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Take Back the Space
03:19
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Dark is the night in which we walk
And so the day full of their talk
And public space belongs to they
The invisible hand and the phallic gaze
Take back the night
Take back the day
Take back the soul
Take back the space
He's at the door and we're at the gates
He's ringing the bell and we're making it shake
The lock's off the door, the door's off the frame
The frame's off the wall and the wall's a pile of bricks again
Take back the night
Take back the day
Take back the soul
Take back the space
The moon is big and the moon is red
The sun is dark and the beast is dead
The stars all fall down off the walls
Down on their knees with everybody else
Take back the night
Take back the day
Take back the soul
Take back the space
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Trouble in the Empire
03:04
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All you people want to make a living by instilling fear into our women
Well we're not down with that
All you people want to make your money by selling dreams of plastic honeys
Well we're not down with that
All you people want to take your knives up to our daughters and to our wives
Well we're not down with that
All you people want to make quick bucks by marketing a culture of cheap lust
Well we're not down with that
Not going to buy it
We're not down with that
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I'm going to drag my burdens through the streets
I'm going to drag these chains, wrapped round my feet
And as I'm walking, I'm going to make you see
What this empire is doing to me
I don't want to take my medicine or be a good boy today
I don't want to go and buy something nice to take these blues away
I don't want a lobotomy - I don't want to watch the TV
I don't want to be pacified like everything's ok
We're going to drag our burdens through the streets
We're going to drag these chains, wrapped round our feet
And as we're walking, you're going to know too
What this empire is doing to you
All you men of sorrows and all you women of grief
All you stoney faces passing in the streets
All you sleeping tigers, hit by tranquilisers
All you kids been lied to for the last time by these cheats
We're going to drag our burdens through the streets
We're going to drag these chains, wrapped round our feet
And as we're walking, you're going to know too
What this empire is doing to you
Yes there will be trouble, and yes there will be grief
'Cause all these greedy shepherds don't care nothing for the sheep
The shepherds all are scheming but the sheep won't long be dreaming
'Cause there's One who watches over all and you know He doesn't sleep
We're going to drag our burdens through the streets
We're going to drag these chains, wrapped round our feet
And as we're walking, you're going to know too
What this empire is doing to you
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Ride That Beast
05:04
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One day in Babylon there was lies and money to be spun
Lies and money to be spun
So the Beast made himself a ladder, that all women should be judged upon its rungs
And scored from 10 - 1
And so the lie that womankind would find her only meaning in men's eyes
Only in men's eyes
Gave rise to a way of life and death that was made of fear and lies
Only fear and lies
Ride that beast darling, like you know you've been told to do
Ride that beast darling, even though you know he doesn't give a damn about you
And so the cries of the oppressed reached the beast there as he rested in his home
On his bed of precious stones
And so he started industries selling sexual empowerment to all
the women of the world
And the businesses they made theirselfs more money than you can burn up there in the sun
And all the suns beyond
But the sexual empowerment they sold lasted only as long
As it takes a man to cum
Ride that beast darling, like you know you've been told to do
Ride that beast darling, even though you know he doesn't give a damn about you
And so it seemed that many dreamed of being seen there up the ladder's hights
Amongst the stars of night
And the industries picked out promising young girls to be deified in lights
Giving glory to their might
And the Godesses were hung up there in public space till there's no place to hide
No place left to hide
But their empowerment means nothing - they're working the streets and making money for a bunch of liars
Pimps in suits and ties
Ride that beast darling, like you know you've been told to do
Ride that beast darling, even though you know he doesn't give a damn about you
And so woman hid dispirited behind the false identities he's sold
There in his perverted hold
An oppression that was never to be spoken of and never to be told
Never to be told
And the beast said "please don't take it so seriously darling it's just a game!"
"Really it's just a game!"
"But on the other hand, in my land you ain't worth nothing if you won't play"
"So you'd better play..."
Ride that beast darling, like you know you've been told to do
Ride that beast darling, even though you know he doesn't give a damn about you
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Judgment
02:26
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Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
And the clouds'll be His horses
When men begin to frown
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
All you earth destroyers
With your evil greedy eye
Enslaving nations for cheap labour
And feed your own on lies
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
And all you filthy liars
Talk about freedom all day long
But you enslave youe people for profits
And you know your time is going to come
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
Better get ourselves together
And shave our sorry heads
Because Jesus is coming that morning
And the West had better repent
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
When Jesus's tired of pleading
And He won't plead no more
He'll call the whole world together
And He'll judge us one and all
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
And as for we here gathered
Can't say we never took part
So we'll be right there on our knees
Repentance in our hearts
Better get ready for judgement
Better get ready for judgement morning
Better get ready for judgement
Our God is coming down
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O My People
02:45
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O my people, what are you to me now?
Something inbetween us all
Something pushed us all out
What are you to me now?
What am I to you now?
But I still want to be part of you
Cry out to the sky above you
O my people, what are you to me now?
Numbed and segregated
Alone, each in his own house
What are you to me now?
What am I to you now?
But I still want to be part of you
Cry out to the sky above you
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O the tyranny of the giant faces over me and my children
O the tyranny of the dreams and fantasies of the state religion
Stole my dreams and sold them back to me at the price of what they were selling
Sold me dreams and stole them back from me right when I seemed top enter their heaven
We let advertisers raise our children
O LORD
Have mercy
The Tyranny
Stole my heart and disregarded it as an illegitimate story
Sold me dreams that never did last but filled my heart with selfish envy
We let advertisers raise our children
O LORD
Have mercy
The Tyranny
O the tyranny of the giant faces over thee and thy children
O the tyranny of the dreams and fantasies of the state religion
We let advertisers raise our children / I'm not a believer anymore
O LORD
Have mercy
The Tyranny
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Wake Up Dry Bones
04:02
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David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK
David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.
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