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Going Home
03:49
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I was early everyday
Hung out when asked to stay
And when I had something happening, I stayed anyway
Hung around at night
Walked away from each fight
And when you gave me no good reason, I still did you right
Going home, going home
And I wont be back no more
When I walk through that door
I wont come back through it no more
Going home where it suits my bones
Going home, going home
Often worked through lunch
Never saw my pay go up much
Lost count of the dates I should’ve been on those penalty rates
Took my holidays when told
Won’t be no golden handshake when I’m old
I’m here to say that I’m on my way, yeah
Going home, going home
And I wont be back no more
When I walk through that door
I wont come back through it no more
Going home where it suits my bones
Going home, going home
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A Healthy Democracy
03:37
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Vote on an add campaign, its all the same solution
And those candidates are chosen by faceless factions
Branch stacking is participation
Hope your Democracy’s going well
Hope your Democracy’s going real well
Hope your Democracy’s going well
‘Cause the one I’ve been living in has only been delivering empty slogans
Speech it sure ain't free when it’s under monopoly
Barrack like a partisan they say anything they can
Paid opinion for a news bulletin
The War on Horror and other three word slogans
Sweetshop owner has got candy man distractions
All they got was endless free promotion
Hope your Democracy’s going well
Hope your Democracy’s going real well
Hope your Democracy’s going well
‘Cause the one I’ve been living in has only been addressing hungry bogans’
The bells been chiming now says the weathers gonna get rough
Where I been living in they don’t wanna do too much
Except protect their vested interests
Hope your Democracy’s going well
Hope your Democracy’s going real well
Hope your Democracy’s going well
‘Cause the one I’ve been living in has only been delivering empty slogans
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The Trickle Down Blues
02:44
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Well the way that they distribute the wealth
The only put it on the rich folks shelf
And let the hoard it to themselves
Saying ‘hang on you know it’s gonna trickle down’
But you know it’s not like that
It just stays where it’s at
And the single one percent
They just hog it
It was gonna trickle down, from the ceiling to the floor
Froze up on top of a mountain and stayed up there forever more
Now they got this opiate for the mass
It doubles off when it siphons off your cash
On a platform you get to play for free
It nodding off except in front of a screen
Its just technology
It doesn’t mean you wealthy
You can take your aspirations
Pass them to the next generation
It was gonna trickle down, from the ceiling to the floor
Froze up on top of a mountain and stayed up there forever more
One thing that’s just so plain
We’re stuck playing a stalemate game
One thing that’s just too far
Being verballed by investment bankers
It was gonna trickle down, from the ceiling to the floor
Froze up on top of a mountain and stayed up there forever more
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Blake County and the Modern Proletariats Melbourne, Australia
Building from traditional progressions of the early country folk blues recordings; with the lyrics that are a tribute to Woody Guthrie, but not so much the sentimental stuff, more the satirical end of his work. Blake County and the Modern Proletariats are mostly singing contemporary commentary with the intention to amuse. ... more
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