[Intro] Time to tackle something a little bigger Guys, what you saying? [Verse 1] My manifestos buried at the end of the garden A shoe box full of perishing parchment I cling tight to the dreams that I still harbour Til I hear the shrill bark of the drill sergeant I march in expensive boots But Im marching to somebody elses tune Still I pay the piper in plain dollars Pile my papes while I try to remain conscious Another number on the payroll Braintrained from the strain of the sameoldsameold But when I get my chain swoll Then Im going AWOL from you Aholes On a quest for my piece of mind Until then, Imma give you all a piece of mine Fuck the internet, and fuck TV My free speech is kneedeep in faeces Next levels of horror Where the crest on your chest is a medal of honour Repeat the news but dont dare speak the truth They got us hanging from a neon noose They sell it, we buy it, its mostly horse shit The funds go to forces to go start wars with We get bored so we go buy more shit That all ends up in the ground with our corpses What a beautiful lie Exhaust the fuel supply til theres no more blue in the sky We gotta keep em in check Rally the troops man, Ill put an Arab Spring in their step Cos its about time times changed Bars rattle on the cage of my minds frame And when its time Im [?] My manifesto ready for the day we ditch the dirt [Verse 2] My manifesto sits in a battered notepad On a sheet from my life that I grasp with both hands Inkstained passion in a backwards old land Keep the fire burning where the haggard folks stand Three square meals for your malnourished masses Every menu thats present is stagnant or plastic We present a splendid banquet for your pallet Ample calories for the ravenous and famished Keep my belly filled with a thirst for fascination Retails irrelevant, you cant purchase amazement Strive for the riches not earned with the wages A swollen bank roll dont determine my status Carving a niche with my plough in the dirt Seeds from my furrowed brow flower in the earth Take root in the underground, now we emerge Spoonful of wonderful powering the nerves Billboard remedies filled with empty promise March past the paving slabs flecked with the vomit Plasticine landscape invested with profit Grayshaded and grim, cant pretend that I want it Paint the world with my rainbow, splash in the puddles Dance in a thunderstorm, laugh off your troubles Cast off yesterdays panic and greed Theres a cabinet of wonders, just ask for the key [Verse 3] Yo, I march pavements Uniform charity shopbought cos of sweat shops and child labour Getting more fat and more rich off my paper No weapons on show for the moment Milktop medals all spark in the sunlight Got a blank flag wedged in belt And I still been hitched to my hip for the drum time Manifesto tied on my back so I turn another cheek and I still touch numb minds Ill sun you or shun you Youll get it if you read But I can summarise in one line The meek shall inherit the earth So youd better watch out for them quiet ones Got a steeltoed boot, its the right one For any TV screen that is seen on my route Knees swing, [?] bring truth And inky black fingers from hours on the tube I leave their signs stained Or up go the blinkers, cos I aint letting them in my brain Its about time times changed Landslide and the wave brewing down heres tidal I sound off in silence, march head high with my mind on the signs and the cycles
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