Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think the primary purpose of your life, of my life and the entirety of the human race is just to blindly consume to support a failing economy and a faulty system. Forever and ever until we run out of every resource, and have to resort to blowing each other up to ensure our own survival
I don't think we're supposed to sit by idle, whilst we continue to use a long outdated system, that produces war, poverty, collusion, corruption, ruins our environment and threatens every aspect of our health, and does nothing but divide and segregate us
I don't think how much military equipment we are selling to other countries, how many hydrocarbons we're burning, how much money is being printed and exchanged, is a good measure of how healthy our society is
But I do think I can speak for everyone when I say We're sick of this shit!
[Drop] Time to mobilise Time to open eyes [Verse 1] We are not a quiet pocket of resistance This is real and we cannot afford to fail Act with, act with persistence This is real and we cannot afford to fail
[Rob Rolfe] “I am the established order Respect me and fear me”
[Rou Reynolds] Fuck you! We hold no respect And when tomorrow comes We’re gonna step on your head! Pig!
[Interlude: Band] Calm down! Calm down, mate! Calm the fuck down! Gandhi, mate, remember Gandhi
[Rou Reynolds] Alright, alright, I’m fine
[Verse 2: Chris Batten] “See, if we keep them silent Then they’ll resort to violence And that’s how we criminalise change” [Rou Reynolds] Oh, yabba dabba do one, son We don’t want your rules Who you fooling son? We’ve got all the tools We need to build a whole new system To correct these flaws
[Rory Clewlow] “Yeah, like what?”
[Rou Reynolds] I’ve already listed them
[Rory Clewlow] “You’re a communist! You’re a fucking utopianist!”
[Rou Reynolds] Ah, there come the emotive labels But their attempt just fails 'Cause man, we’re so far out your comfort zone
[Bridge] We stop, think, begin to revive We stop, think, begin to revive We stop, we think, we begin to revive We begin to revive Put the call out to the front line Get the message out to the contact squad Transmit emergency frequencies
Put the call out to the front line Get the message out to the contact squad Put the call out, put the call out, put the call out
Oh, the jigsaw starts to build Oh, and the jigsaw starts to build Piece by piece! Open their minds
[Outro] Transmit emergency frequencies
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies Emergency frequencies Emergency frequencies Emergency frequencies