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Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do
Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do
Di-ba-di-de-do
Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

You can just replace company store with whatever capitalist institution owns you. 🫠

And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun

-Pink Floyd

The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming, The Vengabus is coming, the Vengabus is coming

I've been waiting for the next Vengabus since 1998. Our public transport infrastructure is a fucking joke.

Yes I know my enemies; They're the teachers who taught me to fight me. Compromise, Conformity, Assimilation, Submission, Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Brutality, The elite - All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

You can check out, but you can never leave.

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

• Pink Floyd, Time

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

• The bards Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope

Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope will I sure could use a vacation from this Bull shit three ring sideshow circus of freaks

They call me the hiphoppopotamus

Flows that glow like phosphorus

Poppin' off the top o' this esophagus

Rockin' this metropolis

I'm not a large water dwelling mammal

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! x14

PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA
PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA SE NECESITA UN POQUITO DE GRACIA
UN POQUITO DE GRACIA PA'TI PA'MI ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
Y ARRIBA Y ARRIBA
POR TI SERÉ POR TI SERÉ

"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

Tequila!

Deine Gewalt ist nur ein stummer Schrei nach Liebe

Deine Springerstiefel sehnen sich nach Zärtlichkeit

Du hast nie gelernt, dich zu artikulieren

Und deine Eltern hatten niemals für dich Zeit

Oh-ho-ho, Arschloch!

I only lived in Germany for a bit, but this one stuck in my head pretty hard. Schrei nach Liebe by Die Ärzte

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

It's transcended time

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.

“Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

&

“So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you could tell?
Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here”

Jeff Tweedy is, I think, the greatest American lyricist of his generation. His stuff always hits. But for some reason, Wilco- She's a Jar and it's chorus, has always stuck with me.

"Just climb aboard

The tracks of a trains arm

In my fragile family tree

And watch me floating inches above

The people under me"

Another one from Jeff's (I've seen him in concert 5 times already, I can call him Jeff) solo Album, Jeff Tweedy- I know what it's like

"When the lights are dim

In my window I have a twin

I'm always looking out

And he's always looking in

I know what it's like

Starting over again"

And then, finally, from one of the greatest flows in the rap game, MF DOOM- Figaro, and this weird ass lyric that has lived rent-free in my head since I heard it

"Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat

Off sides like how Worf rides with Starfleet"

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost, Everybody knows the fight was fixed, The poor stay poor, the rich get rich, That's how it goes, Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, Everybody knows the captain lied, Everybody got this broken feeling, Like their father or their dog just died, Everybody talking to their pockets, Everybody wants a box of chocolates, And a long-stem rose, Everybody knows...

As far as story telling, and war goes, "The General" by Dispatch:

[Verse 1]

There was a decorated general with a heart of gold

That likened him to all the stories he told

Of past battles won and lost, and legends of old

A seasoned veteran in his own time

On the battlefield, he gained respectful fame

With many medals of bravery and stripes to his name

He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face

And always urged his men on

[Verse 2]

But on the eve of a great battle with the infantry in dream

The old general tossed in his sleep and wrestled with its meaning

He awoke from that night to tell what he had seen

And walked slowly out of his tent

All the men held tall with their chests in the air

With courage in their blood and a fire in their stare

And it was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare

Till the old general told them to go home

[Chorus]

He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

That this fight is not worth fighting

And I've seen their mothers

And I will no other

To follow me where I'm going

So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

You are young and you must be living

So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

You are young and you must be living

Go now, you are forgiven"

[Verse 3]

But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders

Not knowing what to do with their contradicting orders

The general said he would do his own duty but he would extend it no further

The men could go as they pleased

But not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead

Till one by one they stepped back, and not a word was said

And the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head

He then prepared to fight

[Chorus]

He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

That this fight is not worth fighting

And I've seen their mothers

And I will no other

To follow me where I'm going

[Outro]

Go now, you are forgiven

Go now, you are forgiven

Go now, you are forgiven

Go

I wanna live in the city with no friends or family
I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV
I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me
I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV

Abracadabra boom-shacka-dae

I'm Violent J and I'm back like a vertebrae

And I come with a hat full of tricks

Trunk full of Faygo, car full of fat chicks.

ICP. Hocus Pocus

Mnaa mnaa. Do do do do do.

Mnaa mnaa. Do do do do.

Mnaa mnaa. Do do do do do

Do do do, do do do, do do do do do do do do do do.

Remember kids, when in doubt, MNAA MNAA.

M-Make N-Nazis A-Afraid A-Again

The sun ablaze as Maria's foot touches the surface of sand

On northern land, as human contraband

Some rico from Jalisco passed her name to the Boss

She stuffed into a truckbed, she clutches her cross

Here comes the exhaust and it rips through her lungs

She's off fast to the pasture, like cattle she'll cross

Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown And she prays and suffocates upon the memories of home

Of Yanqui guns for blood, debts on the loans

Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones

Of graves hidden, trapped up in visions of war

Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more

Hard to pick a RATM song, but Maria is one of my favourite lyrically. Also topical right now

ABCDEFG...

• Vincent, by Don McLean

On that starry, starry night

You took your life, as lovers often do

But I could've told you, Vincent

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

• Also, probably anything written by Bowie, even as cryptic as his songs can sometimes be. Sound and Vision and Life on Mars stand out.

Please tell mom this is not her fault

I walk a lonely road, the only road that i have ever known.

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"