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Lies! Lies! Lies!
02:47
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350 Million reasons why
Written on the side of the bus
We're going to spend it on the health of the nation
For the good of all of us
Lies! Lies! Lies!
We’re going to build a northern powerhouse
For the rust belt communities
And then we’re going to share the money out
With the hard working families
Lies! Lies! Lies!
We’re going to be the greenest government
The world has ever seen
We’ll be the champions of the vulnerable
Oh and we’re ending child poverty
It's always the same people pay for your god damned
Lies! Lies! Lies!
We're going to wield the 'simple sword of truth'
See-through transparency
We’re going to make this country great again
Get on the bus and we’ll set you free
Lies! Lies! Lies!
It's always the same people pay for your lies
It's always the same people pay for your lies
It's always the same people pay for your god damned
Lies! Lies! Lies!
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Nobody Loves You
03:22
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Daddy was a stone cold Joe
In his Beach Haven white as snow
He always came up trumps, you know?
Keeping those dark devils down, below
It’s all gold baby, it’s all gold
I'm not talking 'bout a nuclear war
Or the reasons anyone would push the button for
I'm not talking 'bout the end of the world
I’m talking 'bout all the boys and the girls
Nobody loves you and you don’t know why
Nobody wants you and it makes you cry
You got hold of some of daddy’s roll
A modest million or so
Time rolled by and lo and behold
Everybody could be bought and sold
It’s all gold baby, it’s all gold
I'm not talking 'bout a nuclear war
Or the reasons anyone would push the button for
I'm not talking 'bout the end of the world
I’m talking 'bout all the boys and the girls
Nobody loves you and you don’t know why
Nobody wants you and it makes you cry
Nobody loves you and you can’t think why
You’ve got it all and it’s all a lie
You've got everything and it's all a lie
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Leaving The Club
02:49
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I’m Leaving the club - fizzy-headed on the street
I’m Leaving the club - with my head between my knees
I'm leaving the club - it was never love
They said that she was always straight bananas
And lies were written in a ring of stars above
Now my head's all dirty rivers of blood
Leaving the club
Full of fight, full of fear
Leaving the club - I'm the lone musketeer
I'm leaving the club - It was never love
They said that she was always straight bananas
And lies were written in a ring of stars above
Now my head's all dirty rivers of blood
Leaving the club
Is it true they let me do what I have done?
Could there ever be another - was she the one?
And who would love the fool I have become?
Leaving the club - Feeling sick all alone
Leaving the club - I can't make it on my own
Now I know - It was really love
I knew that she was always straight bananas
And love was written in a ring of stars above
Now my future's all dirty rivers of blood
Leaving the club - What have I done?
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Black Friday
04:15
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So this is it
Some kind of culmination
The zenith, the pinnacle, the realisation
Of millennia of dreams
Of countless generations
Is this the masterpiece of our civilisation?
Every one of us
And the corporations
Sharing in the rewards
This is it, the perfect combination
This is everything we’ve worked towards
Black Friday - bringing people together
Black Friday - and the passion is real
Black Friday - it’s the bestest ever
Black Friday - everything is a steal
So here we are
United one and all
On the edge of town at the shopping mall
In a common goal
All ages, all colours and creeds
Swallowing lies because we want to believe
Our desires turned into needs
Millennia of dreams
Collections themes
Stepping stones
Connecting me
To my shiny things
I will fight for my things
I will fight for my dreams
I will fight you for my dreams
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Tiina
04:29
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Tiina - two ‘i's - that’s how the spelling goes
Tiina - two ‘i’s - two ski poles in the snow
Please forgive my countrymen
They know not what they do
Yet for every million crying, “Out!"
Another million stands with you
Tiina don’t you dream that we’d let you go
Tiina don’t you dream that we’d let you go
Please forgive my countrymen
They know not what they do
Lied to, deceived, misguided, misled
The many still serve the few
Tiina...
You registered your interest in an English man
Nigh on 40 years ago
Came to live and work in his pleasant land
Not a simple thing to do
Please forgive my countrymen
They know not lies from true
But for every million dying out
A bright young million stands with you
Tiina - Don’t you dream that we’d let you go
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Magic Money Tree
02:25
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So it turns out there is a magic money tree
But it won’t grow for you and me
It’s not for fighting poverty
In the gig economy
It's not for sprinklers in the towers
It’s for clinging on to power
Look there I spy there is a magic money tree
And it’s growing from the seed
Of a dark philosophy
For a lost majority
And it’s on their land, it's not on ours
It’s for clinging on to power
So it turns out there is a magic money tree
And let there be no doubt it’s not for you and me
It’s for the 'democratic' aristocracy
The ugly fruit will buy you roughly 10 MPs
It’s got the strangest, beguiling flowers
The fragrance lies; it feeds on power power power power power power power
So it turns out there is a magic money tree
A magic money tree
And it’s on their land, it's not on ours
It’s for clinging on to power
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We Keep Turning Right
03:02
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I just woke up in the back of the car
Where are we now? We must have got pretty far
Hold on, hold on, everything looks the same
No deja vu, really nothing’s changed
We’ve been this road forever, but we haven’t got anywhere yet
At every turning we should have got off I swear
Waiting at the lights
Waiting at the lights..
Who the hell is driving this thing? - We keep turning right
Round the block, round the bend - Keep turning right
Wrong again wrong again wrong again - We keep turning right
Oh no we're back at the beginning
Driver! Driver! Stop the car
Where are we now? We haven't got very far
The sat nav lies and we threw away the map
I think I’ll walk, let me off the charabanc
We’ve been this road forever, but we haven’t got anywhere yet
At every turning we should have got off I swear
Waiting at the lights
Waiting at the lights..
Who the hell is driving this thing? - We keep turning right
Round the block, round the bend - We keep turning right
Wrong again wrong again wrong again - We keep turning right
Oh no we're back at the beginning - We keep turning right
Round in circles here we go - We keep turning right
All around the god damned globe - Keep turning right
Wrong again wrong again wrong again - Keep turning right
Back to where it all began - We keep turning right
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Have A Nice Deity
06:35
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Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch,
Weathervane - Corn dolly - Featherlight - Where’s Wally?
Red rain - Hidden under brolly - The ‘good' fight - More lolly
You’ve got god on your side - I’ve got dinosaur bones
You’ve got a place to hide - I’m out here all on my own
You say you’ve seen the light that’s ‘cause you’re coming from the darkness and the night
The creationists toil and trouble, but all the fear and dread only makes life worse
Stinking out our bubble hanging by a thread in the universe
Brother Cain - On a jolly - Petomaine - Nock volley
Cockaigne - Old folly - Separate - From the trolley
You’ve got god on your side - I’ve got dinosaur bones
You’ve got a place to hide - I’m out here all on my own
You say you’ve seen the light that’s ‘cause you’re coming from the darkness and the night
The creationists toil and trouble, but all the fear and dread only makes life worse
Stinking out our bubble hanging by a thread in the universe
You’ve got god on your side - I’ve got dinosaur bones
You’ve got a place to hide - I’m out here all on my own
You’ve got eternal life - I’m just hoping for a little more time
You've got your mysterious ways - I got explanations bona fide
You've got a book of stories - I’ve got satellites beyond the sky
You've got a vague sign to the promised land - I've got a map of a butterfly's eye
You've got absolute morality - I can progress within my time
Your words championed slavery - Then the Lord seemed to changed his mind
Your crazy book has shellfish proscribed - Nor a man with another man lie
But I saw you pulling prawns tonight - And eye the choir singing up the aisle
You've got the one true dog on your side - Hounding kids in new schools with old lies
You made the world 4000 years ago - I've got evidence from the edge of time
You got immaculate misconceptions - I just went forth and multiplied
You turned water into wine - I used fermented grapes to make mine
You used to do miracles all the time - 'fore I acquired my enquiring mind
You say that you have seen the light - That’s 'cause your coming from the darkness and the night
The creationists toil and trouble, but all the fear and dread only makes life worse
Stinking out our bubble hanging by a thread in the universe
I have evolved It’s too late
Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch, Chrch,
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Dark Forces
04:06
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The act is done
And a warrior surveys the land below
The summit of a body-strewn hill
Double-bladed bloody axe in his hands
Victorious, lord of these lands
Corpses carrion for the crows
Blood sealed deeds and a barley mow
People loot the vanquished foes
And look to the warrior
Look to the warrior for protection from
Dark Forces
The warrior-landlord lets the people stay
Men and women praise him as their children play
In the fortress with his fighting band
Safeguarded they sally forth to the hinterland
A beacon of protection from
Dark Forces
A bad year, crops fail, hunger in the citadel, fear grips
Talk of freedom, a new Eden, everything slips
Foment, talk of injustice and the power at his fingertips
Something tells the landlord
The taste of reckoning is what is on his lips
Clever landlord, builds a printing press
Words circulate, people talk of another day
Democracy, congress
They go along with what the word says:
Vote for the landlord Vote for the landlord
Vote for the landlord for protection from
Dark Forces
The people are not satisfied
Won't buy the lies that lie between the lines
Revolt! And the mob is made to rise
Justice on their minds and in their eyes
And the landlord-warrior faces the facts
Waits at the summit of cemetery hill
For the start of the act
With a double-bladed blood-stained axe
A double-bladed blood-stained axe for protection from
Dark Forces
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Global Nation
03:51
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Smaller the world each and every day
Learning to share the common space
Difference teaches and elevates
One look in the eye drives the lies away
Build your frontiers build your walls
Time tells the tale of how they fall
Global nation whatever you say
Global nation happening anyway
Global nation whatever you do
Global nation coming for you
Conservative minds can't abide the change
They fight the rate, but can't fight the range
But time moves on and blows time away
Closer the world each and every day
My eyes may not see what my dream relates
But my heart knows it's coming and celebrates
With gladness I give all my voice's weight
To the power of any love humankind makes
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Nick Harper England, UK
TEMPUS FUGITIVE
The new album.
It's about time.
Slabs of sonic beauty from Nick and Tchad Blake groove through the portals to meet the immortals ..
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