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Where Does It Begin?
03:31
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Where does it begin?
Where does it end?
Where does it begin?
Where does it end?
It begins in the village
Rush hour
It begins in the village
Rush hour
We’ve heard a lot of repetition
From politicians
We’ve heard a lot of repetition
From politicians
Where does it begin?
Where does it end?
Where does it begin?
Where does it end?
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All Lies
03:57
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Tell me what you’re voting for? All lies...
Don’t trust any of their crap. All lies...
All lies...
Set us up to isolate. All lies...
Fighting wars around the world. All lies...
All lies (I’ve never voted)
All lies (I’m getting bloated)
All lies (I’d like to flow but it needs people to come together though
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I wouldn’t say it was irrelevant
That every place needs a government
At the end of the day places will stand
People will be happy
There will be nourishment
It’s my choice to do what I’m doing
I don’t get involved
Every day working at the food bank
Without small cogs, the bigger ones
Ain’t gonna work
It feels like they haven’t got a clue
What’s it like to live low
What it’s like to ever be low
You know?
Without small cogs...
We’re nearly out of stock
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4. |
The Disconnect
05:38
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Life will be meaningless unless
We find an answer to the disconnect
Between the poor and the people who are doing fine
This is the thin end of the wedge
They’re selling off the NHS
The boss class are creaming it by their design
No to austerity and
No to the cuts
We know that fat cats all pay monkey nuts
Here’s to the NHS ‘cause
We’re fighting back
We know the ruling class are fiddling their tax
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Sunday morning, quiet scene
I learnt the truth in Trowbridge
Round the corner with stolen meat
Tears a thief in Trowbridge
Then out of nowhere, a homeless man
Interrupts this Victoriana
To tell me how he misses his dad
I wasn’t ready for this drama
Keep moving forward
‘Cause sometimes thinking is great
But action, action changes things
His hero turned to heroin
He had an inflammation
The only place to put it in
Despite all information
On his own, a late night shift
Dad raged a war and made his peace
Shot it straight into his cyst
And now I hold his son...on Market Street
Keep moving forward...
And you know what, action.
‘cause who’s right, who’s wrong
you can run that program all you like.
Action, it’s not easy is it?
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6. |
The Centre
04:07
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I think honestly, and this is going to sound absolutely crackpot crazy, honestly, power comes from intelligence, and intelligence is like OK you can read a book yeah? I don’t personally know for a woman but for a man, basically, sperm contains 37.5 MB of data, and I think we’re raised in a culture that’s so free, so McDonald’s, so do what you want, so open, you know what I mean
Have I just found myself in the Centre?
If that makes any kind of sense at all
I think you know the bible and all these stories of Jesus or Horus, getting crucified is the story of sacred oil going up the spine from the Bottom to the top and going on to coat the pineal gland, and when
that happens I think you’ve got some sort of power in the world I think before that you’re just sort of powerless
If that makes any kind of sense at all
If you can go 5 to 40 days without putting toxins in your body then you can go to that mid-point and find love or you can keep going on to enlightenment
On a scale of consciousness from 1 to 1000
I’m on zero
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7. |
Gremlin
06:09
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You see this fucking rain
It’s just water
that falls from the sky
You’ve got a choice
You laugh at it or hide
People are just like plants
You keep them alive
As long as you can
Then they just die
My approach to life
Is basically get the fuck on with it
You’ve got two choices really like, Billie
You have to get on with it
If you cut that out
You’re committing suicide
You can either walk through it depressed
Or walk through laughing of your chest
Guess which one we’re picking?
I couldn’t give a fuck man
I couldn’t give a toss
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8. |
X Marks The Spot
06:40
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So many different temperatures
Don’t know which one I like the most
Do I like it up here or down there?
I’m trying to get to slumber world
The night before I make my postal vote
So I sing an electoral prayer
X: marks the spot, the place you find the treasure
X is the mystery, the unknown variable
X, the one you used to love,
The signature of the unlettered
The wrong answer
So many voices in my head, so many stories, so much powe
Imagine we all sat down to write all the things you can’t say with an X
but can with all the letters.
Yes, letters, what if we all wrote letters...?
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9. |
My First Time Voting
04:42
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So much needs
to be done
It’s hard to know
where to start
Many people say
I want this to happen
But they’re not thinking
About the bigger picture
They get really personal
I know some people
who are UKIP
You try not to let it
Affect your friendship
But you’re like
“Why do you think like this”
If you’re slagging off people
I don’t think it does you
Any justice at all
Politics should be
compulsory in schools,
it’s what we’re living
And we need to know about it
The amount of people
Who didn’t even know how to vote
I don’t think money is the answer
A lot of pledges for more money
But no action
Vote for me because of this,
this and this
It’s hard to keep those pledges
Once in government
I prefer honesty than being
bold and strong
It’s about changing the way
we educate objectively
It’s my first time voting
which is a relief
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10. |
Vote John Izod
02:27
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No, I never really tangled
with politics.
I was in the army, I was abroad,
I was in Hong Kong for quite a long
time, Malaya and then I came back
Emigrated to Canada: quite content
away from it all
But the politics of Dixieland and
modern jazz had a call.
But when you come to a place like Rye
you eventually tangle
with the local chiefs
on whether we are getting a good deal
or ignored by the powers that be
So I often go to council meetings
eyeball anyone who looks thirsty
then come down here and finish off
the business of the evening
in the local which strikes me
as a good idea
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11. |
We're Only An Island
03:33
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It’s like you having a party and you say to me right you’re invited now but it’s not a big house bring one guest and I turn up with about four guests - if everybody done that before you know it you be so crowded you wouldn’t know what to do would you?
In a way that’s over the top but in a way it’s like this country. People say ah come in, we’re only an island. Don’t get me wrong immigration is good, it’s a good thing I mean if we bring all these people in from West Indies or whatever, I think immigration’s great I mean...a cosmopolitan place is brilliant I love it you know but when you see the facts and the attitude of some people is like ‘we’ve got a goddamn right to be here
you know who are you, you only live here sort of thing’.
And maybe I’m all wrong and I’m a bit, I’m a crazy mixed up kid. When people from other countries arrive and get jobs it just winds people up ‘cause they just think oh you know, the working class people if you’re working (you might not find this PC) the white heterosexual british male just seems to be on the slag heap you know. It seems like we might be being racist but we’re not racist you know. I mean people are people but when the doors are open and the borders are just open….
No I haven’t spoken to any immigrants, this is just things I’ve seen on TV…
I’m mean I’m not saying, I’m not one of these people slumming down the docks and going with a gun saying ‘oi you, what you gonna do, you gonna get any work? you get back’.
The thing is that, especially young people and that if you’re not, if it’s
your first time voting, it’s very confusing, really because now in this this and this sort of…yeah it’s like a very cosmopolitan world, well this country is and you think…it’s going along nicely and then someone
comes along and says ‘Ere, we don’t want yous ‘ere, they’re taking all our money’, they’re doing this they’re doing, do you know what they’re
doing? Don’t let them get off the bloody boat, blow their ‘eads off.’ And people saying ‘God, he’s saying some truth there’ and then someone else turns up and says ‘look, we need Europe for this
and that’ and you think yeah we do and then, so where I’m sat in,
it’s very confusin’.
As I say I’ll come to vote but I’ve got a couple of manifestos and going through today anyway.
People say ‘oh you vote that, you shouldn’t vote that’ it’s their, their
mind, it’s your right as a human. I was speaking to this lady in Dover last week and I said we’re getting ready for the election she said ‘I don’t vote’ - What? Why? Do you not realise that people like Emiline Pankhurst and that, and that poor lady that threw herself under the horse at the derby or whatever, I said ‘they fought like mad for you to get a vote’ I said ‘if women didn’t have a vote you’d be playing
merry hell’ what are you doing now? I’m not voting ‘cause yeah their all the same, I said well think about it, just think oh it’s only one vote, I said if everybody thought that…
I’ve gotta read this stuff I’ve got, the thing is I’m a bit open minded at the moment.
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12. |
I Just Met Nigel Farage
06:33
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(Brother Ed: If you’re able to er
walk and talk?)
I just met Nigel Farage on North Down
Road in Cliftonville in Margate.
Which is the kind of street that’s
become the focus of the whole
campaign here that’s the kind of fault
line of the things we’re talking about.
And about ten/fifteen minutes after
talking to Nigel Farage very politely
but firmly telling him that he’s a
fascist and we don’t need his kind of
people here and telling him that he
was causing division where there
wasn’t any before:
A UKIP branded car, UKIP flags flying,
pulled over, the guy jumped out, um,
was abusive to me and to Tracy and
then punched me in the face.
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13. |
Plebs
05:11
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we are merely plebs
we are merely plebs
plebs to the system
always have been always will be
nothing’s ever changed -
nothing will ever change
the rich have always
screwed the poor
always have always will
we ain’t got democracy,
never will have
1% of the world owns 85%
of the world’s wealth
they’ve got no care for us -
why would they care about us.
we will never matter
(we are plebs mr gow, plebs)
and it’ll never change
(thanks for speaking to us
andrew, i’m ed)
and it ain’t miliband neither
we are merely plebs...
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14. |
Stand By Your Beds
07:01
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Have you seen the apples
on the trees? Standing by
as they harvest on the breeze
Can we reconnect
Urban disconnect?
Hear the tales of roots
and shoots and leaves
All these stories all around
Some are lost, some are found
Others find their way back
to the ground
Have you seen the price of property?
Nothing there to entice the ordinary
Every piece we’ve got
Council lost the plot
But here’s a place of generosity
But when the earth is in its prime
We will learn by its design
Fairly soon it will be gathering time
But when the earth is in its prime
We will live by its design
Fairly soon it will be gathering time
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15. |
Power To The People
02:44
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(The milk float circulates 7 times
around Parliament Square.
The Power is delivered...)
Power to the People
People got the Power
Tell me can you feel it?
Getting stronger by the hour
Power, Power, Power to the People
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16. |
A Stone, A Seed
02:35
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A stone, a seed, I contemplate
Alone agreed we demonstrate
The earth is pure, dust is my fate
A stone, a seed
With love I’m rich as many
A chorus joined by all
Carried by the mighty
A stone, a seed
The land we bleed yet incubate
It gives, we feed, obliterate
There is no cure for our new state
A stone, a seed
And now we hear the hum
It brings us to
where we belong
A stone, a seed
A stone, a seed
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17. |
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Time is what it used to be:
we’re going home,
we’re going home...
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Billie Bottle Devon, UK
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