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Big Society
02:21
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Sold your schools to the cheapest bidder
Sold your health to the old GP
Sold your soul to the work for nothing dole
And a bloke who went to school with me
He's an old Etonian, what's mine's me own
And he's boiling up a pot for the tea party
Slightly right of Melanie Phillips
UKIP and the BNP
Welcome to the big, big society
There's none for you and a ton for me
Welcome to the big, big society
We've come to set your money free
We gave away the currency
To HBOS and the TSB.
Bought myself a private photographer
Bought a bounty hunter for the benefit cheats
Made a plan to keep the poor out of the cities
And keep them out the universities
It's a new austerity for our prosperity
Did it over breakfast with the Bullingdon boys
We've all been mates since the 1980's
Don't give a fuck what greed destroys
Welcome to the big, big society
There's none for you and a ton for me
Welcome to the big, big society
We've come to set your labour free
It sounds a lot like slavery
There's none for you and nine for me
Welcome to the big, big society
There's none for you and a ton for me
Welcome to the big, big society
We've come to set your labour free
It sounds a lot like slavery
There's none for you and nine for me
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2. |
Tick Tick
01:47
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Do you wanna be the first born private nurse
Fill the boots in the high st. man
Do you wanna be a fee paying holiday nanny
For a national citizen
Do you wanna go to school til your 25
Learn to spell baccalaureate
Do you wanna tell the fella with his face in another face
What you're gonna do about that
Do you wanna spend your time in the firing line
For a shot at the title fight
While the mother of the free, fake democracy
Eats you up from the inside
Do you wanna tell your mucky little dustbin lids
They'll be paying til their dying day
Cos you fell for the lies of the old school ties
And you watched them give the farm away
Tick tick tick tick
Tick tick tick tick
Defrauded by fraud by abuse of position
Fetch the inquisition please
While the pay per view physician on his own little mission
Brings a nation to it's knees
Do you wanna be a mate of the two tier state
Government by bring and buy
Or do you want immunity from the community
Someone tried to organise
Tick tick tick tick
Tick tick tick tick
Tick tick tick tick
Tick tick tick tick
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3. |
Dumb Bums
02:35
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I've had enough of this city life
London Bridge is falling down
I'm moving to the country got a dog and a wife
London Bridge is falling down
London's burning someone call the fire brigade
London's burning no one's gonna come to your aid
Get out from the middle when the sparks ignite
London Bridge is falling down
We'll put down our heads at the end of the night
London Bridge is falling down
London's burning someone call the fire brigade
London's burning no one's gonna come to your aid
Colour coded trash fading from our sight
London Bridge is falling down
Will I have to stay and die or leave to fight
London Bridge is falling down
In a fake town where the traffic's red
And the lights are always brighter
On the pavement where their life has bled
They drop their silver paper
It's not that I'm getting old but the view from the top doesn't feel as cold
And the folks at the top don't rock and the ones at the side don't fit the mould
London's burning pour on water
No more vermin
Rebuild the mortar
London's burning
Fetch the engine
London's failing
Patch up the people (rpt)
London's burning someone call the fire brigade
London's burning no one's gonna come to your aid (x3)
London's burning fetch the engine
London's failing
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4. |
BNP Bingo
03:31
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Dirty Gertie years ago
You could have it any colour you like
As long as it was black that's what Henry said
And we all had a reason to get out of bed
But there was Kelly's eye production line
That wasn't enough to move with the times
So the foreman said come and get your stuff
Now we work when we can but there's never enough
And the buzz and the bustle that used to hang around
All upped and went when the money left town
So it's eyes down for a council house
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Minor thug dealers selling hate by the ounce
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Discontent parasites ready to pounce
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Nothing for a middle line
But the right side up suits them just fine
You get your's and I'll get mine
Let's go
I can count to one in Cameron's den
Live in a nation run by white men
Every time something goes just a little bit wrong
Stupid starts singing the same old song
They took our house and took our jobs
They eat weird meat and don't believe in god
Got a nuclear threat from outer space
If they could do that why aren't they running the place
But the half light, half truth, half wit boys
Give you heat not light and hopeless noise
So it's eyes down for a council house
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Minor thug dealers selling hate by the ounce
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Discontent parasites ready to pounce
At the BNP
BNP bingo
Nothing for a middle line
But the right side up suits them just fine
You get your's and I'll get mine
Let's go
B.I.N.G.O. (rpt until hell freezes over)
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5. |
Stash
02:40
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Get off my back
And keep your paws off my stash
Enjoy spending my cash
And the money won't last
Baby baby baby
Get your paws off my stash
You should not have quit that psychology class
Your t shirt's ripped and your friends have all left
And your bedrooms full of old broken glass
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
You've got no class
So you've got my stash
It's as clear as glass
So go and tell the cops
Better start running real fast
Baby baby baby
Get your hands off my stash
You should not have quit that psychology class
Your t shirt's ripped and your friends have all left
And your bedrooms full of old broken glass
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
You've got no class
Baby baby baby
Yeah you drank my blood
And now you gotta get out of the hood
You smoked my stash spent my cash
And now you quit that pyschology class
Your bedroom's full of old broken glass
Your t shirt's ripped and your friends have no class
You've gotta gotta gotta give me back my stash
Yeah baby
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
You've just no class
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6. |
Horrible
03:12
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It's horrible
It's mean
A genetic disorder
Yeah a chronic disease
We're not content, no
We're not serene
We're disgusting unshaven unclean
Well and truly mean
My brain is mashing
My head is crashing
My skin is itching
My body's twitching
My word is breaking
I'm always faking
My bones are aching
My colour's fading
Yeah we're horrible
We're the fist of defiance
The product of thieves
Conditioned and radical
We don't give advice
You know we're anything but nice
We're the dark in the night
We're the a.m the p.m.
The noise of the bin men
My brain is mashing
My head is crashing
My skin is itching
My body's twitching
My word is breaking
I'm always faking
My bones are aching
My colour's fading
We're a failure by default
We don't rate or hate fate
We need some colour in this council estate
It's horrible
It's horrible
Yeah we're negative and mean
We're the riot in your brain
We're horrible and strangely insane
My brain is mashing
My head is crashing
My skin is itching
My body's twitching
My word is breaking
I'm always faking
My bones are aching
My colour's fading
My body's bleeding
The rats are feeding
We're always cheating
I can't stop screaming
Nothing's easy
I can't do this
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7. |
You Could Be The One
03:19
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You could be the one I've waited for
You could be the reason for this war
Violently contemplating things I've never done
Fight it out and you could be the one
You could be the one who holds the gun
Points it at my head and starts to run
Threatening the possible which beggars my belief
Obvious extraordinary thief
You stole my mind
I think you'll find
You stole my soul
And my control
You made me sure
Of one thing more
And now I really know I'm captivated
Really know I'm captivated
You could be the one I've waited for
You could be the reason for this war
Fight it out and you could be the one who holds the gun
Fight it out and you could be the one
You stole my mind
I think you'll find
You stole my soul
And my control
You made me sure
Of one thing more
And now I really know I'm captivated
Really know I'm captivated (etc)
You could be the
You could be the
You could be the one (rpt)
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8. |
Coming Out
02:56
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The boys come out at night
Replete with armaments
With slip on souls and rolled up sleeves
A rigid regiment
Convention for conversation
A soulless script of pointless to relate
The boys are back in town
So pull their trousers down
And bare their arse to destiny and fate
The boys come out at night
Because that's what they do
Nine pints and some Jaegerbombs
A bottle of fuck you
A concentration of frustration
They kick your head with pointy slip on shoes
The boys are back in town
They're pissed up in the crown
With nothing left and nothing more to lose
They're coming round again
No country for young men
A murder of the beaten and the bruised
The boys come out at night
They had ten thousand men
They marched them up to Shooters Hill
And locked them in a pen
Gave them drugs and occupations
Filled them up and emptied out their heads
The boys are back in town
The old familiar sound
Of drunken zombies and the living dead
The boys are back in town (x4)
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9. |
Apostate
03:03
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We built a city of gold
And no one ever got old
And no one ever stood in line
And then the tables got turned
And we forgot what we'd learned
You'll find it happens all the time
Sometimes I could seem to be bold
Sit down and cry for the things that we'vesold
Sometimes time surprises too fast
And gives the lie
To the things that won't last
We sent our children to war
We didn't tell them what for
You'll find it happens all the time
And if you kill to be free
Will that make you like me
Are we partners in crime?
Sometimes I could seem to be cold
I don't believe in the things I've been told
I can't rely on the things I can see
There's just you and me
So how should I be?
I'm gonna be apostate (rpt ad infinitum)
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10. |
Outcome / Cheat
04:54
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Outcome
I'm the blind ambition of the thoughtless soul
I'm the outcome baby
I'm the roundest peg in the roundest hole
Got no room for maybe
I'm the uniform in the college dorm
I'm the regulated
And he did what he should cos he could when he should
I'm the confirmation affirmation
There's no space in my life
It is black or it is white
In the dark doubting night
It's still black or it is white
I'm the last drinks bell you believe in hell
Cos I put it there
I'm the outcome baby got no room for maybe you can stop and stare
I'm the rationale for the national
Got a guarded border
I'm the new born dawn
I'm the purest born
I'm the order order order
There's no space in my life
It is black or it is white
I'm gonna start a fight
Is it wrong or is it right
I don't want nobody telling me what to do
I don't want nobody telling me it was you
I don't want nobody telling me what to think
And I don't want nobody telling me what to drink
There's no space in my life
It is black or it is white
I'm gonna start a fight
Is it wrong or is it right
I don't want nobody telling me what to do
I don't want nobody telling me it was you
I don't want nobody telling me what to think
And I don't want nobody telling me what to drink
Cheat
I get violent when i'm fucked up
I get silent when i'm drugged up
Want excitement, don't get none, i go wild
i don't know what can be done about it
if you play the game you get nothing out of it
Find out for yourself try to be a goody goody
You better cheat cheat
No reason to play fair
Cheat cheat or don't get anywhere
Cheat cheat if you can't win
Nobody knows what they are doing
It's beyond your control, an' friday night's a ruin
If you wanna survive you better learn how to lie
Don't use the rules
They're not for you, they're for the fools
And you're a fool if you don't know that
So use the rule you stupid fool
You better cheat cheat
No reason to play fair
Cheat cheat or don't get anywhere
Cheat cheat if you can't win
Cheat.
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The Benefit Cheats Kingston Upon Thames, UK
We're the Cheats, The Benefit Cheats.
Just punk rockers who didn't stop, no scratch that, won't stop, it's an act of
will.
Been around some blocks but this our first recording together. Recorded in no time straight into a big old desk it's raw, like we're playing next door.
Enjoy it, if you want. TBC x
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