1. |
The U.S. is Bull
01:55
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The united states is full of bullshit
They make plans then steal land
To modernize the world they say
Sure, blame them then bomb them
Straight to hell so no one can tell
There’s another way to do this
It’s just human nature i always hear
“The reason things are fucked
Is because humans suck”
Survival of the fittest the excuse
Survival of the murderers the truth
The united states is full of bullshit
The united states is full of shit
The united states is full of bullshit
When are we gonna call them on it?
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2. |
Grandparents
04:00
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You thought your children would live like kings and queens
And their children live like kids of kings
Even better, and we did for awhile
You filled their lives with futuristic things
That then devolved into necessities
And the heirs of progress can’t feed themselves
Now that we’re trapped inside your dream
How do we get back to a world where we’re not sleeping
Please say that you’re coming to wake me
With lead in our limbs and sleep in our eyes
We strive and fail to recognize
The real World from what’s inherited lies
But oh rescue us back to the world of your youth
Before the thread was lost connecting us
To sanity reality
All that’s uncertain now is which disaster will befall us first
Our whole lives lived in the time after the last stone’s been cast
We haven’t understood our place on Earth
Enclosed inside an artificial world
So we ignore all signs that life is dying all around us
We have to tell the truth to kids alright
If they want to live they’ll have to fight
And they’ll never have the lives their grandparents dreamed of
Now that they’re trapped inside our dream
There’s no way to get back to a world where life is thriving
They’d beg us if they knew what we’re hiding
With lies in their heads and love in their eyes
They embrace the World mesmerized
By the beauty that they don’t know is dying
But oh rescue us back to the world of your youth
Before the thread was lost connecting us
To sanity reality
All that’s uncertain now is which disaster will befall us first
Our whole lives lived in the time after the last stone’s been cast
(adapted from poem by Queen Elizabeth I
as performed by Medieval Baebes)
Our care is like our shadow laid bare beneath the sun
It follows us at all times and flies when we pursue it
We love and yet are forced to hate
Can’t see we let death overtake
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3. |
Time is a Hunter
05:27
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Time is the hunter and time is the cage we’ve locked ourselves in
That we don’t recognize and so we think of ourselves free
It doesn’t matter to the one who’s circumscribed
The borders of the possible, that we can’t see
All the good intentions in the World won’t do a damn thing
Cause we’re still breathing air released in 1965
We haven’t even yet felt the consequence
Of the mistakes we thought we’d left behind
If we had forever, we could make it
If we had forever, we could get there
But time is the hunter and time is the cage
Time is the hunter and time is the cage
For everyone who’s waiting for the sign that won’t ever come
To tell them now it’s right to fight against the state at last
You’ll never get permission to abstain
From the rites of passage into denial
It’s not like Civil Rights, the Labor, or the Women’s Movement
Earth won’t consider that real change always takes time
Ours ran out already long ago
We don’t fight cause we’ll win but to affirm life
In the face of evil that thinks it can cheat the living out of our birthright
If we had forever, we could make it
If we had forever, we could get there
But time is the hunter and time is the cage
Time is the hunter and time is the cage
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4. |
Drought and Delusion
04:01
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Shriveled up and cracking off
Not enough energy to keep yourself together
It’s happening to your neighbors too
There’s less and less of the living left
Every day
Young ones don’t make up for the ancients
They don’t have enough to give and no one to give to them
We’re singing “Nothing’s gonna change my world”
Pretending it’s old times
But things are gonna change so fast
You wouldn’t believe it – never
Shriveled up and closed off
Our hearts are turned away from
The ones who need our help most
Obsessed with moral purity
While we leave the assaulted to
Fend for themselves
Nice words don’t make up for inaction
We need real warriors and to hell with cowards
They’re singing “Nothing’s gonna change our world”
Pretending it’s old times
If someone you love is under threat
You do anything to save them
Burned up burned up there’s nothing to chew
And nowhere to go when you wanna hear nothing
Dried up dried up there’s nothing to drink
And nowhere to go when you wanna sleep in the real dark
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5. |
Education
04:46
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The last people who remember the last people who were free, will soon die. Then there will be no one on this Earth who has been or who has even talked to someone who has been free.
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6. |
Civilians
05:07
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We’ll do anything to keep the fear away
Why aren’t we screaming about our sealed fate
Use up the oil, the air, water and soil
Then we go, we’ll go we’ll go we’ll go
We’ll go wild
I’ve gotta wonder
What are we gonna do
When the last drop is used
The dominant culture of production
Has filled up our mouths with all its common sense
Kill the peoples who won’t get down on their knees
Destroy, destroy, hide, disremember their communities
We’ll never feel
What it’s like to be free
Culture of slavery
Humanity’s crushed by efficiency
We can’t conceive life beyond the system’s needs
Days of boredom spent aside
Ourselves so we forget we’re alive
I’ve gotta wonder
We don’t have much time
With all life on the line
What’s happening here we can’t walk away
Deluding ourselves to what we all face
We’re alive now but we won’t always be
What do you live for
When you can’t escape what’s coming?
Will we come together
Confront those who want us to hide
And fill the emptiness inside
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7. |
Bless You
04:29
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The Earth is sucked dry and skinned
We’ve torn its insides out
No future now
They make and break all the rules
Tell stories then ignore
A new life just walked through the door
(it’s a must that we trust in ourselves
to choose well)
Egos will not be fossilized
They don’t believe it yet
Tortured by regret
But they don’t stop
Even what they can
Living in the moments
Before the end
Ground feels still to us
Flying toward the sun
This ecological collapse
In slow motion
Catharsis of our pain and love
Brought on by make believe
While sacred order’s breached
We’re all pacifists in name
That’s why we can’t stop
The violence that gets us
What we got
(it’s a must that we trust in ourselves
to treat each other well)
Powerful in between selves
Uncomfortable with life
Don’t question our right
But we don’t stop
Even what we can
Living in the moments
Before the end
Do we even want
To save life on Earth
Or are we resigned to
The culture’s death urge
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8. |
Intelligent Designer
03:30
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I’m sorry i’m pretty if i wasn’t would you leave me alone?
Would you ignore me instead of telling what I could change to be perfect?
Would you give me back my brain, my time, my confidence?
If the World wasn’t so beautiful would you leave her alone?
Let her grow wild in places you didn’t want her and watch her ignore
Your boundaries with awe, not fear
Am i your girlfriend your baby? How would you change my cunt?
My thighs, my hair, my feet, my ass, to suit your desire?
How would you eviscerate mountains? Shave forests off the Earth?
Force rivers to flow right where you want them?
Cleanse the World of the animals and people who get in your way?
End these lives to make games for you to play.
No, it’s ok – i like you.
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9. |
Mortem Ex Machina
04:38
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I heard life surrendered at last
And i just looked down
When i saw it was true
We were too busy
To notice the killing spree
While earth fought for her life
We were looking something up online
The time has come and gone
When we can have the things we want
Without killing ourselves and everything else
But if we had known
What was happening now
Or what was coming soon
Would we still believe
That we couldn’t live without
The modern things
Would we still be scared to
Give up the machines to
Save our own lives
(from English folk song “Thorneymoor Woods”)
In Nottingham assizes are gone and past
Us three young lads go free at last
The bucks and the does will never roam free
A poachers life is the life for me
A poacher i will always be.
Fol de rol, tora lie day
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10. |
Shooting Star
04:31
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Saw a shooting star fall in my backyard
Burned a wall of light around the house
All the sky bowed over and leaned in closer
To what went wrong
They had a vision but went back to their places to play
The music that ignites it all
Turned under bedsheets
Dreaded the coming day
Looked out the window and was blinded by a white light
I looked down and saw there was no first story
Only fire below
If i can’t go to work i’ll stay in bed and maybe myself
Become a star
Smoke spreading further obscured the hills to the East
Heard there are places where they haven’t seen the sun for days
But you wouldn’t believe it, said it all looked clear
And you came up with any reason to deny
There’d ever been a sun anyway
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Una and Her Lamb California
UHL is an acknowledgment of the ecological disaster we are facing. It is our moral obligation to build a culture of resistance to the system causing the destruction. Such a culture needs people to talk and sing and make art about the fact that a few humans are taking the lives of everyone else on Earth. Here is one contribution. What is your reaction to this crisis? Tell the world how you feel! ... more
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