WE ARE THE BUSKERS YEAH WE'RE CALLED THE BLACK CLOWNS IT'S LATE AT NIGHT WE'RE OUT HEADING FOR HOME STOP IN THE NON STOP FOR A FAST FOOD FRY THREE NAZIS COME UP GET US FROM BEHIND HIT US WITH BOTTLES MR KRUSTY GOES DOWN HE GETS RIGHT BACK UP AND THEY LEFT ON THE RUN IF THEY COME FOR YOU GOTTA STAND ON YOUR FEET IF THEY COME FOR US GOTTA STAND ON OUR FEET NOW YOU MIGHT THINK THAT WE WERE VIOLENT AND WRONG BUT WHEN I KICKED IN HIS FACE I ONLY FELT CALM THEY ATTACKED US WE DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT THREE WEEKS LATER THEY KILL A SUDANESE BOY WITH THEIR KNIFE YOU CAN MAKE WEAPONS OUTTA INTERESTING THINGS OUT OF PADLOCKS AND CHAINS EVEN DOG FOOD TINS TIN GOT A BIG DENT FOOD WAS ALRIGHT THE NAZI WENT DOWN HE WAS OUT OF THAT FIGHT I TRULY BELIEVE THERE'S MORE OF US THAN OF THEM BUT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE READY TO FIGHT AGAINST THEM LIKE THE TIME BEFORE THE TIME THAT I TELL WE JUST WATCH THEM PASS US CHANTING SIEG HEIL WE'RE TOO SCARED AND SHOCKED TO DO ANYTHING THEY WERE FOLLOWING A BLACK WOMAN AND I STILL FEEL ASHAMED IF THEY COME FOR YOU GOTTA STAND ON YOUR FEET IF THEY COME FOR US GOTTA STAND ON OUR FEET NO MORE BYSTANDER APATHY NOW IT'S TWENTIETH APRIL HITLER'S BIRTHDAY NIGHT IN A FOOTBALL RAMPAGE HE GOES DOWN IN THE FIGHT PUTS HIS HAND TO HIS HEAD WHEN HE AWOKE HIS FINGER SLIPS INTO THE WOUND TOUCHES BONE A WEEK LATER ON THE ANTI FASCIST COME UP SEE THAT BLOOD ON MY BOOT HE GOT HIS COME UP I'VE SEEN THTAT FASCIST IN MANY A PLACE IT'S NOT WHAT THEY WEAR NO IT'S IN THE FACE WITH LONG HAIR SKINHEADS SUITS AND TIES THE POLICE PROTECT THEM WHILE THEY ORGANISE TO THE HAMMER SKINS OUT THERE IN CZECH TO THE BNP AND IN FRANCE LE PENN TO NATIONAL ACTION AND THE KKK TO THE NAZI IN THE STREET AND THE POLITICAL PARTY IF YOU'RE GENUINE THEN WE WANT YOU TO DIE IF YOU'RE GENUINE THEN WE WANT YOU TO DIE OUR IDEALS THEY ARE OF LOVE AND THE FASCIST IDEAL IS TO KILL IF THEY COME FOR US GOTTA STAND ON OUR FEET

FOOD OFF THE GROUND FOOD OFF THE GROUND SINCE I WAS A KID I EAT FOOD OFF THE GROUND ALL MY LIFE I EAT FOOD OFF THE GROUND TASTE IS NICE FOOD IS FREE FOOD NOT BOMBS FOOD NOT BOMBS GONNA EAT SOME FOOD NOT BOMBS SOUP KITCHEN SOUP KITCHEN HEADING OUT TO THE SOUP KITCHEN TASTE IS NICE FOOD IS FREE EAT CAUSE WE'RE BORED EAT CAUSE WE'RE BORED IN THE WEST WE EAT CAUSE WE'RE BORED TASTE IS NICE FOOD IS FREE TASTE IS NICE FEEL LAZY

ROUND THE FIRE IN A COLD COLD CAMP MUD MEDIA NOT MUCH FOOD CUTTING HOLES IN THE SECURITY FENCES DIGGING TUNNELS SMASHING MACHINES HERE COME THE CLIMBERS HERE COME THE POLICE CHIPPING THE LOCK ON HEY GRIT YOUR TEETH THE CLOTHES WE WEAR AS PROTEST BECOME THE FASHION OF THE NIGHTCLUB SET GOT THE LOOK BUT ARE YOU DOING IT SHE SITS CRIES ON THE TREE STUMP MONTHS BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN WAS WON NOT BY US THE ROAD WENT IN YOU KNOW THE BASIC FACTS BY NOW DON'T NEED MORE ROADS DON'T NEED MORE CARS TOXINS ACCUMULATE IN HUMAN FAT INSECTS DO CHANGE AND ADAPT PLANTS WITH DESIGNER GENES PASS THE MUTATION TO YOU AND ME IN THE WEST YOU'RE OUT ON BAIL THE AFRICAN ACTIVIST IS KILLED BY SHELL IT NOT ABOUT SAVING THE PLANET IT'S ABOUT FIGHTING BACK THEY SAY A HEALTHY ECONOMY EQUALS A HEALTHY LIFE THAT'S IF YOU'RE ON THE CORPORATE SIDE IT'S THE WEST MADE THE THIRD WORLD POOR USE THOSE PEOPLE FOR CHEAP LABOUR PRIVATISATION KILLED DEMOCRACY VOTE AS YOU LIKE THE CAPITALIST SURVIVE ECO SHOPPERS DON'T HELP SO MUCH WE NEED ACTION NOT FAT STOMACHS CRUSH THE UNIONS MAKE WORKERS DIVIDE PRIVATE PRISONS MAKE CASH FROM LIVES ECO FRIENDLY DOUBLE SPEAKING DON' LOOK NOW YOUR CONTINENTS SINKING YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO LIVE WITH LESS AND CARE SOME MORE OH MUMMUMMIE MUMMY DAD WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG ALL THOSE APPLIANCE YOU HAD I GOT TECHNO INTERNET STEALTH BOMBER AIDS CLONING OURSELVES AS THE EARTH DECAYS TONIGHT I'LL SLEEP AND I WILL SNORE FOR MY KIDS I LEAVE THE ECO WAR WE'RE THE GENERATION OF THE ECO WAR BIG DADDY MONKEY'S SITTING AT HIS DESK GOT A TIE AROUND HIS NECK BUT DOWN IN HIS PANTS AND IN HIS CROTCH HE'S GOT HAIR SWEAT A STINK IN HIS CROTCH 800 MILLION GO HUNGRY TODAY HE'S EATING CLEAN ORGANIC STEAK PUTTING IN A CALL TO THE RIOT SQUAD ON HIS DESK A LETTER OF COMPLAINT ARE YOU REALLY GONNA BELIEVE HIS REPLY YOU'RE NOT AS NAIVE AS THAT DON'T FORGET LITTLE PEOPLE CAUSE CHANGE IN THE HOME THE STREET OR WORK PLACE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WEAR WEIRD CLOTHES TAKE UP THE STRUGGLE CAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS A TIME LIKE NEVER BEFORE STILL THE IDEOLOGY OF RICH VERSUS POOR NEED THE CHANGE FROM THE BOTTOM UP LEADERS AND MONEY A LITTLE BIT SUSSED GOT SOME CANCER GROWING IN YOUR GUTS IT'S NOT ABOUT SAVING THE PLANET IT'S ABOUT FIGHTING BACK WE'RE THE GENERATION OF THE ECOWAR

FUCK YOU IMMIGRATION MAN CAN'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU GOT A HOME TO GO TO TONIGHT SOME OF US JUST KEEP ON MOVING NOT GOING TO TAKE OUR FREEDOM YOU CURSE AND STARE US OUT OF SIGHT BUT THERE'S GYPSY BOYS IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM YOU COULDN'T HANDLE WHAT THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH DON'T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH DON'T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THEY FEEL THEY HAVE POWER IN THEMSELVES YOU JUST GET POWER FROM YOUR JOB HOW DARE YOU TAKE THEM FROM THEIR FRIENDS AND FUN WE HAVE MORE FUN THAN YOU I CAN SEE A DIFFERENT WORLD STUFF YOU IMMIGRATION WOMAN CAN'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU GOT A HOME TO GO TO TONIGHT HE ESCAPED FROM AN IRAQI PRISON IN HIS MANNER IS DESPERATION HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE THERE'S DARK SKINNED BOYS IN THE INTERVIEW ROOMS CAN'T YOU SEE THEIR TORTURE WOUNDS DON'T SEEM TO ACT LIKE YOU'RE A HUMAN BEING I'LL TURN MY CELL INTO A PLAYPEN LAWYER CALLED I'LL SOON BE WALKING MAKE SOME ORIGAMI WITH YOUR CHARGE SHEET WE'RE GONNA GET PAST YOU, I THINK WE'LL GET PAST YOU I CAN SEE A DIFFERENT WORLD OK HERE'S THE SETUP, ALL OVER OUR DYING PLANET THERE'S PEOPLE ON THE RUN, CROATIAN, ALBANIAN, TIMORESE AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, IN THEIR COUNTRY IS POVERTY WAR AND ALL KINDS OF OPRESSION AND STILL THE BORDERS OF THE RICH NATIONS ARE TIGHTENING SO ONLY THE WEALTHY ARE WELCOME. NEW LAWSSHOW A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO DISCOURAGE ASYLUM SEEKERS. THESE PEOPLE ARE TURNED AWAY PUT IN DETENTION OR ALLOWED NO MEANS OF INCOME WHILE THEY WAIT THEIR ASSESMENT. OFTEN REFUGEES SEEK HELP FROM THE VERY COUNTRIES THAT CAUSE THEIR HARSH LIVES TO START WITH, CAUSE THE PRIVILEGED NATIONS STEAL THE RESOURCES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD ARM AND SUPPORT THOSE BRUTAL REGIMES. AND STILL THE RACISTS ARE SAYING OH THEY'LL STEAL OUR JOBS OR THEY'RE SO LAZY THEY WON'T WORK C'MON SHARING CULTURE IS THE BEST FUN, NEW CLOTHES NEW FOOD NEW MUSIC NEW IDEAS WEALTHY PEOPLE HAVE GOTTA LEARN TO SHARE A BIT MORE AND THERE'S PEOPLE CROWDED ONTO SMALL BOATS USING FALSE PASSPORTS HIDING IN CAR BOOTS WASTING TIME BEHIND THE WIRE JUST TRYING TO GET SOMEWHERE THAT'S SAFE AND STILL THE BORDERS ARE BEING SLAMMED SHUT IN THEOR FACES THAT'S WHY EVERY TIME I'M STANDING IN THAT PASSPORT QUEUE YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL BE SINGING ...

LEND ME YOUR EARS AND I'LL SING YOU A SONG BOUT THE THINGS THAT BEFALL YOU IF YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE WRONG I WAS AT HOME HAVING A TOSS MY FRIEND CAME HOME AND I HAD TO STOP BLOW THE MAN DOWN BLOW THE MAN DOWN GIVE US A HAND TO BLOW THE MAN DOWN I WANTED SOME SEX SO I ASKED HIM FOR SOME HE SAID NO THANKS AND THAT I WAS A BUM ON THE ROAD WE SEE THESE TRUCKS WITH LOCKED UP ANIMALS TO BE SLAUGHTERED BLOW THE MAN DOWN BLOW THE MAN DOWN GIVE US A HAND TO BLOW THE MAN DOWN THE PEOPLE I LIVE WITH GIVE ME THE SHITS THEY'RE MY BEST FRIENDS HEY AINT IT THE PITS I WAS OUT WALKING DOWN PARADISE STREET WHEN A FUCKING YOUNG COPPA I DID CHANCE TO MEET I SAT IN A VAN A MADMAN WAS DRIVING I SAID SLOW DOWN BUT HE WENT FASTER I TOLD HIM AGAIN BUT HE DIDN'T LISTEN I CALLED HIM A MUCHO HE CALLED ME A WITCH BLOW THE MAN DOWN BLOW THE MAN DOWN GIVE US A HAND TO BLOW THE MAN DOWN

FRIED CHEESE FRIED CHEESE SMAZENY SYR FRIED CHEESE FRIED CHEESE IN PRAHA CITY WE'RE EATING THIS KICKING IN THE HEADS OF NAZIS WENT AND BOUGHT CS GAS SQUATTING AND BUSKING KNUCKLE BUSTING STOPPED BEING VEGAN AND STARTED EATING FRIED CHEESE WOOD FIRES AT LADRONKA MANSION BOUGHT SECOND HAND BOOTIES TEMPERATURES DROPPING DOGS ARE KNOTTING EATING PICKLES CAVA FRIED CHEESE GOT THE VIOLIN WHISTLE INSTRUMENT ACCORDION STROLLING THROUGH TOWN OURSELVES SERENADING SQUATTING AND BUSKING KNUCKLE BUSTIN STOPPED BEING VEGAN AND STARTED EATING FRIED CHEESE TUESDAY NIGHTS AT 007 WE ARE OUT A SKANKING RUM AND PIVO WE ARE DRINKING LATER TO EAT FRIED CHEESE SATURDAY MORNINGS AT THREE PM SNEAK IN TO THE HOSTELS FOR OUR SHOWERING PLUMS AND PEARS OUT ON THE TREES APPLES AND ELDERBERRIES GONNA EAT SOME FRIED CHEES JE DE DI HYZALO DOPARADELLY KETSCACH BRAMBORAK IS WHERE ITS AT BETTER FOOD THAN THAN THE CAPPO CRAP EATING JIDELO AND CHILLING OUT IN THE PARIS OF THE 90'S GONNA EAT SOME FRIED CHEESE PROSTITUTES AND GARDEN GNOMES CLASSIC POP AND CHEAP PERFUME EAT WESTERN CULTURE LIKE A FISH TAKES BAIT U.S. STYLE MULTICORPS JUST GOT ANOTHER STATE STILL WE'RE KICKING IN THE HEADS OF NAZIS WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS FIGHT FOR THE NEXT SIX WEEKS SQUATTING AND BUSKING KNUCKLE BUSTING SMAZENY SYR

CAN SOMEBOSY PLEASE CAN SOMEBOSY TELL ME WHY CAN SOMEBOSY TELL ME WHY THAT WOMAN NVER LAUGHS OH NO SHE DOESN'T SMILE WELL SHE'S GOT FEW THINGS TO LAUGH ABOUT HER BEST FRIEND KILLED HERSELF OUT OF LONELINESS AND FEAR HER MUM IS AN ALCHOHOLIC JUST ANOTHER VICTIM OF SEXIST SOCIETY THEY TELL US FEMINISM HAS TRIUMPHED THAT WOMEN ARE EQUAL YEAH RAMBO WOMEN WITH GUNS ON TV GOT FEMALE BOSSES IN DESTRUCTIVE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES BUT THESE WOMEN ONLY MATCH THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS THESE POSITIONS OF POWER ARE NOT MATRIARCHY WE NEED A NEW WORLD NOT SIMPLY WOMEN IN MALE ROLES TOO MANY WOMEN DON'T SPEAK OUT AND DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THEIR SUPPRESSION SHE'S CRYING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN SILENCE HER GIRLFRIEND IS BEING BASHED BY HER BOYFRIEND STILL SHE LOVES HIM STILL SHE COVERS UP FOR HIM IN WARS WOMEN ARE RAPED, KIDNAPPED OR STAY AT HOME WITH THE CHILDREN TO STARVE WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF ALL CULTURES HAVE BEEN TORTURED LOCKED UP CONTROLLED BURNED CASTRATED CONDITIONED STONED TO DEATH BY THE MALE RULERS OF THEIR LIVES SHE'S TIRED BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY NOW SHE'S TAKING CARE OF HIM AS IF HE WERE A BABY CHORUS SHE LIVES IN AN UNPLEASANT LIVING SITUATION SHE FEELS DEPENDENT SHE'S AFRAID SHE FEELS UGLY HER GIRLFRIENDS TELL HER SHE'S FAT SHE HAS NO SEX, SHE FEELS GUILTY SHE'S GOT NO ONE TO TALK TO SHE CRIES A REAL WOMAN MUST PERFORM MIRACLES ON HERSELF DAILY TO KEEP THE VOICE OF CRITICSM THE VOICE OF MEN HER PIMP HER FATHER HER DOCTOR HER LOVER HER BROTHER OUT OF HER MIND WHO WILL PROTECT THEM WHO WILL SET THEM FREE WHO CARES ... SHE CRIES ALONE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN SILENCE

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

I WAS UP EARLY THIS MORNING SPRING SUN IN THE AIR FLOWERS ALL OUT UPON THE TREES PLANTS GOT POLLEN TO SHARE WENT OUT WALKING IN THAT PARK WHERE A FRIEND ONCE HELD MY ARM THINK OF YOU WHEN I AM THERE LAST SAW YOU WE WERE DANCING HEY MEN AND WOMEN MAKE BABIES AND MEN AND MEN MAKE LOVE WOMEN AND WOMEN WILL GO TOGETHER THIS IS WHAT SPRING DOES DON'T WANT TO THINK OF THE BAD STUFF TODAY I WILL FORGET THE FEAR GOT SOME FOOD GOT SOME SUN GOT THE GUITAR RIGHT HERE THERE'S A HOLIDAY IN THIS LAND WE GOT THE WORK DAY OFF ON THIS DAY 50 YEARS AGO ADOLF HITLER GOT THE CHOP HOORAY! YOU AND ME WE MET AT WORK YOUR EYES ARE COLD AND DARK YOU ONLY SEEM TO LIKE ME A BIT BUT I'LL KEEP ON TRYING MY LUCK MAYBE YOU'LL GO TO THE MOVIES IF YOU DON'T I DON'T CARE I'VE GOT OTHER FRIENDS AS WELL BUT I'D RATHER IT WAS YOU THAT WAS THERE NOT THAT OFTEN I FEEL THIS GOOD THE WORLD IS PRETTY TOUGH SOMETIMES I WANT TO FORGET THE FIGHT SOME DAYS YOU KNOW I'VE HAD ENOUGH

PASS BY YOU ON MY BIKE YOU CROUCH ON KERR STREET WANTED TO APOLOGISE, REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TOGETHER, I'SE TOO YOUNG NOW FROM YOU IT'S HATE LIFE HURTS A LONG TIME YOU'RE AT THE DOOR GREEN LIGHT 6AM EARLY MORNING RAIN YOU'RE NOT WITH HIM BEEN OUT SLEEPING IN THE DOORWAYS AGAIN I LET YOU IN A CUP OF TEA WHEN I LAST SAW YOU, YOU'D STILL HAVE A CHAT WITH ME LIFE HURTS A LONG TIME FELL IN LOVE AT THE PROTEST CAMP PALLET FIRES, STINGING SMOKE AND RAIN DRANK CIDER SLEPT IN THE HAY DREAMY SUMMER COUNTRY DAYS HITCHED AWAY IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS NEVER SAW YOU AGAIN I'M RUNNING CRYING IN THE NIGHT YOU CAME TO ME MY ONLY FRIEND I PUSHED YOU AWAY FEELING PROUD FELT BRAVE COULD OF BEEN WITH YOU THE REST OF MY DAYS AND YOU SPIT IT DOWN AND KEEP ON MOVING BOOTS GO DOWN YOU'RE ALMOST HOME TO A STRANGERS DOOR A MATTRESS ON THE FLOOR MEMORIES OF THREE YEARS BEFORE LAST SAW YOU IN A HOSPITAL BED TUBES UP YOU POOR OLD DICK YOU LOOKED OK IT'S 4AM WE'RE OUT SIFTING THROUGH THE GARBAGE AGAIN SOME FACES I RECOGNISE BUT NOW YOU KNOW THE DEAR OLD BAR IS CLOSED AND I FEEL LIKE A RUSTY OLD VAN HOLES ROUND THE WINDOW ENGINES GONE COLD TYRES ARE FLAT OIL NEEDS CHANGING AW YOU KNOW THERE'S DUST BETWEEN MY TOES LIFE HURTS A LONG TIME