the quickcuffs tightening around my wrists
everyone has got a gun
except for me these days

everywhere's guantanamo bay
everywhere's guantanamo bay
everywhere's guantanamo bay
Track Name: The Sound Of Music
The hills are alive
with the sound of music
with songs they have sung
for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart
with the sound of music
my heart wants to sing
every song it hears

My heart wants to glide
like the bird that flies
over hills far away
to sing to the night
like a lark that is learning
to pray

I go to the hills
when my heart
is lonely
i know i will hear
what i've heard before
My heart will be filled
with the sound of music
& i'll sing
once more
.
Track Name: The Saddest Music In The World
Today i heard
the saddest music in the world
somewhere there
looking in your eyes

somewhere there
was the song they never play
the film they never show
like they don't even know it's there

in hollywood
there are riches in the street
music in the air
music everywhere

and none of it
means anything to me
all those squawks of liberty
daytime show celebrity

all those wasted lives
the songs that no one knows
all those wasted lives
are not some little show
they're not some tv show

today i heard
the saddest music in the world
somewhere there
deep within your eyes

in your eyes
is the song i long to hear
the film i wish you'd show
all the hurt i wish you'd share
in time

for all our wasted lives
are all we'll ever know
this is all we'll ever know
all our wasted lives:
the riches that we own
these are the riches that we own
these are the riches that we own
these are the riches that we own
.
Track Name: Feel Like I Just Got Out
Feel like i just got out,
I’m free,
I’m free to wander
Feel like i’m now allowed
to be
& that is all i want
I
bear
no blame
& i feel
no shame
& i feel like i just got out
& now I’m free

Winter has been so long
The heart inside of me got frozen
But now it’s moving on
& i too must be going
Winter’s been so long
but summer’s coming on
& i feel like i just got out
& now I’m free

There’s a weight i only carried from your door
I don’t have to do that anymore

It’s going to take some time
to reach
that place i’m going to
but now i don’t mind
the roads ahead are open now
I love you still
I think i always will
but i feel like i just got out
& now i’m free

I love you still
but i’ve had my fill
And i feel like i just got out
I feel like i just got out
I feel like i just got out
& now I’m free
.
Track Name: Hymn
See the flag slowly flying
See the birds settle down
See the cloud slowly sailing
Somewhere high over town

See the light slowly fading
as the day turns to night
The lights of the city
Are a beautiful sight

But they cover such hunger
& they dazzle & lie
See the pain on the faces
of all those passing by

As I walk through the city
I look for where you hide
Do you hide in the churches?
Where they cover their eyes?

Do you hide in the palace
With the princes & queens
Who fence off your beauty
& hunt all of our dreams?

I hear you in the silence
I feel you in the light
As the moon on the heather
washes everything white

I see you in our bodies
I see you in our smiles
In the hills & the valleys
that we’ve walked, all these miles

We are young & we’re foolish
Still we’re older than sin
Older than all the bibles
& the sorrow they bring

All my life I have sought you
All this life that is yours
Put me where I am needed
& I’ll sing till I’m hoarse

Though my people are broken
& their mouths all struck dumb
& our country seems fallen
& all truth overcome

I’ll continue to love you
& to try make it right
& I’ll spin with you slowly
here
in the holy light
in the holy,
holy
light
.
Track Name: As Big As An Ocean
They’re showing adverts on the moon
It makes me want to cry
The names of corporations
Filling up the sky

They’re making a cartoon of my life
Would I like to play myself?
That they asked me, that was nice
But i need something else

As big as an ocean, my soul
As big as an ocean, my soul

You see, all that i was told was true
it all turned out to be a lie
the words of all the preachers
the politicians eyes

And they’re selling off the night
By the yard or by the pound
If you want it, get it now
Before it all breaks down

As big as an ocean, my soul
As big as an ocean, my soul

This is the age of death & reason
The age of cold machines
All reality in colour
on a billion glowing screens

The beauty is all gone
We’ve just the gods of oil & war
We have a wealth of information
But no wisdom anymore

And they’re burning witches daily
And they’re burning gypsies too
And once they’ve come for all the others
Then there’ll be only me & you

As big as an ocean, my soul
As big as an ocean, my soul
It’s deep & on fire,
It’s made of desire
As big as an ocean, my soul

*

I hear they’ve almost made the breakthrough
They’ve almost found the cure for love
There’ll be no burst of inspiration
There’ll be no sign from up above

But there’s a holiness still in us
Every heart a point of light
Like the stars up in the heavens
in this long, cold moonless night

As big as an ocean, my soul
As as big as an ocean, my soul
It’s deep & on fire,
It’s made of desire
As big as an ocean, my soul
.
Track Name: The Firework
There are a million other suns
sprawled across this milky way
All the stars, they stumble on
farther & farther away

It’s a long long endless night
& we’ve only one short day
to make it all turn out alright
but if we don’t,
then that’s okay

We’re just an experiment
that was never meant to last
A sudden beauty
that will bloom & be gone fast
We’re all just a firework
that will burn up in the sky
of some planet
far away

***

We’re just an experiment
that was never meant to last
A violent beauty
that will bloom & be gone fast
We’re all just a firework
that will burn up in the sky
of some planet
far away