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Gandhi Mate, Gandhi Lyrics
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think the primary purpose of your life, of my life and the entirety of the human race is just to blindingly consume to support a failing economy and a faulty system. Forever and ever until we run out of every resource and have to resort to blowing each other up to ensure our own survival.
I don't think we're supposed to sit by idle, whilst we continue to use a long outdated system, that produces war, poverty, collusion, corruption, ruins our environment and threatens every aspect of our health, and does nothing but divide and segregate us.
I don't think how much military equipment we are selling to other countries, how many hydrocarbons we're burning, how much money is being printed and exchanged, is a good measure of how healthy our society is.
But I do think I can speak for everyone when I say:
We're sick of this shit!
Time to mobilise
Time to open eyes
We are not a quiet pocket of resistance
This is real
And we cannot afford to fail
Act with, act with persistence
This is real
And we cannot afford to fail
"I am the established order, respect me and fear me"
Fuck you, we hold no respect!
And when tomorrow comes
We're gonna stamp on your head
Pig!
"Calm down!"
"Calm down, mate!"
"Calm the fuck down!"
"Gandhi mate, remember Gandhi"
"Alright, alright I'm fine"
"See, if we keep them silent, then they'll resort to violence
And that's how we criminalise change"
Awww, yabba dabba do one, son
We don't want your rules
Who you fooling, son?
We've got all the tools
We need to build a whole new system
To correct these flaws
"Yeah, like what?"
I've already listed them
"You're a communist, you're a fucking utopianist!"
Ah, there come the emotive labels
But their attempt just fails
'Cause man, we're so far out your comfort zone
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, we think, we begin to revive
We begin to revive
Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Transmit emergency frequencies
Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Put the call out, put the call out, put the call out
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Piece by piece
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
I don't think we're supposed to sit by idle, whilst we continue to use a long outdated system, that produces war, poverty, collusion, corruption, ruins our environment and threatens every aspect of our health, and does nothing but divide and segregate us.
I don't think how much military equipment we are selling to other countries, how many hydrocarbons we're burning, how much money is being printed and exchanged, is a good measure of how healthy our society is.
But I do think I can speak for everyone when I say:
We're sick of this shit!
Time to mobilise
Time to open eyes
We are not a quiet pocket of resistance
This is real
And we cannot afford to fail
Act with, act with persistence
This is real
And we cannot afford to fail
"I am the established order, respect me and fear me"
Fuck you, we hold no respect!
And when tomorrow comes
We're gonna stamp on your head
Pig!
"Calm down!"
"Calm down, mate!"
"Calm the fuck down!"
"Gandhi mate, remember Gandhi"
"Alright, alright I'm fine"
"See, if we keep them silent, then they'll resort to violence
And that's how we criminalise change"
Awww, yabba dabba do one, son
We don't want your rules
Who you fooling, son?
We've got all the tools
We need to build a whole new system
To correct these flaws
"Yeah, like what?"
I've already listed them
"You're a communist, you're a fucking utopianist!"
Ah, there come the emotive labels
But their attempt just fails
'Cause man, we're so far out your comfort zone
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, we think, we begin to revive
We begin to revive
Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Transmit emergency frequencies
Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Put the call out, put the call out, put the call out
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Oh and the jigsaw starts to build
Piece by piece
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Open their minds
Transmit emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies
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This is like the 3 hour long docu Zeitgeist Moving Forward, in one song. :D
I think these lyrics speak for themselves.. so powerful and so true.
Just a few small mistakes: "resource and fall to the result to blowing" is "resource and have to resort to blowing" "to sit by either while" - "to sit by idle while" "Army, establish order" - "I am the established order" "We have no respect" - "We hold no respect" "We don't want you rules"- "We don't want your rules" "(You know what)" - "(Yeh like what?)" "Ah here they come, the immersive labels" - "There come the emotive labels" "But they're attempted fails" - "But their attempt just fails"
Huh.. The song seems as if there are two speakers.. The shifting of contradicting lines being shouted and all that
Anyway, great song