LYRIC: We Are The Rascal Multitude

I had a dream the other night

A teacher barking orders at the class

But instead of obeying

Some kids put up their hands and politely asked

How life would be, if from an early age

We were all treated as equals not as someone else's slaves

The class agreed that they wouldn't let themselves

Be pushed around unquestioned by anybody else

We all accept too much

This rogue consensus

Whilst deep inside we see

Better possibilities 

Each day there's someone who says no

Questioning norms and analyzing facts

This rebel lives inside us all

It is that itch we're so afraid to scratch

But still we do because we know that something's wrong

The game has been corrupted and we just won't play along

And so many of us try in our own little ways

To struggle through conventions and try to make a change

And they, the ones in charge

Shake, scared, and try so hard

To quell the rabble's dissent

But we just come back again

We are the rascal multitude 

Here to voice our opinions too

There's more of us than there are of you

And together we just cannot lose

You've manipulated much too much

Made us buy into all of your myths

But we never go away

We keep on coming back

We can see when we're cheated

And who exactly is stacking the decks

You try and cloud our seeing eyes

And say we're free when we're clearly oppressed

You have the tools, the media and money

And I guess you think it's funny that we're dying for your cause

But still we come, struggling against you

You may silence one movement but there's always plenty more

For life, lived on our knees

Is not life, it's slavery

We won't rest until we're free

And we've smashed your ideology

We are the rascal multitude 

Here to voice our opinions too

There's more of us than there are of you

And together we just cannot lose

You've manipulated much too much

Made us buy into all of your myths

But we never go away

We keep on coming back

We are the rascal multitude

We'll never go away

LYRIC: Socrates Wept

I was going to work and I wondered why

I was paying my rent and I wondered why

I was following the rules and I wondered why

I was ignoring my thoughts and I wondered why

I was watching TV and I wondered why

I was believing the news and I wondered why

I was supporting the war and I wondered why

I was feeling quite sick and I wondered why

Resist the unexamined life

I was buying more things and I wondered why

I was praying to God and I wondered why

I was voting last year and I wondered why

I was smoking again and I wondered why

I was hating myself and I wondered why

I was blinding myself and I wondered why

I was denying myself and I wondered why

So much acceptance unthinking and I wondered why

Resist the unexamined life

LYRIC: The Bigger Picture

Lost in sensationalism, a pop-culture prison

Incoherent image parade

Another news flash, but nothing that lasts

Just soundbites and vacuous commentary

Here today gone tomorrow, our media forsakes

It's purpose to keep us informed

Preferring to make a climate fit for shopping

Than one fit for democracy

We're living in the information age

And we know less than we did before

We see the words and feel the emotions they want us to feel 

But miss out on understanding

As shallow reporting abut non-incidents

Takes precedent over our need to be informed

On issues affecting our lives

Not about what there is to buy

Disjointed stories out of context 

Give us nothing but so much wasted paper

The information superhighway

Has been diverted down a byway

Keeping us fooled, by their slanting

Feed us the facts sans understanding

They're out to please advertisers not to inform you or me

Flickering visuals

News shown like rock videos

Incomplete events

A billion stories all sadly lacking and

Stop!

What about the bigger picture?

They're out to please advertisers, not to inform you or me.

LYRIC: Same Ideologies/ Different Hairstyles

They're doing that dance again

Using all the same moves

Each one claiming concern

And an interest in you

They offer me up a choice

That gives me no choice

And participation

That gives me no voice

My representatives represent nothing I want or need

Behind the rhetoric and lies, there ain't nothing but greed

Same ideologies different hairstyles, same pro-freemarket creed

The choice of who sickens me less, that's my democracy

They say all the right things, promise us the earth

Such meaningless statements, the truth as clear as dirt

The same mistake every four years

And when has it ever paid off?

They play on our hopes and our fears

And fuck us again and again and again

They're raking it in-as we are suffering-just to profit them

No choice-between the parties-it's just the monied-whose interests are taken account of

When there's no meaning left in voting, disenfranchised all are we

We can't let them get away with this deception anymore

We are the many and they just the priveledged few

We have the numbers now all that's left to do is to...

Find our hearts, build our strength and reclaim what is ours once again