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And In Vengeance We Strike

by Lead The Way

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1.
If It's Fixed (free) 03:15
I refuse to read between the lines anymore Your fucking bullshit's plain to see And I'm still amazed At just how many sit, stare, believe and get wilfully fucked in the arse No need to stand up, no need to face up   Just keep my head down, behave myself And I'll let convention do my thinking for me Do we lead, do we follow? Do we want truth, or are we more comfortable with lies?   I will not concede myself to be a whore, and i will never be your pawn Just watch these rats as they run for their lives when they're told they must There's nothing chasing What are you running from
2.
Here we go again I'm sure they're crying in their brandy glasses About the state of democracy I'm pissing in the wind I think i'm living in a fascist state Where the corrupt and the racist is king   It's a two party system Where the only words of wisdom are; 'Go on son - throw away your vote' Can't vote for who I want It only aids the worst of two evils They've got us by the throat   Meet the new boss - same as the old boss He's gonna turn this country around He's gonna make your life so easy Gonna make you feel so safe But when he gets his foot in the door; He's gonna make you wish you'd never been born   I still have faith That the people of this country still have An ounce of reason and fight left in them To stem the flow of paranoia and hate That they can unify to save true democracy
3.
Just one second of stand off - Hands up, on the floor Poisoned minds and weary hearts are giving ground again All these centuries down the line The sword's still mightier than the pen So he who wields the sword, thus controls the world And puts the fear of God into our souls   Is this who we are? Can we, will we amount to anything more than one echo, Through the silence that penetrates our souls?   When will we reach that wall? That point where we decide enough is enough We won't take anymore Breaches of trust - hope turned to dust This state of perpetual angst and hate   It's time to open your eyes Don't listen to their bullshit lies You're not as free as they tell you Be something more Stand up and say no
4.
Headlines 02:42
The bulletins arrive from the front Every hour on the hour The latest crusade is a noble one it seems I don't remember how it started I don't remember why It's just a game we play With national pride at stake Us versus them   Listen, be good, lay down, shut up; This is the news at ten and these are the headlines This bedtime story will lull you to sleep Til you wake up with nightmares Indoctrinated into this culture of fear But what's keeping you here?   Soothed into a state of ignorant bliss By the non-stop drone of corporate lull-a-bys We eat, we drink, we hear, we see Under the pretense of being free We're held for ransom This system won't just fade away It won't just relinquish control one day Unless we fight for change
5.
Forgotten in your laps of luxury Remembered in your struggle Youth taken away, Dissolved by the labour that kicks the will to live clean out of me With these foundations we embark on a new era of hate, lies and struggle   A promise from the ivory gates will be honoured in your nightmares The hands that built he nation betrayed by the children they toiled to save   Are we so afraid to be part of a minority? The scratch in the record? Even when it plays the soundtrack to our demise We all have a voice   For our culture, right to live without fear, we aim to save Democracy will have you choose the rock or the hard place But we can disarm, down the shackles and turn our backs Refuse to shake their blood stained hands
6.
Born, dragged kicking and screaming Into a world in a downward spiral Money makes the world go around But money will bring it choking, grinding to a halt As another man-made, imminent disaster lies dashed upon the rocks Bleeding diseased blood, suffocating fragile life Once again I ask myself why   In our modern government Everyone has corporate ties Are you so naive that you still believe They've always got your best interests at heart?   Kyoto - a chance to redeem at the world's feet Refused - rendered pointless and obsolete And when another poison fog descends Too late to ask the question; What can we do to make this world a better place?
7.
You say this time is far too easy Leftover handouts to keep the peace And now it's too late for any apologies But now our hands are burned, slowly worked to the bone Sifting through the ashes of the bridges you have burned   And now we recognise the face of our own enemy We've seen through the rhetoric and lies But somehow blinded by their dazzling display of contempt We simply get on with our lives   This time, our time, Born to bear their burden With years gone by The shadow's cast over our lives   Forgive, forget, for giving us scars that can never heal The blood, the sweat, the tears we shed for you are all too real   I can see through the idiotic delusion you fell for Expanding wealth, they're crushing the insignificant Well fuck you, take back your one visioned view I can see through it This is our time and we'll embrace
8.
Holy Shit 03:56
He's a better man than me, he's seen the light Now he's another reason He's another reason why I can't sleep at night I'm worried for the safety of mankind As he, like so many other bastards before him Will stand in the way of progress In the name of tradition Religion   Fuck your God He's nothing but a false idol to keep us in line Waste your life Waiting for something worth dying for at the end of your time Whatever name you give Him, whatever guise He takes He's still the same despotic leader Who keeps his followers on their knees   Just one of the faithful, one of the flock Compliant to the point of ignorance, stupidity Arrogant the path is righteous, the way, the light You'll swallow biblical proportions of holy shit   Ancient folklore read to our children and our parents before Serves as a warning, stick to the path There's something waiting in the woods   Have we learned nothing from the years of bloodshed? Times of turmoil, days of rage Stop believing fairy-tales Act your age
9.
Broken 03:02
This situation, this time was only ever made to be broken Just like the rules that push me further from the truth That it's just fools gold for the poor man Quit chasing dreams that were never meant to be yours   We can be smashed We can be broken Held down by the fears we hold in our hearts The sweat and the tears extinguish the fears And rise back up   With closed eyes it's hard to stay focused We watch the days roll by Without addressing mistakes, ill-fated on our own hands   It's time for the questions that for so long we thought we'd answered So much for this special place Wake up to one collective gaze It's time
10.
Listen to the sound of every broken heart beat  Does it make you proud to know you heard it in defeat? We've gone against our instinct Which is to create human life And save the future of humanity Diversity is now headed for the grave Long before it's time    With eyes clouded with anger They march the moral plain To wrench the strings of 'patriot' hearts Convince you your stand is just   Near the harbours, and in two cities Will be two scourges, the likes of which have never been seen Famine, plague within People cast out by the sword will cry for help to the great god immortal   There's your superpower There's your pillar of world peace There are a thousand reasons why Their words of good intention, you should never believe
11.
Safe in your own little world Insular, you hear nothing from the outside I would yell at the top of my voice until i'm blue in the face But I know you'll never listen to me I'm just a fucking pleb with nothing sensible to say  So lets sit back, relax, and watch another fat cat die of obesity   They don't give a fuck what you think of them They never will As long as their pockets are lined   Before the making of the man Was a clear-cut, simple plan To protect the people, do what's right by them But now the plan's been tried The ideal has quietly died And been passed to power-hungry, hateful men   What's the point in protest if millions can take to the streets to be ignored? Why do we bother to resist? To highlight how big a joke this democracy is? Hiding behind their flags they conceal their yellow skin And the bullying won't stop until the world turns good ole red, white and blue.
12.
A new day dawns on a shattered landscape; the dust settles and the smoke begins to clear And through the ashes walks a suited figure, in his hand he holds the rights for rebuilding It's his modern-day banner of war   The bravest of the brave cannot compare to the march of progress Who'll be left standing when they're done demanding their cut of the spoils of war The iron fist won't loosen its grip until the imperial dream is realised   'We came, we saw, we conquered' - the mantra of the righteous Over the stench of the war that came here hangs the smell of greed and the sound of bulldozers And with all hope now so far from reach, are we so proud of what's achieved? It seems that our means never justify the end   Slack-jawed, dumb-struck, millions fearing they're denied the truth With this there's no choice, shift their focus and in vengeance we strike.

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Record Label: Not Shy Of The DIY Records

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released January 24, 2011

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Recorded at Pro Two Studios, Castleford

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