1. |
Choke
02:37
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We burn the coal from the mines
We drill the oil from the wells
Livestock shitting toxic gas clouds
as I taste the sky turning foul
The air we need to breathe, comes with a bitter twist
A cocktail of oxides and sulphates, that put our lives at risk
Temperatures rising as the ozone depletes
Children dying as the air they breathe
is replaced with carcinogens, car exhausts, power stations
spewing out the greenhouse gasses, toxic poison for the masses
with the cattle comes methane, vicious cycle of cruelty and disdain
Is the solution mass extinction?
Our atmosphere affects the rich as the poor
There's no differentiation, it'll fucking kill us all
There's no escape from the smoke, now fucking choke
We'll choke on the beaches
Choke in the fields
Choke in the streets
Choke
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2. |
Revolt
04:31
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How did this all start? And why do we still live this way?
Under a monarchy in this day and age?
With power handed down, father to son
This fucking feudal bullshit must come undone
For our future, ruled by the past
because they took the land from the common man
Why do they still have favour from the ones they claim to own?
How do they get the power? Because they were born unto a throne
I don’t think that this should be
An unelected head of state
To have a royal family, just does not make sense to me
Protect their own interests: land, wealth, power and assets
while some of their subjects can’t even make ends meet
I think the time has come to revolt
We fund their fortunes
We fund their decadence
They live in palaces, because of their blue blood
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3. |
High and Dry
03:09
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Can't drink oil, can’t eat gold
The only real precious asset H2O
We demand more every day, but the supply stays the same
Growing ever more polluted and unsafe
The thirsty few, just grew and grew
It will be half the world
In a decade or two
It could sustain us all, if supply was equal,
not hoarded, wasted, tainted
Thrown away on meat, poisoned by industry
Our sources eroded to the point that we all dry up and die
With only one percent, of water on earth safe to drink
What does the future hold? What do you think?
With the tide flowing high, with undrinkable brine
Even as glaciers melt, our dirty hand's been dealt
High and Dry
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4. |
The Cord
03:25
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A celestial race , we're falling through space
chasing the tail of a star, we learned to survive on what nature provides,
our intellect got us this far
Now it's greed that condemns us
Civilisation: the great divider
Between our evolution and subjugation
It's the hierarchy that puts us in our place
Leaving most of us here at the bottom
It's the thin blue line between freedom and function
It’s the system that keep the masses desperate
As this rock speeds through the universe is it a
blessing or a curse that our species survived to exist
under the rule of iron fist?
The fact we live in luxury means millions face poverty
Live by the pen, die by the sword ,
given the choice we'd cut the cord
I'd fly away through outer space
say goodbye to the human race
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5. |
Autonation
03:24
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Since the implementation of the plough, machinery has replaced
so much human toil
Production has increased exponentially, we can support so many now
We can focus on other things: spiritual meaning
the only thing is without a useful purpose now a machine does
your work , you’ve been tossed out on the scrapheap
like so many left behind
the need for human labour wains as population soars
Will they still owe us a living?
What are we working towards?
An automatic world?
If the machines did our bidding, would we all be free?
Emancipated from our structured work and sleep routines?
Would we forget about our struggles? and the pressures
we despised? or strive to produce capital to justify our lives?
When they don't need us, will they still feed us?
Will we be allowed to live and not produce?
Or left to starve now factories can run themselves?
When the don't need us will they still feed us?
Automated production could feed the wealthy few
Surplus ex-producers can find something else to do
They rendered themselves useless when they
mechanised the world
Now they don't need us, will they still feed us?
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6. |
Feel What I Feel
03:24
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I bite with broken teeth, I speak in vile tongues
I taste my rotten breath, escape my dirty lungs
But this angry misanthrope can still hold on to hope
because some would kill to be, this sheltered weakling
All I see is half the world dying to be free of
poverty and tyranny
Everyday around the world, families are fleeing war
Smuggled out on crowded boats to reach a safer shore
You read it in the papers, and you don't feel a thing
It's easier to ignore people suffering
Just do nothing, it's that easy, don't affect me
WHAT THE FUCK?
Humanity : means nothing , if we just let them die
Humanity: worth nothing, if we don't even try
through a lack of empathy
You see what I see, and hear what I hear
There's blood on our hands and you don't seem to care
The suffering, is fucking real
You know what I know
Feel what I Feel
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