Preemptive Strike

DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike Lyrics
1.Strike 1

One more time for the people
Whoa...
Now, wait a minute
I'm about to bust it
Ready?


2.In flux

It's a song about life, death, love, hate, wealth, poverty,
racism...
just a few things been runnin' through my head...

Listen...
We call on you...
Listen...
Now, we call on you...
Be strong...
Hear us now!...

When you speak of overthrowing those conditions,
I think this is what frightens people from the freedom of...
The average American, when you simply say the word overthrow,
may see this as something very, very bad...
I know you're not responsible for his feelings,
But, when you say these things, are you threatening someone?

Right now...
People's power
People's power
People's... power

Detroit in '42...
New York in '64...
Blinding by a hundred watts...
The naked, black, white truth...

Destroy the establishment, tear down the face of stupidity and
corruption
And put up in it's place, an edifice of truth...
Unite in struggle for people's power...
Unite, unite, unite, truth...
Unite in struggle for people's power...
We are a part of those concerned with gangs...

Meanwhile, uptown, the dj a player...

Everybody's so concerned about heroin and marijuana and all
that,
Until they forget the most dangerousest narcotic that exist's,
And that's the narcotic that's injected into the minds of
infants...
It's called social narcotics...

So, you know as well as I do that things are changing...
Yeah, change, you know...

Meanwhile, uptown, the dj a player...
Revolution...

Yeah, change, you know...
My gift... Make music...

So I say you youngster's gotta get a job
Work to change the system...
Definacy... Equal, justice...
...Submission...
...Moving on...
...The people's power...

...Ghetto wack, lining my ears...
...My gift... Make music...

Change, change, change
It's only a matter of time
Change, change, change
It's only a matter of time
Change, change, change
It's only a matter of time
Change, change, change, change, change, change
It's only a matter of time

Freedom! (Freedom!)...
That's all that life is...

The record ends and we must begin again...


3.Hindsigh

The tracks go off in this direction...
(sample from star wars...)


4.Strike 2

So Shadow, tell me what you mean...
Wait!
Exactly, is what I'm saying...
You got the power up to ten and what?
And, and, you can't keep it there...
Yeah, ok, the power is up to ten, but eventually you're gonna
play a record that's quiet, alright?
Ohh, ohh
And then what happens?
Well that's um...
Then, then you just get...


5.What does your soul look like(Part 2)

We are standing here at the edge of time...
Cold...
Our road was paved to the edge of time...
Steel... Sparks...
Come with me now to the edge of time...
Does anyone remember who I am?

In a few moments you will have an experience which will seem
completely real...
It will be the result of your subconscious fears, transformed to
your conscious awareness...
You have five seconds to terminate this tape...
Five, four, three, two, one

Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody inside?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody inside?

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high.
And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long, and
all night...
Once in a while he let's you steal a pot,
But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose,
And once you've lost, there's no way back...
No way at all...

The time has come

Darkness!
Darkness! darkness! darkness!
Da-da-da-da-darkness!

The time has come
The time has come

Can you feel this?
What is that buzzing?
Are you now, or have you ever, moved slowly?
(THX 1138 Movie Sample)


6.What does your soul look like(Part 3)

I'm asking you to make a small quantum jump with me, to accept
one deviant concept...
That our other states of consciousness are as real! as our
waking state and that these can be externalized...

We're beyond mass and energy, beyond even energy,
what we're back to is the first thought!
We're beyond mass and energy, beyond even energy,
what we're back to is the first thought!


7.What does your soul look like(Part 4)

(From the movie Dead calm)

Come talk to me...
Come on triggy man...
Come on, the camera's rolling...
Get that fucking bad thing...
Lose that...
Talk to me...
Who are you?...

Come on chopper male, chopper male sucker!
Got the gusto? - Come on!
In Vietnam!...

And...
And yet, I've just got to do something...
Because, I... I see I'm god, or something...
God...

I am superior to that...
Everyone is dead, or should I call in for the central right now?
And stand naked, with a hurt expression
Until it burns me up!

S.O.S
S.O.S

Away, come away, come away

S...


8.What does your soul look like(Part 1)

And why should we,
Want to go back where we were, how many years?

All my life I've found


And why should we


9.Strike 3(And I'm Out)

Listen to me
I'm gonna make you as comfortable as i can
But you aint gonna be totally comfortable
So, get hip to that already
In other words, i'm sure it's gonna be cool
And i'll work with you, so don't get frustrated by nothin'
I'll work with you on this level, so right now let me just run
the track
Just listen to the track, ok
Just listen to the track
Man, can you run that track for me


10.High noon

You will hear my heart and the circle (circuit?) will be
complete...

(from 'The answer is No' by The Giant Crab)


11.Organ donor (extended recall)(Extended Recall)

You got an organ goin' there (no wonder the sound has so much
body) x 2