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THE DOOR 12"EP

by NO SIR I WON'T

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1.
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE? IN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE YOU A SLAVE? WILL YOU STAND OR WILL YOU KNEEL WHEN THEY THREATEN ALL YOU LOVE? THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS FROM ABOVE WILL YOU BOW BEFORE THE MASTERS? No Sir, I Won't. the spark of life is lost when organization becomes institution when choices are made based only on tradition no system should endure beside the timeless works of art that last for beauty's sake, because they're born within our hearts but they've built the wall of history up so high, that now we can't see over tear it down, and use the stones to build our future the bones of nation-states, the shattered remnants of society it all gets swept aside by the rushing, sweeping forward tide the time has come to ask what it means to be alive well? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE? IN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE YOU A SLAVE? THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF AUTHORITY [as i stare out at the city and think of all the people whose lives have come before i hear the sounds getting closer the weaver and the carpenter prepare themselves for war i look out over the crowd with my back to the wall someday it will crumble someday it will fall] this decaying edifice which we have built is not democracy and if we build on it's foundations what's the end for you and me? (authority) from Berlin to Palestine, we hear the people's voices call for we've never brooked entrapment in their jails, behind their walls we've seen the impossible made real, as with one then so with all someday they have to crumble, someday they have to fall we've fought for far too long with the weapons that they gave us our thoughts and words dictated by our repressive education we must liberate our spirits, wrest our minds from their control we must never give up until each of us is whole until every human is just that, a human, just themselves not a demographic, not a target audience, not a source of revenue, not a voting bloc, just an individual, until then there can be no true liberty in the face of authoritarian governance there can be no autonomy there can be only one true answer to the question of authority, to participation in the system, to the lure of false democracy... No Sir, I Won't.
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ELEVATORS 03:21
how can i find the truth when i can't even find a job? we're too busy making things easier to notice what we've lost okay, okay how can i sell myself when i don't even know the cost? we're too busy making things cheaper to find out what we've lost the elevator's waiting but we're still on the ground floor IS IT THE DOOR THAT KEEPS US OUT? or is it something more? we've got a lot to do but it's not shit, i know, i know the endless loop repeating while the elevator's waiting Human dignity and self-respect cannot be constrained by the laws of nations nor can they be destroyed by the souless technology with which we surround ourselves progress is just one more empty notion thrust upon us by this society while we drift further and further from the essence of a compassionate life we think we've got the answer but we've got to face reality we've got it the wrong way around invention is the mother of necessity! necessity! well what do you need? what do you really need? they're not selling the product, it's the con Edison knew this selling an infrastructure, selling a need one used to serve so many, now everyone's got their own do you even know how hard it is to find a public telephone? the clock outside the bank, the church bells in the square we've cut the cord of community, but no one seems to care how can i find the truth? when i'm just a human being being human and I never did like elevators. I'd rather take the stairs.
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HARRY HARLOW 03:31
oh, isn't it amazing? that monkey's got no brain that one just runs in circles, and that one's so well trained and see that little girl, the one with nothing in her eyes the nurse makes a notation in the chart each time she cries a cold steel embrace the silence of the grave torturing another just to learn how we behave now open the door, take a look at the rest every last humiliation, every battery of tests every atom split to sanctify the temples of your will while the old gods lie in ruin and the monkeys suffer still innocence lost forever, a cold steel embrace pleas for reason fade away in the silence of the grave advance the cause of humanity by torturing another is it worth the price we pay just to learn how we behave? follow the wires back from the monkey's head to the robot arm it uses to please its captors, as the worker uses her sweat to please the manager but who is watching from the other side of the glass? God? Harry Harlow? Josef Mengele? if we can bridge the gap of nature we can recreate reality in our own image but are our minds so infallible, is our vision so pure? it's just the smallest step from this side of the glass to that animals and humans lie side by side on the altar they've got us trained, they've inserted their machines into every aspect of our lives we're already the ones in the experiment exploit the weak, the worker, doglike as he is rape the woman, whose needs mean nothing and whose body is your crucible THIS IS THE MESSAGE! by allowing the torture of animals we've opened the door to degradation, dehumanization, boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom but now the wires are in our heads and they're plugged into our brains it's not for science or manufacture it's to drive us totally insane just an alternating current that's all we really are flip the switch to negative now we're the robot arm!
4.
no more fucking poetry that world is done we've sold off all the metaphors we've pawned the moon, the sun and layed them in the ground beside our old imagination beside the corpse of history just stories that they tell to us not written by the victors because no one is victorious the ghost of 1984 nothing means much anymore the future is so bright that we've all been blinded by it the old world is gone it's a new world, but there's no bravery we've gotta find a new life we must be free oh you're bored of politics? well so the fuck am i but just because you close your eyes won't make it go away oh the party's over? well what a tragedy but did you really that kindness could be replaced by greed? if you hide your head beneath the sand the rest of you is going to end up underneath the ground if you're only watching your own back you won't even notice when the television screens have gone to black WE'VE GOTTA FIND A NEW LIFE
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(REPRISE) 01:48
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in this town See me and the boys we don't like it So were getting up and going down Hiding low looking right to left If you see us coming I think it's best To move away do you hear what I say From under my breath Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Don't you be around Tonight there's gonna be trouble Some of us won't survive See the boys and me mean business Bustin' out dead or alive I can hear the hound dogs on my trail All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail Like the game if you lose Go to jail Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Tonight there's gonna trouble I'm gonna find myself in Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So woman stay with a friend You know it's safer Breakout! Tonight there's gonna be a breakout Into the city zones Don't you dare to try and stop us No one could for long Searchlight on my trail Tonight's the night all systems fail Hey you good lookin' female Come here! Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Tonight there's gonna be trouble I'm gonna find myself in Tonight there's gonna be trouble So woman stay with a friend
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was there ever a time when everything turned out right, when we didn't have to fight for every breath? was there ever a time when we didn't feel this way, when life didn't just mean hanging on day to day? was there ever a place where we were really safe, or was it all just the ignorance of youth? when you gonna realize? when you gonna realize what you gotta do? when you gonna realize it ain't about you? when you gonna realize? was there ever a world that really cared for us, or were we just too blind to see the truth? was there ever a song that really meant something, or did we sing just because we felt alone? how can we fight for justice, fight for love, fight for peace when we're so full of despair? when you gonna realize? when you gonna realize what you gotta do? when you gonna realize it ain't about you? when you gonna realize? love is not a plaything for the rich and powerful and hate, well you taught us to hate, we never had a choice at all born into a system of institutionalized greed but it's just another effect, a product of your social policies blind to what is false and what is true the smiling faces on TV, they don't know what to do when you gonna realize that every one of us down here is just like you the halls of power echo with the adman's brittle laugh our poetry corrupted by accountants selling "truth" when you gonna realize that every tear, each drop of blood, every bead of sweat is not enough to fill the emptiness, these cities of your ruin the burden of our knowledge gained but wisdom lost, our history dead our institutions crumble more each day when you gonna realize the flood is coming, the water's rising, no saviours this time, we must make our own love when you gonna realize what you've gotta do? when you gonna realize it ain't about you? a million people in the same position a billion people, and all of them wishing that they could be you, but it's easy to be free when you're part of the problem, just a leaf on the tree while we're being punished for accepting a fate we don't want to begin with we never asked to be part of this I don't want to be part of this we never asked to be part of this i refuse to be part of this

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Released May 2013 on FRAMEWORK LABEL
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