Anarchist Lyrics

Been in hospital for a couple of days now (nothing to worry about) and so I'm getting a little bit bored. To stimulate myself, and maybe some new anarcho-punk chat on here, I thought I'd ask you all which song lyrics do you think are particularly good at capturing anarchism or an anarchist sentiment. I guess I'm thinking 'direct advocacy' kind of stuff rather than the more negative anti-system type stuff. I think Conflict have captured quite well a few times, such as an 'CRASS' and '1986, The Battle Continues' but actually can't think of too much. What about your fine selves?

 

Cheers, Mar, I'll get right on that. Recently downloaded The Instigators album from here, really like that. Another song that I like in it's expression of a cooperative/anarchist message is Subhumans' "Us Fish must Swim Together".

The reason, I imagine, that lyrics aren't included is because they'd take up a lot of space on a thread and not many of us have them in a document to be downloaded. Besides that, most of them are easy enough to discover on the net. For the benefit of those who don't know the Subhumans lyrics I mentioned:

OK let's start at the beginning / When fishes roamed the sea / They swam around before anything else / In ten million years B.C. / Then one day they decided / To evolve into vertebrates / And a few came out of the water / And got drunk to celebrate
Soon, well when I say "soon" I mean / A coupla million years / They evolved into various quadrupeds / With legs and things and ears / And about a trillion aeons later / They went all civilized / And built lots of bombs and council flats / That reached into the skies
The moral of this tale, you see /We are descended from the fish / And if we progress much further / We'll put our lives at risk / We're starting to destroy ourselves / With pollution, war, and greed / When food and sex and water / Is all we really need / When "sink or swim" is the choice you get / You cannot swim forever / You need support to keep you alive / Us fish must swim together!

 

Listening to the Balagan album now. I just downloaded it on the recommendation with no prior knowledge - I'd assume it was to be some straight-ahead rough and ready discore. Wow, was I wrong! This is a totally unexpected treat. Nice one.

 

Been listening to them both a lot. It's great. I could really imagine being arm-in-arms, beer in hand singing some of these live! Would be great. 'Our Parade' for example. Great stuff.