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No gods, no managers, no profit, no crowd
Just a couple of kids sending demo tapes around
The people now watching are next up to play
No one’s got money; were giving records away
Were wasting our lives living in sin
Never grow up - never give in!
Not in it for the buck cause we will never make a dime,
we got nothing but underground pride
Its not music we play and its not entertainment
were channeling our hate and our discontent
the world is upside down
and we trying to turn it around
Army of punks against the state and the crown
You can say what you like, we will never back down.
Creating an alternative not handing out guilt
Be confident not righteous in the network we built.
No hard drugs just Positive Junk
Fuck brothers in metal - were sisters in punk
we go against all their strife
creating alternative values in life
peace on earth without compromise
even if it means the death of mankind
Its not music we play and its not entertainment
were channeling our hate and our discontent
the world is upside down
and we trying to turn it around
We play to inspire we play to create
We play to learn and to educate
the world is upside down
and we trying to turn it around
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Snutas
02:48
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fuck the police the morally deceased
institution built for the rich to please
harassing the homeless, the sick and immigrants
as well of course the rest of the populace
with laws founded on lies to protect
the opulent and break down the lower class
sexism racism bleeds deep inside their system
fuck you little piglets we will never listen
and the european union wins the nobel price of peace
while their precious cops they beat, kill rape and walks free
and to all you made-up-law-making politricks
shut the fuck up you thieving cheats
robbing the masses with your lies and deceit
aint pleased til every last livin soul internally bleeds
no regret nor guilty conscience
for your dirty dirty fucking deeds
everything you do is born out of greed
but now its time for you to stand down and concede
and the european union wins the nobel price of peace
while their precious cops they beat, kill rape and walks free
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the knights of the fortress keeping look out
for enemies at the border
theyre armed to the teeth
if anyone comes close enough its shoot at sight;
theyre following their orders
despising the meek
protecting their homeland that yesterday was enemy territory
they never stop to think
werent the strong supposed to protect the weak?
send in the troops
seize their lands
and when they need a helping hand
supress your guilt and deny our history
if it was up to me
we'd welcome refugees
from across the world and across the sea
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have you ever heard of the term solidarity?
the enemy theyre fighting come in ships and boats
and rafts across the water
white flags in their hands
the storms and waves and draught and heat,
thirst and fatigue reduced their numbers
but now they see land
A father with his family, set out as four arrived as three
now shes buried in the sand
they had no choice but to flee
if it was my decision
deport the politicians
a battle field trip
maybe would make them listen
and get some perspective on what it is like to be scared
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we were born the same day
but not raised the same way
by the same parents in the same house
but with very different expectations
for me shame never came up
for her it ruled her whole world
from wanting her space to weight gain
bodily functions and masturbation
when we were kids and played
the accepted way was very straight
learn how to behave
and if youre female learn how to obey
cause the rules arent the same
we were both pawns in a bigger game
just puppets in chains
but i dont wanna live like that
its gotta be another way
Born in captivity - raised to be a man
its that separate but equal fucking bullshit again
indoctrination from cradle to grave
even your name tells you how you behave
a gender apartheid were trapped in for life
tradition and oppression like husband and wife
but if you truly believe in equality
there can be no division or hierarchy
I despise everything that im supposed to be
but its something i have to relate to constantly
despise what my "brothers" have been up to historically
waging war, raping, greed and general insanity
this dualistic vision of black and white division
between female and male beyond any doubt and questioning
the mainstay of mainstream capitalist consumerism
burn down their paradise hotel and build for freedom
You say you believe in individuality
then how come you support this genetic theory?
A fascist ideology with roots in race biology
a gender prison teaching us division
some say were already equal but i disagree
..cause equal is not the same as better than it used to be
if you truly believe in equality
there can be no division or hierarchy
there will be no peaceful coexistence
with anti socialist anti feminists
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Fuck Off, Arbetarklass!
02:13
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You say
eight hours of work is absolute minimum
But overtime on top of that is quite imminent
While thousands of people go without a job
And the welfare has eroded into a big black hole
It´s just competition, our mission
To fuck over one another without reason
And if you don’t push your hardest
You´ll be kicked out charged with treason
Exchanged with a worker for the season
Seems wasteful to waste away your days
Locked inside and molded to fall into decay
Monthly reports that nobody can grasp
Nobody cares it´s to the most utter avail
Mvp, rookie of the year, FUCK YOU!
Just make believe for fake awards
You work hard for appreciation
But in translation you just became
A puppet for their organisation
We´re not telling you how to live or what to do
We´re just fed up with all our friends bying in to your ruse
No we´re not telling you how to live or what to do
This is just us, giving our point of view
Work Loan Buy Die
The sweet song of our precious life
Is all that we know
When we fall jaded underground
When we fall jaded underground
We won’t no longer make a sound
When we are six feet underground
We are finally homeward bound
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Demands
01:38
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if i had a dollar for everytime you claimed
that everyone is equal no matter their name
i would buy a guillotine for you to reconsider in
or hand over your assets and well forget the whole thing
property is theft, so lets take it back
we got nothing to lose except for our shackles
its time to destroy this political farce
Sweden could be ours
dethrone the king!
total desarmation!
take back whats ours
by land expropriation!
kill all the rich!
burn all the banks!
tear down the flag!
these are our demands....
...non-negotiable demands!
the surplus value is created by us
while you live on handouts from family long gone
its not equality and we both know it
we both know you´re wrong
expropriate and confiscate!
fuck the borders, fuck the state!
basic income
for every citizen!
health care service
instead of conscription!
dethrone the king!
total desarmation!
take back whats ours
by land expropriation!
kill all the rich!
burn all the banks!
tear down the flag!
these are our demands....
...non-negotiable demands!
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Ecoist
02:00
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your only motivation's
economic stimulation
now suddenly environment
is one of your concerns
selling clear conscience
to the conscious consumer
while mass consumption is consuming the earth
but the oil will run out
and the profits you earned
will all turn to dust
as the tables will turn
i can see the agony in your eyes
when you finally realise
that thanks to you and all your kind
the earth is gonna burn
you only want a safe spot
for you and your disgusting kin
to live in, to breed in,
to carry on tradition
no concern for the seas
just pure fucking greed
its the instinct of survivals
ugliest head revealed
you say together
we’re put to the test
but its your system that caused this
now clean up your own fucking mess
the protogees
of the industrial revolution
will never be the solution
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Self proclaimed righteousness
supposed protection when in distress
but in their courts theres no appeal
behind the curtain were squashed under their heal
Nonsense mouthed politicians
with greasy palms
doesn’t seem to have a conscience
or any qualms
You got no business refusing me
Defending private property
You should be protecting the streets
And not some fucking company
Obedience and social control
A game for them to scare us all
One word and youre kicked and beat
In Security rooms without cctv
Intimidating watchdogs
in secret rooms without cctv
you get beaten to confession
In security rooms without cctv
From deciding punishment
And beat up nine year olds
Still its us they mistrust what
would we do without state control?
Absolute power absolutely corrupts
The human factors always fucks shit up.
Praised be this foolproof system with no
cracks cause Imprisoned years
cant be given back
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN
THEY WATCH US, BUT WHO WATCHES THEM?
TOO MUCH DEPENDS ON THE WHIM OF A FEW
THE WATCHMEN ARE JUST HUMANS TOO
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The world´s about to collide
It´s on collision course
As long as old men full of greed
Keep fighting their wars
This pathetic reign of waste
Will be over in haste
You´ll repent all yours evil ways
When your days have come to an end
You greedy little prick
You eat until your sick
While the retirees
Lie in their own shit
And the kids at school
They got no food
All because of you dick
Selling welfare with your businesstrix
Just to get another fix
You should fucking be ashamed
Filling up our public places
With false promises about shitty
Products and made up expectations
Retouched faces on starving bodies
Create an urge for impossible targets
A way to spend your hard earned money
A way to keep you on the grind
A way to keep your mind numb
A way to keep us all in line
Afraid to die
Egoistic strive to survive
Wasting time killing life
Earth greed or mankind has to die
Gots to die
Has got to die
A market raise in torture tools
Wherever you can snag a buck you know
Exporting it to the warlords
For population control
And forced consent
Of the masses
And while speaking of the word consent
When will you ever learn to keep your
dick stuck inside your pants
In this economic dealing of demise
Many countries have bloodied flags
And a Public treasury filled with vice
I wanna believe in humanity
But you’re making it so fucking hard
I light myself a cigarette even though
I know it´ll kill and fill my body with shit
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Obliteration
02:41
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A car bomb sets off and it lightens up the night sky
The explosion wakes you up while cop cars passes by
Suburbia is on fire and the stones are flying high
The people had enough the fight is on tonight
Throw a rock try to hit a cop
But don’t fuck up don’t be burning your own block
Media and the greedy politicians points their greasy fingers
At the poor lower class where the blame always lingers
Reporters giving money for pics of burning cars
It triggers the youth and sets a higher bar
Mr middle class sits safely in his livingroom
Condemning your ways try to vote you away..so
The sense of social exclusion
And basic day to day alienation
While the place you call home
Is dismantled into obliteration..can turn the
sanest human being insane and left with shame
instead of a sense of belonging
so please lets reveal the real cause of the problem
rather then a police funded quick fix to calm for a moment
the kids in the street knows something that wont be reported
do you think they feel empowered voting every forth year
participation breeds responsability
but there is none in our democracy
the represantation they see is police
but repression and mistrust never will bring peace
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Respecting by lying to à mothers face
Equally profiling by class and race
Protection by beating our defenseless youth
Looking away and denying the truth
Let the fascists march!
To an eerie beat of your shields and batons!
Standing above the law!
Justice for some is injustice for all.
The spirit of the corps is rotten to the core,
they got each others back, silent as a wall.
Report all you want, it wont make it far,
theyre untouchable and they know they are
We dont want their racial hate,
their fascist lies, their police state
Theyre not here to keep us safe,
but put the working class in place
Somewhere someday
in this fucked up world,
before it is too late
we have to make our voices heard.
Today its their kids, tommorrow yours,
do you rember 1944?
Do they really have to come for you,
before you know whats right to do?
We dont want their racial hate,
their fascist lies, their police state
Theyre not here to keep us safe,
but help the rich impose their ways
We dont want their racial hate,
their fascist lies, their police state
Theyre not here to keep us safe,
theyre here to protect property
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Hordes of God
02:56
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Just as i thought the hordes of god
Had decreased in number for eternal slumber
This party of die hard fools
Gay bashing regressive tools
Crawled up to the surface
To throw books in the furnace
Blinded by their phony creed
Mighty reclusive and stubborn indeed
Oh how numbing it would be
To undoubtfully blindly believe
These stories written down
By men who wore the crown
Just apply it to modern day times
And your free to condemn, kill, harass and rape
As long as in the name of jesus christ
You call abortion murder due to
Disrespect of all, even unborn life
While homosexuals in your book of lies
Ain´t got no fucking rights
While at the same time you talk widely
About respect and equality
Amongst all women, children and men
If they follow the golden ten
And rape ain´t even one of them?! what the fuck is up with that?
Oh how numbing it would be
To undoubtfully blindly believe
These stories written down
By men who wore the crown
Just apply it to modern day times
And your free to condemn, kill, harass and rape
As long as in the name of jesus christ
So we´ll cut of your steeples
We´ll mutilate your jesus
Chop your crosses into pieces
we´ll re-educate your sheeples
we´ll put your religion on permanent recess
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MCMXCVII
04:32
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It all started out in 1997,
My best friend was ten and i was eleven,
a beat up old drum kit and my fathers guitar,
we would never break up no we would go far
nowhere to run and nowhere to go,
a bombshelter under our school became our second home.
Do what we want in the absence of laws,
forget about our problems and never walk alone
Friday night and we were ready for our first show
They turned off the music in the middle of the disco
Three scared kids with spikes studs and mohawks
No one had a clue what the fuck was going on.
We played all our four songs twice in a row.
Fuck this disco, have you never seen a punk show?
couldn´t care less about the idiots that laughed
we created something on our own that they would never have.
its not a trend, its not a fashion
its my love my life my passion
its a way of life and i never give in
we take care of one another
in this never ending struggle
its a state of mind and my identity
Always was is and always gonna be
A big fucking part of me, punken är mitt liv
And thats the idea, the lesson ive learned
If you used to be punk, you never were
Still losing money, still losing sleep,
still hating life, still hating police
still taking my time to perfect the d beat
still got love for the streets
its a way of life and it is how we live
never grow up never give in
we live the revolution its a state of mind
class war, d-beat, DIY
fuck all you posers you dont know what its about
class war, backbeat, DIY
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