WORDS AND MUSIC BY JAMES KENNEDY
1) AUTOPSY
Here we go again and we're still choosing filthy rich liars
Over food banks, sweatshops and tower block fires
Zero hour contracts, billionaires pay no tax
The homeless, immigrants and poor get attacked
'cos the one percent need divide and rule
Not unions, homes, hospitals and schools
The media spread fear like a disease
While the police state creeps like the rising seas
What's it gonna take?
Wake up, wake up
We get what we deserve
Sometimes I think that there's no use
Sometimes I think that we just crave abuse
When we're screwed more by banks than terrorism
But still the robots dance to the algorhythms
But don't we want more from this life
Than just to work, shop, drink and die?
Sometimes I think we deserve what we get
'cos do we ever learn? No, we forget
Wake up, wake up
We get what we deserve
Wake up, wake up
We get what we deserve
Wake up, wake up
We get what we deserve
Wake up, wake up
We get what we deserve
Wake up from the fear, wake up from the lies
The nightmare will be over the second you open your eyes
2) GHOSTS
By the grace of hungry roads and seas
There's a second chance I live to see
My home, my family, all my futures and my history
Buried in dust and bullet shells
And I'm leaving it all behind
I'm leaving it all behind
I'm leaving it all behind
And I pray that I can find
A refuge
Now I'm a prisoner on foreign streets
Hands tied to a system I can't leave
Paraded as the enemy, to be hated by society
So far away, so much the same
I thought I was leaving it all behind
Leaving it all behind
If you only knew my story
If you only knew my name
I didn't come with needs before me
I came to start again
I'm not a refugee
I'm you, if you were me
I'm leaving it all behind
I'm leaving it all behind
I'm leaving it all behind
3) OUTRAGERS
Here come the thought police again
Vigilantes of the screen
To keep you safe from fact or doubt
So only pain and rage remain
So come on and join the noise
It's what they're talking 'bout
It's what they're talking about
It's what they're talking 'bout
They're all talking about
It's where the parasites feed
Stoke their fires and build their walls
At the carnival where reason burned
We couldn't smell the gas at all
We were busy joining the noise
It's what they're talking 'bout
It's what they're talking about
It's what they're talking 'bout
They're all talking about
Here come the thought police again
It's what they're talking 'bout
It's what they're talking about
Vigilantes of the screen
It's what they're talking 'bout
They're all talking about
To keep you safe from fact or doubt
It's what they're talking 'bout
It's what they're talking about
So only pain and rage remain
It's what they're talking 'bout
They're all talking about
4) SOLACE IN SICKNESS
Ecstasy, it ain't my destiny
To chase you up that hill, don't tell me I am ill
Society, don't lie to me
That plastic yellow smile is the face of our denial
We don't need to try
We don't need to hide
I wanna feel down, I want the fear
I wanna be sorry and I want the tears
I wanna know real love, not the ideal
And I'll risk the losses, just let me feel
Something real
Something real
Did I fail the test, to want the best
From the market of nirvana's like all the rest?
Lesson. It's our obsession
With happiness that's feeding our depression
When there's so much more
We got to live for
I wanna feel rage, I want the dirt
And I want the truth even if it hurts
I wanna feel the pain that makes me strong
And I wanna fight for what's right even if I'm wrong
I don't want your fix
'cos your bliss don't exist
I wanna feel high, I wanna feel low
I want the struggle, I wanna lose control
I wanna feel it in my heart, feel it in my bones
It's electric plugged in to my soul
Something real
Something real
5) STRUGGLES
I can lose it like the flick of a switch
These days, these streets, this life
It's wearing me down
I’d surrender if I could
No matter how hard I try
It's never enough
Feels like I'm waiting for something that never comes
I’m stuck in a battle that's never won
I'm killing myself just to exist
'cos I played by the rules but the game was fixed
When will my victory come
I've been waiting for so long
Where will my rescue come from
I'm screaming inside
Can you save me, can you save me from myself
Can you save me from everyone else
I can feel it taking its toll
On my will, my hope, my love
My body and soul
But I hide it, so you never knew
How I struggle behind my disguises
Just like you
When will my victory come
I've been waiting for so long
Where will my rescue come from
I'm screaming inside
Can you save me, can you save me from myself
Can you save me
When there’s no way out
There’s no way through
And the fear paralyses
We carry on
We've all got our reasons
Feels like I’m waiting for something that never comes
I'm stuck in a battle that's never won
I'm killing myself just to exist
’cos I played by the rules but the game was fixed
When will my victory come
I've been waiting for so long
Where will my rescue come from
I'm screaming inside
Can you save me, can you save me from myself
Can you save me