Love the Troika's Bailout Like you Love your Mum!!

How I learned to love the bomb

Well there's no more sleepless nights for me
Now it's easier from now on
'Cos I've realised exactly where I've been going wrong
Well I've been lying awake at night
Worrying about the Russians
But the Russians are my friends
'Cos we've got a love that will never end

'Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb

Well once we had a plan to go to Greenham Common
And steal a Polaris missile
And we'd put it on the back of a lorry
Now I keep it in my bedroom
And it's yellow black and grey
And I'll polish it every day
And I don't care what the neighbours say

'Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb
Don't you be so stupid
No no no

You should like the bomb like you love your mum

And if you want to live in a peaceful world
There's only one thing to do
You've gotta choose Cruise

'Cos now I've learned to love the bomb
Now I've learned to love the bomb
Don't you be so stupid
No no no

What the hell do you take me for?
If you going to make bombs you're longing for war

Don't you be so stupid
Now I've learned to love the bomb

The days I've spent on CND campaigns
Just walking, just walking in the pouring rain
Time and time again

How I learned to love the bomb

Television Personalities

Sin futuro

Search and Destroy

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

Honey gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby detonate for me

Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology

Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby penerate my mind

And I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy said hey forgotten boy

The Stooges

I Hate the Capitalist System

I hate the capitalist system
and I´ll tell you the reason why
it has caused me so much suffering
and my dearest friends to die
well I know you all are wondering
what it has done to me

well I am going to tell you
that my husband has tb
brought on by hardworking lowwages
and never enough to eat
from going cold and hungry
with no shoes upon his feet

my husband was a coalminer 
who worked hard and risked his life
just tryin to support three children
himself, his mother and wife

well I had a blueyedbaby
was a darling of my heart
but from my little darling the mother had to part

why the rich and mighty capitalists
goes to rest in jewels and silk
my darling blueeyed baby has died for the wondermill
well they call this the land of plenty
and for them I guess its true
for the rich and mighty capitalists
not for workers like me and you

well now what can we do about it
to these men of power and might
well I'll tell you mister capitalist
we are going to fight, fight, fight! 

Barbara Dane 


Working Class Woman 

¡Que no, que no!

Free Will

I don't belive in free will (x2)

I just do what I feel

I don't belive in free will

I just do what I feel

That is the deal

I don't belive in free will

I don't belive in free speach (x2)

I can't stand what they teach

I don't belive in free speach

 I can't tell what they teach

I can't tell what it's reach

I don't belive in free speach

I don't belive in free love (x2)

All those kisses and hugs

I don't belive in free love

All those kisses and hugs

xxx

I don't belive in free love

Well I just can't belive it when, yeah, they say that is free

Because in my experience everything is quite expensively!

I don't belive in free press (x2)

Yeah, I think it's a mess

I don't belive in free press

Yeah I think it's a mess and it causes me distress

I don't belive in free press

Well I just can't belive it when, yeah, they say that is free

Because in my experience everything is quite expensively!

I don't belive in freedom (x7)

Chain and The Gang

Larga vida a las piedrecicas

Only the Stones Remain

Men were executed, women bled
Beads and fish changed hands and
Children stayed up late
Uh huh

Colored drums they stretched the night
There's a taxidermist looking for a fight
But now he's gone
Ah yeah, only the stones remain

Girls were decked with flowers and violated while
Boys spat juice from out of their fresh young bulbs
Soldiers crossed their hearts and died and
Pretty girls turned cold inside
But now they're gone
Only the stones remain
Oh they're gone, yeah
Only the stones remain

And the stones have forgotten them
The stones have forgotten them

They break your body and drain the life out of it
It sinks into the soil while the soul flies up into the air above
And when there's no more tears to cry, there's
Nothing left to do but laugh
Stained glass elaborations collapse and candyfloss evaporates, honey
Only the stones remain, here they go
Ah yeah, only the stones remain

Now they're gone
Ah yeah, only the stones remain
Ah yeah, only the stones remain

Girls were decked with flowers and ovulated while
Colored drums expressed the night
There's a taxidermist grinnin' with delight

The Soft Boys

Silver Magic Ships You Carry

Sugar Man



Sugar man, won’t you hurry
‘Cos I’m tired of these scenes
For a blue coin won’t you bring back
All those colors to my dreams

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man met a false friend
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man you’re the answer
That makes my questions disappear
Sugar man ‘cos I’m weary
Of those double games I hear

Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man,
Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man

Sugar man, won’t you hurry
‘Cos I’m tired of these scenes
For the blue coin won’t you bring back
All those colors to my dreams

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man met a false friend
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man you’re the answer
That makes my questions disappear

Sixto Rodríguez

Women of the Working Class

We are women, we are strong
We are fighting for our lives,
side by side with the men
who work the nation's mines.
United by the struggle,
United by the past.. and it's
Here we go, here we go
For the women of the working class.

Don't need government approval
for anything we do,
We don't need their permission
to have a point of view.
Don't need anyone to tell us what to think
or what to say
We've strength enough and wisdom of our
own to go our own way.

They talk about statistics, about the
price of coal; the cost is the communities,
dying on the dole.
In fighting for our future, we find ways to organise;
Where women's liberation failed to move,
this strike has mobilised.

Ours is a unity that threats could never
breach; ours an education
that books could never teach.
We face the taunts and violence of Maggie's
thugs in blue;
When you're fighting for survival, you've got
nothing, nothing left to lose.

Women Against Pit Closures

This song is from the 1984 - 1985 miners strike. Women of the Working Class, written by Mal Finch has become an anthem to the women involved in the miners struggle. The Thatcher government planned mass pit closures with huge job losses for the miners concerned and the devastation of their communities and the miners fought back with long-lasting strikes. It was a long and bitter struggle and there were running battles between police and strikers. At the time footage was played backwards on TV to make it look like the strikers had attacked the police first to try and discredit them and their struggle. This was admitted years later but by then the damage was done. Apart from the state violence there was the poverty miners had to face from being without pay for so long. Without the support of their wives and girlfriends who turned up at the picket lines and kept the picketers fed it is doubtful whether the miners would have been able to keep up the strike for as long as they did. It was a real joint effort and community effort. The strike became famous and something of a cause celebre. Well-known people from the entertainment industry voiced their support. Miners support groups sprang up around Britain. The miners' wives became as much heroines of the strike as the male miners. But Margaret Thatcher the Conservative Prime Minister stubbornly refused to listen and lots of jobs were lost and lives ruined. It is the one thing Thatcher is probably most notorious for. She also weakened the trade unions by making secondary picketing illegal. Strikes were more successful under her fellow-Tory Edward Heath. He resigned as the result of a strike as he was not as ruthless. Although a Tory, Heath was seen as a bit more human than Thatcher. Even left-Labour Tony Benn acknowleged this when people were paying tribute to Heath after his death. Edward Heath was actually to the left of New Labour, if you can imagine a Tory being associated with the word "Left", which shows how far to the right successive UK governments have moved. Thatcher in defeating the National Union of Mine-workers ( the NUM ), traditionally the strongest union in Britain, set the country on a path that has moved ever more to the right with the continual eroding of workers' rights. New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did not reverse Thatcherite policies and just developed them further with their program of cuts and attacks on services and the poor and now the current Conservative Lib-Dem coalition is continuing the attacks still further. Luckily, people are still fighting back and some other unions have grown stronger over the years. TrishMaryHill

Wealth Inequality in America

Spend your days down in the dirt

Walls Come Tumbling Down

You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know we've always been taught to rely
Upon those in authority -
But you never know until you try
How things just might be -
If we came together so strongly
Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change -
YES an' walls can come tumbling down!
Governments crack and systems fall
'cause Unity is powerful -
Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!
The competition is a colour TV
We're on still pause with the video machine
That keep you slave to the H.P.
Until the Unity is threatend by
Those who have and who have not -
Those who are with and those who are without
And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot -
Until you don't know where you are
Are you gonna realize
The class war's real and not mythologized
And like Jericho - You see walls can come tumbling down!
Are you gonna be threatend by
The public enemies No. 10 -
Those who play the power game
They take the profits - you take the blame -
When they tell you there's no rise in pay
Are you gonna try an' make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt -
You see things CAN change -
YES an' walls can come tumbling down!

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