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Never Be Moved Lyrics
I know we came here to get our good times on,
Hold the whole world in our hand and greet the dawn with open arms.
So make a contribution if you have been amused
But before we depart my brothers and sisters I have some heavy news.
Oh how it breaks my heart this photograph.
Several in the ministry practice a fuzzy math.
And some of us wear the robes of the righteous
Are a little more next of kin
To the Sleestak, the wicked one who makes a meal of our sins.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Woe be the architect of our city, cruel leveler, the hillock strangler.
Bold pusher of the cold bone index
Through the knotted bowels of the old alleyways.
Read the future a false haruspex.
Recall how he coaxed us out of the green plains.
All of us, dumb eyed at the sheer number. So long ago it does not matter.
Woe be architect in his slumber, for the Watcher never sleeps.
And on that day there will be rejoicing and dancing streets.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Get your evolution on.
Good St. Charles Darwin wrote his gospel down
So keep your eyes turned to the sky and your ears down to the ground.
Get your evolution on.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Hold the whole world in our hand and greet the dawn with open arms.
So make a contribution if you have been amused
But before we depart my brothers and sisters I have some heavy news.
Several in the ministry practice a fuzzy math.
And some of us wear the robes of the righteous
Are a little more next of kin
To the Sleestak, the wicked one who makes a meal of our sins.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Bold pusher of the cold bone index
Through the knotted bowels of the old alleyways.
Read the future a false haruspex.
Recall how he coaxed us out of the green plains.
All of us, dumb eyed at the sheer number. So long ago it does not matter.
Woe be architect in his slumber, for the Watcher never sleeps.
And on that day there will be rejoicing and dancing streets.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
So keep your eyes turned to the sky and your ears down to the ground.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
Ain’t no telling how much longer but we will never be moved.
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If this song could be boiled down to a single line, it would be “So keep your eyes turned to the sky and your ears down to the ground.” Like many songs from the album Robot Hive/Exodus, the song Never Be Moved deals with themes of (de)industrialization, technology, religion, community, and propaganda, but this one in particular feels like a rallying cry to the working class; a reminder to temper idealism with organized action.
[Edit: misquoted "turned" as "raised"]
To me this song seems to be about the devoutly religious waiting for the return of the messiah and that they won't be swayed by the growing acceptance of darwinism.
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@phildo123 I might be wrong and 5 years too late but I think it's about how Darwinism itself has become sort of a religion. I dunno...
@phildo123 I might be wrong and 5 years too late but I think it's about how Darwinism itself has become sort of a religion. I dunno...