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Smoke and Gulag - EP1

by Smoke and Gulag

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1.
Red Nose 05:06
Teddy in the corner, dummy spat out We all now suffer your imbecilic shouts. Eyes shifting, scheming, devious cogs glitching Moral high ground circumventing, decency slipping. Hidden agendas with rotting splendour Rules mutating to your own selfish end or Broke impatiently and blatantly again and again Short circuits and cruel wiring in your elitist brain Never underestimate the suited fool Playing by a set of self serving rules Never write off idiot clown in a shirt and tie Red nose red button it might be time to die Opaque and full of hate, snob degeneration Poised to ignore those who implore consideration Full steam ahead guns cocked and loaded All that is good and right swftly eroded Rolling behemoth carving a path through the electorate Bloody financial vampires, what else did we expect An impending crisis with their own immunity certain Manipulated de-mock-racy, call the final curtain
2.
This Town 03:05
Verse1 29 years and I’m tired of this place And I know every face and the lives that they waste And I’ve seen people try and I’ve watched their hopes die And their streets fall apart and their livelihoods fry C) Why can’t this place just let me go Verse 2 I’ve watched pretty towns move steadily down Once greeted with smiles now just a frown Community spirit once given with love now just a haven for thugs and their drugs C) Why can’t this place just let me go x2 Verse 3 The pigs are short staffed and the council ain’t there Preferring new Phones to community care nice housing estates now falling apart Council tax spent on pointless street art Why can’t this place just let me go Verse 4 Jobs have died out and zero h rules Agency work where they treat you like fools Desperate faces in every shop door 90% of them begging to score C) Why can’t this place just let me go x2 Verse 5 One face I knew a hardworking guy Now sleeping by Tesco’s just waiting to die His world in a trolley he takes every where His dignity crushed as I watch people stare C) Why can’t this place just let me go Verse 6 It's hard to fit in and it’s hard to make friends once an outsider outside till the end I’ve been far from perfect I’ve lied and deceived So maybe it’s karma that won’t let me leave C) Why can’t this place just let me go x2
3.
Aristrocity 03:12
Diseased mutant species rule Breeding ever crueler fools Bark and brey such words they say Falsehoods and spilt blood as they play Sly and controlling Spinning and winning From the beginning, power from sinning Corrupted at heart with no remorse Trampled subservients par for the course. Laughing insanely, grinning inanely Profiting from the populous, richer daily Insidious plotting, Inwardly drooling, Speel that's not real but they're so good at fooling Teflon skin, mud never sticks Almost untouchable elitist pricks As slick as oil and just as polluting Power trip leeches with their proles saluting Dummies richly dressed and past their best Falsely deified and expecting nothing less Unblinking and blinkered stinking posh fuckers Grinding heels in our shoulders as we raise them from the gutters Atrocity atrocity So much better than you or me Explain to me why they should be Safe in their towers of ivory
4.
Take It All 05:07
You take and you take but you never give it back Is it any wonder how the people react You take and take and you never give it back This how we feel when we’re under attack Steal from the poor and give it to the rich if the maga cap fits then wear it you shit you shit you Fucker ain’t nothing you ain’t got but it’s never enough you want the whole damn lot When all is said and done you only want one thing that’s money that’s dollars and the power it brings That power that lust the only thing you trust the The only thing you want and you want it from us So you con and you lie and you swindle till we die Every little drop till there’s nothing left to cry Every single trick Till our veins have bled dry When we’re battered and bruised we don’t even ask why
5.
Your anger is misplaced it’s the ones without a face that have you focused on race a divisive tactic that’s practically got you foaming at the mouth gnawing at the strap as they crack the whip and we do our bit Go to work sweat and bleed do as your told and do what we need You don’t get paid to think , now work and drink until you sink into the pit of despair and don’t pretend you’ve never been there , we all have we all question why we all shit and bleed and cry so work till you die then you can buy those nice things those trinkets and rings, those baubles and phones and TVs that give the illusion of being free of being happy when what we can’t see is that they are all just links in the chain that binds us that grind us into nothing more than flesh machines, expendable until we’re no longer useful ,then cast us aside and there’s no place to hide just the illusion of normalcy that is in truth just slavery . Bravery doesn’t help when your just another whelp in the melting pot ,another tiny cog in the infinite machine that demeans and has no meaning save for perpetual existence so resist all you like,you're just a speck, a fleck of dust in the eye of the beholder whether young or older it matters not not an inch, not a jot it's hard to believe that this is your lot But still we're concerned with what others have got, keep rivalry alive as a means to survive, to keep us distracted from the fact that we're owned that we're trash, our value defined with cold hard cash Or cars or houses or horses or clothes ,your bank balance is full but you're still fucking owned We're all fucking cloned in schools and in work,with tv and rules and agendas, all made to put us in our place that space that was reserved from the day we were born till the day that we die Try step out of line and I'm sure you'll find that they're on you like a ton of bricks those morally corrupt pricks those so called elite that defeat at every turn, like they know every next move but they're just tugging the strings they say jump we say how high we don't question why we just do and die . We just complain and comply Yes we're fucking angry but the anger is misplaced divide and conquer keeps us sitting firmly in our place

about

A collaboration between Rich Gulag and Blind Johnny Smoke.

Rich Gulag lives in Nottingham and is also guitarist for anarcho punk band Pedagree Skum and the Black Light Mutants. Always anti fascist.

Blind Johnny Smoke hails from Stafford. He is also a founder member of Flesh Eating Foundation, one half of The Mannequin Factory and member of Sideblinder, Men With Mallets and also contributes to Theresia.

Available as limited hand dubbed cassette. Please note, European customers may be hit with additional charges due to post Brexit customs stuff.

credits

released August 1, 2021

Rich Gulag:
Lyrics and voice (2, 4, 5), music (1, 3)

Blind Johnny Smoke:
Lyrics and voice (1, 3), music (2, 4, 5)

Freya Sheppard:
Additional voice (4)

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