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“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”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. 🫠
“Please tell me it’ll be okay”
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me! x14
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
The unfortunate thing about this lyric is that people who have been asked to do nothing more than help keep our fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated, think this is for them.
not to mention that the context of standing up to unjust government policing was reinterpreted by 90s skateboard kids as “be a dick to your teachers and parents”
And, fuck you!! I won’t do what you tell me!!
Fuck me and I’ll tell you what to do.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office.
From wikipedia:
Zack de la Rocha sometimes changed the lyrics in the second verse from “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses” to “Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office” when playing live.
“Fuck the police”
Stuffing corpses full of shit and pain.
They bloviate about a future beyond the moon. To bring about another planet’s doom
To discover peaceful life and beat our war-drum to its tune Unless my prayers are answered
Our end is coming soon.
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne
The rest of their discography is fantastic, but their lyrics in this album which penned by their former bass player is just another league.
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
- Pink Floyd, Time
The older I get the less I like that one
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. - Freewill by Rush.
It’s when murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one gun salute for the new Independence Day
One Gun by Lamb of God
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
You can check out, but you can never leave.
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
In particular I like the last line.
“It’s all true, but you’re still an asshole”.
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.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
They do quiet, existential despair like no-one else.
It’s the English way
Wish you were here is next level on that front
