1. |
BLOOD AND SUFFERING
01:22
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I’ve been wandering these streets
Wondering where there is to go
Jerk chicken, rice and peas
This loneliness can bring you to your knees
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
It’s where we all belong
Take the night bus, double long
The voices of the dead
Are living in my head
The Dufferin bus is triple full
South is where we want to go
My friends around a fire pit
And the sky is full of smoke
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
It’s where we all belong
Hello, pigeons on the fence
Hello, singer on the library steps
Hello, brain that’s torn apart
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
Blood and Suffering
It’s where we all belong
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2. |
HOSPITALS AND GRAVEYARDS
02:56
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Here it comes!
Cue the hero’s welcome with fanfare and rolling drum
Cue the drooling moon-headed white baby, crawling and dumb
Now the gifts are loaded in the country’s crib
From the first, we played with guns, and knives, and skin
I always wanted more,
Nature’s bloody howl of pain, suffering, and strife
And more the life is longer
My love is stronger than my fear of death
I want to see the declarations of peace and sovereignty nailed to the parliament door
I want to see the cops stripped of guns and power
I want to see between the stars to where the night is stitched together
I always wanted more than hospitals and graveyards
The history of this country is a fucking mess
And still the years grow longer
My love is stronger than my fear of death
I want to see the stolen lands restored
I want to see our human dignity adorned with love and glory
I want to see the declarations of peace and sovereignty nailed to the parliament door
I want to see the trees growing, growing, and the clean water, honoured, running
I don’t want to see extinction
I want to see the dead returning
I want to see beyond the tragedy of you and me
I always wanted more,
Nature’s bloody howl of love, suffering, and life
And more the life is longer
My love is stronger than my fear of death
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3. |
UBI
02:02
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UBI I want it
UBI I need it
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4. |
ESCAPE VELOCITY
02:14
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Some down feeling got me locked down
Old punk records turned up loud
I rise! Disguised! with energy and sound
I’m running past the streetlights and I never touch the ground
You look at me
But you don’t see
I’m lighter now than gravity
I leave behind my enemies
Escape velocity!
Sun is slowly creeping across the shadows of my room
The garden’s great when flowers bloom
I rise! Disguised! Slip the gates of heaven too
I’m flying past the streetlights like a thousand glowing moons
You look for me
But you won’t see
I’ll leave behind my enemies
Moving fast is the only way to be
Escape velocity!
Our dreams cannot be measured, bandaged, or bought
I’m a child of the heaving cosmos
My atoms ripe with energy
My brain is busted open
And out crawls a thousand crawling worms and bugs
The infinite wins
Cruelty loses to love
You look for me
But you won’t see
I leave behind my enemies
I’m lighter now than gravity
Escape velocity!
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5. |
SNITCH LINE
01:52
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Are you with me now?
I saw my neighbours
Doing something I don’t like
Riding the wrong way
On a one way street
On a rusted old bike
And even worse
I saw them standing close
in the park
Dressed in black
After dark
Hey Hey
I saw a crime
Hey hey
I saw a crime
Hey hey
One more time
Snitch line
I walk these streets
Through the blue glow of a thousand TVs
I’m strong and kind
To my kind
Like a cop on a beat
These fucking neighbours
They’ve got a kid
Hidden up there
In the attic
Without papers
Hey Hey
I saw a crime
Hey hey
I saw a crime
Hey hey
One more time
Snitch line
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6. |
RED DAWN
01:46
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Me and my brothers
Are brick layers
I’m the smallest of the three
I flash the trowel
Like a knife blade
Like a cold flash of moonlight
A red cloud of brick dust
Red dust like a sunset
Red dust like a sunset
Is all you’ll see
I climb the scaffold in the morning
I climb it up and down, She said
“You’ve got arms like a river
Like the rivers of a distant mountain
Running clean”
Red cloud of brick dust
Red dust like a sunset
Red dust like a sunset
Is all you’ll see
3 fingers for the brick saw
3 fingers for the memory
3 fingers of whiskey
A spray of blood on the scaffold
I drink them down
I drink them down
I drink them down
I saw the sky changing
Faded blue bruise bandaged red
Here comes the storm cloud
Swinging overhead
Me and my brothers are brick layers
I’m the smallest of the three
Quick shine of blood on the scaffold
Red cloud of brick dust
Red dust like a sunset
Red dust like a sunset
Is all you’ll see
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7. |
SEA TO SHINING SEA
00:53
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A dim son rising in the east
A dull sun setting in the west
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8. |
HEAT WAVE
01:46
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Pretty punks sweating in their leather in the burning street
As beautiful as a shadow, the shadow of my dream
It’s a heat wave baby it’s a heat wave
And it’s gonna get a whole lot hotter in the days to come
Burning fields of plastic, trashy grass
Under the power lines by the train tracks
Sweat dropping, tick-tocking in the August sun.
And it’s gonna get a whole lot hotter in the days to come
Watch me sweat
Watch me sweat
Watch me sweat
It’s a heat wave baby it’s a heat wave
It’s a heat wave baby it’s a heat wave
And it’s gonna get a whole lot hotter in the days to come
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9. |
BALLS FALLS
00:55
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This one’s for Spang and Beans
And for Ian and Dan
Bean’s name is Ian
And Ian’s name is Dan too
This one’s for Jimmie
This one’s for Paul
This one’s for Charlie
I remember who my friends are
You’re going to know who
You’re going to know who
You’re going to know who your friends are
When the water hits the stone.
Here’s the music. Here’s the clue
You believed in me and I believed in you.
I was low and faded. I was hurting too.
You believed in me and I believed in you.
You’re going to know who
You’re going to know who
You’re going to know who your friends are
When the water hits the stone.
Here’s the music. Here’s the clue
Here’s the music. Here’s the clue
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10. |
SPIDER BITE
01:08
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I wrestled with a shadow
In the shadow of the night
I wrestled with a beast
I wrestled with my brother once
He broke my thumb
I wrestled with the past
In the dawn’s early light
I wrestled with the morning
On the cross town bus
You’re a spider bite
You’ve got poison in your veins
You’re a spider bite
You got fever, confusion,
And poison in your veins
You’re sick for money
You’re sick for fame
You’ve got poison in your future
And poison in your name
There’s no escape from money
Long fingers of money in your dreams
Your dreams are full of shadows!
You’re a spider bite!
You’re a spider bite
You’ve got poison in your veins
You’re a spider bite
You got fever, confusion,
And poison in your veins
You’re a spider bite
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