Common Dreads

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1.Common Dreads

A needless and harrowing future is developing for our generation
and generations to come

But as I walk the chartered streets of this familiar oblivion,
I recognise nothing but unweilding conciousness,
in which we have almost comfortably drowned
It is madness
This normality is madness
We are clinging to manufactured crippled constraints
We must no longer commute between brand-ladened homes,
and quickly accepted aimless roams from our factories of
slavery,
to raws of elusive bravery
We must unite!

And we must let the flood gates open
Here tonight, I clock a thousand heads
Here to unite, through common dreads


2.Solidarity

Here tonight I clock a thousand heads
Here to unite, through common dreads
Now who's with me? (Oh!)
Now who's with me? (Oh!)

Something drips inside that's building for a thousand years
Now we can no longer hide the immediacy of these fears
Our names will not be written on water
And we don't need an honour (No way!)
One day I know the dam will collapse
And we will be the current!

Yes... what have you got for me?

We will sing as one in solidarity, we will swim together
No longer treading water, we're flowing with the tide
And you can taste the light, don't waste the light
We will sing as one in solidarity, we will sing together now
And still we will be here, standing like statues
Yeah! The time is now, friends and brothers
We will sing as one in solidarity,

we will sing together (We're not hiding)


3.Step Up

If our own lives aren't directly affected,
then it don't need to be corrected
Our fucking gift is our ignorance
Yeah, we're really serious
As they're paying for deliverence
We shut ourselves from the outcries
We blinker ourselves from the eyesores
'cause we know we've got greatness within us

(We have greatness within us;
innovative, giving, determined -
it's time for the best in us to come out)

And you can find inbalance
You can destroy inbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today

Yes, solid

Now let me get one thing straight
You know what?
Sometimes I do wish apples were our currency
So the hoarded millions rot in their vaults
And that'd teach you to lay off the assualt
That you're barraging on the lands of the poor
And I know we've all got enough problems of our own
But-but they're not show stoppers sitting on our throne in a
home
Heated by a life unknown to the exploited

And it's so frustrating; the fucking state we're in!

If our own lives aren't directly affected,
then it don't need to be corrected
Our fucking gift is our ignorance
Yeah, we're really serious
As they're paying for deliverence
We shut ourselves from the outcries
We blinker ourselves from the eyesores

And you can find inbalance
You can destroy inbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today

And you can find inbalance
You can destroy inbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today


4.Juggernauts

And I know that we've still got time,
but I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign,
'cause I do not think we're invincible
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path

Now don't get me wrong,
I love what you've done with the place
I just wish we had a chance to help build it
Instead of just moving into this home of disrepair
And expected to work, prosper, and then share
Constantly relying on consuming to feel content
But only because we lost touch with this home that we spent
Trillions of dollars training for our wants and not our needs
And now we've grown tired of planting bleary-eyed seeds

And I'm not saying that we could do better,
but given the chance we'd try (We'd try)
We'd dig up the Earth's trampled soil,
and fill the trench with greedy eyes
I'm not saying that we could do better,
but given the chance we'd try
We'd dig up the Earth's trampled soil,
and fill the trench with greedy eyes

(And back in the day this used to be a nice place,
but when we start to contain we start questioning the future)

Switch!

And I know that we've still got time,
but I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign;
deep breathes, clenched fists
here comes another juggernaut!
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path

What the hell will happen now?!
I really don't know, man!
We'll do what we've always done
Shut our eyes and hope for the best
No! We've got to face this
And step out onto the tracks
And stare it right in the face
Thou shall not pass!

And I know that we've still got time,
but I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign,
'cause I do not think we're invincible
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path
Crushing all in its path

And I know that we've still got time,
but I do not think we're invincible
And I thinking that it's a sign;
deep breathes, clenched fists -
here comes another juggernaut!

And I know that we've still got time,
but I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign,
and I do not think we're invincible
And I hope that we've still got time,
'cause I do not think we're invincible
The idea of 'community'
will be something displayed at a museum


5.Wall

I'm gonna paste you up, cover you in wallpaper
Screw some holes into you
They call you a wall
They saw you asking me, trying to keep people inside
Inside your sorded little house
This is no way to go
You can ask any or choose to tuck up inside your knees
I'll hang a painting on your lip
And put tinsel 'round it at Christmas

Gonna keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house
Trying to keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house

You can't keep us inside much longer pal
We've seen the view from the windows
You can't keep us inside much longer pal
We've seen the view from the windows

It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the time?
(____________) We need ________ too
It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the time?
(____________) We need ________ too

As time keeps moving, we keep losing
Our _______ freedom is not the choices
Between one job, and one car
You can just look back into history
To find religion and mystery
And if you don't take note,
you end up in the same boat

Gonna keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house
Trying to keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house

It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the time?
(____________) We need ________ too
It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the time?
(____________) We need ________ too
Have you seen the time?

Break your teeth and break the glass
Now sprint and don't look back
________ isn't the best for this
Watch your thoughts all ionising
Watch your thoughts all ________ rising

Gonna keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house
Trying to keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house
Gonna keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house
Trying to keep people inside,
inside your sorded little house


6.Zzzonked


7.Havoc A

The Lions are at the door
We aint taking orders from snakes no more

The Lions are at the door, yeh
We aint taking orders from snakes no more
Knock, Knock!

Yeh! How'd you like that boy?

It's another day in the Acid Nation
expected to go down hindrance
Hold tight the Real News Network
They're crucial


8.No Sleep Tonight

And I'm thinking what's the deal?
With the facts that they conceal
And I'm thinking what's the harm?
in a bit of RHETORIC AND charm
And I can't quite comprehend
a beginning or an end
No I can't quite STOMACH this now

You and me we're gonna take
to the skies for common sake
We'll fly amongst the CIRRUS clouds
TWENTY THOUSAND FEET WE'LL PLUCK THE CROWDS
And from that height we'll leak the lies
and unveal the damages skies
'Cause we can't quite STOMACH this

You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight

The sun and sea could power us
No longer cower in our own (glass?)
CHENOBYL IS STILL A STAIN
OF THE DANGERS OF THIS GAME
I still can't quite comprehend
A beginning or an end
No I can't quite STOMACH this

You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight

BUT WE'LL WALK ON A GREAT _____ TO THE SUN (?)
And we'll be 90 million miles from anything or anyone
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?

You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight

BUT WE'LL WALK ON A GREAT _____ TO THE SUN (?)
And we'll be 90 million miles from anything or anyone
Just like the OCEAN we won't be PACIFIC ANYMORE
____________________ SPECIES, THIS IS FLAWED

You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight
You're not getting any sleep tonight


9.Gap In The Fence

I lie here
staring up at the stratosphere
and hoping we're gonna get out of here

And it seems mad
that we're born on the doorstep
of squalor and of pedistools

And I lie here
surrounded by a range of general anaesthetics

To drowse the fact that funding insecurity
is not matched by spreading equality

(Now you hear us singing)
In the sunlight
where you caught us,
plotting the downfall of hoarders
In the sunlight where you caught us

(You hear them singing)
In the sunlight
where you caught us,
plotting the downfall of hoarders
In the sunlight where you caught us

It seems that every gap in the fence
we'll peak, we'll scratch, we'll stretch,
we'll grab anything we can

And if we group together
and made a bigger whole
that just for our children's hands
but for bigger plans

Yeah if we group together
and made a whole
'cause I don't know about you
but I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here

I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here

I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here

We will fall
so turbulently
accepting all the amnesty

Trenching through tame
Dousing us for sane
And yes granted we prosper
but the fact that we prosper
is even taken for granted


10.Havoc B

Now let's cause some fucking havoc!

The lions are at the door,
We ain't taking order from snakes no more.
The lions are at the door, yeah!
We ain't taking order from snakes no more.

Stand by...
Recieving...
stand by for a second message.

Now we're gonna take a stand,
For we are the Grassroots Resistance!
Now we're gonna take a stand,
For we are the Grassroots Resistance!
Power!

All this killing is obscene!
Shut down the war machine!


11.Antwerpen

Now I was feeling like a total giant!
But now it feels like Silvius Brabo has sliced my hand off
and thrown it in the river!

Man, I was just doing my job,
my feet sink into the bed of the Schledt.
But now my fingers are reeling about with the fishes.

I know I'm not making any sense
(no you're not)
all will be revealed
(well i hope so)
all will be revealed
if we travel back in time

I've got to rest, it's for the best
to build a nest, to take the quest
to be given just one chance,
to be the best

Go forth and re-colonise.
go forth and re-colonise.

It appears the foundations
of all our great nations
are lies and indoctrinations.
So if Silvius Brabo collects the hands of giants...
will you join him?


12.The Jester

Hold your horses
Steady now
Cos we're floating precariously
And therefore, futhermore _______ on tectonic plates

And everything we stand on
And everything we stand for
Is rather unstable right now

So I think I'll kill some time
And have you done medium rare
But I think I'll tease my palette with some crudites
Just to prepare

You see we've had a Joker in the pack now for quite some time
So I think it's about time we roast this swine

Lets throw it up and start again

Nicely does it now...
Steady...
Halt...
Halt...
Have some of this one (?)

Oh that was great
My compliments to the chef
Im very satisfied
You know I'll be sure to dine here again
A fine cuisine
Stuffed cheeks were very agreeable
All in all a splendid spread


13.Halcyon


14.Hectic

To the multi story car park;
With our friends
drinking from a bottle
of white lightning

What's happened fucks his spot
%%undecipherable%% smoking chronic,
Hectic!

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can

We'll convene at mine
3PM to play
Sega Megadrive
Golden axe and sonic all day
have you played it? (I'll teach ya)
Tried to hack it? (I'll beat ya)
Whilst Pendell makes it rhyme in the corner with a litre of
finest Scrumpy Jack
Whilst PDEX pops out the latest big club track
We'll take it to Justin's and hit his King Kong
then we'll gather round a piano for a little sing song.

Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
the one that melts softest from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.

Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
the one that melts softest from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.

All false Halcyon days
and Halcyon nights
Before we begin to realize
that these aren't right.

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can

and it seems like
nothing that will ever change.
and it seems like
well alright i can


15.Fanfare For The Concious Man

Each nation used to provide its country with security
with factories providing arms for their country
Now multinational companies compete in the arms trade
to serve any customer, maximising the money to be made

So just as farms compete to provide fruit for other countries
so people can live to enjoy the taste of nature
National warehouses compete to provide arms around the world
to aid death and all hell unfolds.

Our gracious queen should grasp her crown
and take a good fucking swing at Blair and Brown
for leading her countries to illegal warfare
and trying to pass it off that we're doing 'cause we care.

Now pre-emptive of wars are a redemptive cause
I've never heard such nonsense under international laws
We think we have the right to enforce democracy
when we're weakening ours everyday
What hypocrisy.

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

Fuck man
I just woke up to a land where killing is part of every day
and every mind in this intelligent species
is then blinded into the battlefield
like it's natural for us to break instead of build

Unities intrinsic the only cause worth fighting for,
all religions, colours and creeds

Now we are the world and we are the people
We are the world and we are the people
and we will be heard.

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this