Roll On Lyrics
Excellent driving tune. Here in Toronto, there is city workers on strike and I am sick of hearing about it....so I called the radio station EDGE 102.1 fm...and dedicated this song to all the strikers. WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOO
I can tell you, they had a lot of angry callers after that.
i think the band put it best when they said "a stomping song for the underdog".if anyone's really overly interested, go to the MUA(maritime workers union, i think)site to read up on all the late 90's wharfie strikes that this was written about....v.cool ps.drunken pirate?lol
squee is probably right.
I was just learning about a mining strike that was organized by this dude in the 1900's that got all the immigrants and everyone (the union) to strike, and they got 90% of the mines closed. They wouldnt go back to work unless they get better pay.
This song rox.
this song is about dock workers in melbourne australia going on strike. the song's got such a fucking catch beat
This is most certainly about the 1988 stevedore strikes. In order to try and compromise pay and conditions the biggest port company in Australia (and I believe the world too) tried to renegotiate contracts. When it failed and Union workers picketed the docks they imported non-union Labor and eventually tried to pay ex soldiers and mercenaries to do the job instead. It all ended when the Unions pretty much won out but in the long term a lot changed at a much slower pace.
In the lyrics it is pretty clear. "Too much work and not enough pay", because the employers were asking for longer hours and less breaks for the same pay (and quite dangerous high skill work too). "We'll protest in peace", pickets have a history of violence but it would have turned public opinion against the unions (the government were very anti-union). The last bit is about how they might win or lose but things were going to change anyway (which they have). It doesn't end on a downer though, the idea is that individually it can be futile but together everyone can keep the dream alive.
The Living end are also Melbourne boys and Melbourne has always had a Union background. It is actually the place where the 888 movement started (8 hours work, 8 hours rest and 8 hours for family) and eventually set the world standard for a working day.
The Living End are definitely pro-union, they dedicated this song to striking electricians when they played in DC 4 years ago. The end of the song is about how the company will treat you if the union looses. the last verse is the company saying that they will fire the workers because they are expendable and replacable, just like cogs in a machine, if they dont go back to work and then the chorus is the union rebutting, saying "we'll roll on with our heads held high"-in other words, the struggle will continue.
I LOVE THIS SONG! reminds me of being a drunken pirate
:):):) mad song :):):)
lmao, thats frigin hilarious Werd, not what i expected to see, hahahaha.
this song is about a strike. simple. done.
lol thats funny. yeah, this song roxz0rz.