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Protest Songs

by Slumberwall

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1.
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 .
2.
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 .
3.
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 .
4.
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
5.
The Sound Of Music (free) 03:03
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 .
6.
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 .
7.
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 .
8.
Hymn 05:46
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 .
9.
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 .
10.
The Firework 05:23
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

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released September 11, 2009

Produced, Arranged, Composed & Performed by Mahalia

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