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Burn It To The Ground
04:24
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I was born in a cage in a cold and overcrowded place
every night when I’d go to sleep I’d be dreamin’ of the days when we’d be free
All the things that I have seen,
I have watched my brothers get thrown into that machine
But no more the time is now to burn this old prison to the ground!
Burn it to the ground, burn it to the ground
until every factory farm and abattoir has crumbled down
and if you show resistance or if you refuse to change
then I am here to tell you there’s a fire on the way
If you change the way were raised
do you think you’re conscience will be saved
You can label us as ethical organic or free range
but in the end, it is all the same
Just another way to send us to our graves
Can’t you see it’s all the same,
we all have a heartbeat and blood coursing through our veins
They’ll try to deny us and try to keep us tightly bound
But together we can burn them to the ground
Burn it to the ground! Burn it to the ground!
Soon the rising embers of compassion will surround
Your draconian traditions as they’re swallowed by the flames
So heed this as a warning there’s a fire on the way
Now I have come to realise its the system that’s to blame
Wherever there is murder there is money to be made
All you crooked politicians who commodify our lives
You can try and run but there is nowhere left to hide
There’s a fire on its way to you tonight… tonight
So Burn it to the ground! Burn it to the ground!
One day songs of love and liberation will resound
And echo through the ages when the war was won
So strike a match and know that there are better times to come
Lets watch it burn!
Lets watch it burn!
Lets watch it burn now never to return!
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2. |
Swift Song
03:56
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I’m a vagrant, there’s no land to which I’m bound
I spend most of my life in the sky
I remember that time I took a fall
and I lay there grounded for a while
When you found me, I was broken and bruised,
lost and confused in a daze
But you told me that things would be ok
When summers gone you’d send me on my way
You will see me flying once again,
from those far-off places, I have been
When I hear that calling and the south wind blows
I'll be on my way back home
I couldn’t stay here any longer by your side,
I knew they’d come a time for me to go
Cause I'm a migrant Im a harbinger of spring
and this need for travelling is all I know
So you took me out to the valley way up high,
I felt the air surround me and I flew
I was weightless, a silhouetted scimitar,
you were watching from afar as I drifted from your view
You will see me flying once again,
from those far-off places, I have been
When I hear that calling and the south wind blow
I'll be on my way back home
I was dreamin’, I was sleeping on the wing
And I was wondering if you knew
What it feels like beneath the silver crescent moon
Knowing one day soon the sky will bring me back to you
Where you will see me flying once again,
from those far-off places, I have been
When I hear that calling and the south wind blows
I’ll be on my way back home
I’ll be on my way back home
I’ll be on my way back home
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3. |
Cycles
04:46
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Let me fill you in on the holes you are missing
in your heart and in your brain
You need to reevaluate the way you’re thinking about the food chain
Cause it's insane
how many innocent lives that are born each day
And stolen from their mothers' udder,
can you imagine your child being taken away?
Well, it's unnatural you see
its not the way these things should be
Human beings have become a parasite,
a virus, causing an outbreak of zoonotic disease
Well if you please will you take this sole advice,
try to live without harm and never take any lives
And don’t abuse the food you choose
let your whole body become a garden of paradise
Well it's a cruel world that we’re living in
but you get to choose if it’s something you’re complicit in
And if you think that you’ll be missing out on minerals and vitamins
Then maybe it's compassion you're deficient in
You say it makes your bone grow, stronger each day
but where do you think the milk that you drink is from?
Do you think that I’m always in this state, ready to lactate
Well if ignorance is bliss,
you must be living in the darkest parts upon the edge of the abyss
Now it’s time to open your eyes wide,
step into the light and then realise
That all the things you see are made of connective energy,
The sun, the moon, the sea, the stars, the sky.
There’s no separation from you and I
So whilst we are here and alive
Won’t you stand beside us
And together we can learn to live without violence
Cause everything that ends will come back once again
Because this life, this life it moves in cycles,
This life it moves in cycles
Somehow the sacred divinity of the cow
has been re-written in the pages of history and now
The only fragments left of our femininity
are from the years and years we’ve been used for our fertility
But now I hear there is a revolution at hand,
to reclaim the soil and re-wild the land
If your economy is based upon supply and demand
you’ve got to demand to find another way to be kind
to every animal and every sentient being
who should be living in the wild and roaming free
If only you could find the time to radicalise your mind and you will find
That everything that you will ever need can be found
if you bury your roots inside the ground
Then the seed of an idea can be sown
and eventually, become a garden overgrown with life
There’s no difference between you and I
Won’t you stand beside us
and together we can learn to live without violence
Cause everything that ends
will come back once again
because this life, this life it moves in cycles,
this life it moves in cycles
We are all the same, oh yes we are, oh yes we are
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4. |
Sink The Nisshen Maru
03:36
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when I was just a boy, I thought that I was free
I did not know the dangers of the great Antarctic sea
I was carried by the tide with my mother by my side
and if I ever swam or strayed too far she would warn
me every time
‘be careful where you breach son
if you go beyond the waves,
there are men out there with ill intent
who’ll take you far away
Now many years have passed since the fishermen attacked
my mother, she was taken off with a harpoon in her back
so I curse these southern seas with a storm that won't relent
until the raging waters drag you down into the depths
So be warned if you go whaling out on the open shores
We will take down every whaling ship
until whaling is no more
Heave ho! watch it go down to the belly of the ocean floor
and we’ll sing and cheer as it disappears
when we sink the Nisshin Maru
Now I have seen the shadows on the surface pass me by
and the nets they cast behind 200 meters wide
leaving nothing but destruction and a red mist in their wake
won’t you hear us when we tell you that we’re not yours to take
So be warned if you go trawling out on the open shores
we will take down every single ship until trawling is no more
Heave ho! watch it go down to the belly of the ocean floor
and we’ll sing and cheer as it disappears
when we sink the Nisshin Maru
I know that I have grown, yet still, I cannot rest
I feel the need for vengeance like an anchor in my chest
so all ye anglers and ye fishermen
come let this be known
Lest you wind up like the rest,
you better turn around and go home
So be warned if you go whaling out on the open shores
we will take down every single ship until whaling is no more
Heave ho! watch it go down to the belly of the ocean floor
and we’ll sing and cheer as it disappears
when we sink the Nisshin Maru
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5. |
The Reckoning
04:39
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Beneath the light of a full moon
a rebellion has begun
Where the exiled and the outcasts
have unified as one
For these wicked crimes against the wild
they cannot be undone
So tonight we bring the reckoning
revenge and retribution
Time and time again
we said to stay away but still
You parade around on horseback
in pursuit of your next kill
Now there’s crimson in the soil
from all the blood that you have spilt
You can take the ground from beneath
our feet but you can’t take our free will
So we slip into the shadows
and the bramble overgrown
And we weave our silent footsteps
to your private stately home
If you look outside your window
you’ll see a thousand eyes aglow
Emerging from the darkness to your door
We’ll reclaim the land you stole with our claws
Oooh will you let yourself succumb
to your instincts, they will guide you to the primal in your blood
When you hear that ancient calling
and the beating of the drum
You should let yourself surrender and become
One of the wild ones
Well the Countryside Alliance
have waged their silent war
Against the ferals and the ramblers
and travellers and the poor
So let's raise up in defiance, we won’t take this anymore
And let the wrath of mother nature
strike her vengeance and restore
The chaos and disorder
which you tried so hard to tame
With your signposts on your fences
that says no entry can be gained
We’ll tear down every single border
man has ever made
Can you feel that fire from within
That says to howl out at the moon
and let the reckoning begin
Oooh will you let yourself succumb
to your instincts, they will guide you to the primal in your blood
When you hear that ancient calling
and the beating of the drum
You should let yourself surrender and become
One of the wild ones
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6. |
Unify
04:40
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I had this reoccurring dream
that the whole world was falling apart at the seams
And no one cared to ask why
there were holes in the sky
Or why the sea had now risen so high
Cause’ they were all too busy and preoccupied
to see the suffering happening before their eyes
Ambivalence spread
like a plague from the dead,
No riots or protests, only silence instead
But when I awoke I saw a glimmer of hope
that cut through the darkness and the mist and the smoke
I saw a child feed the birds in the rain,
which gave me the sense of a feeling
that something could change
If we used our voices all collectively
oh can you imagine just how loud we’d be
Just a singular word could resound and be heard
and teach us all lessons that need to be learnt
Like how there’s a hidden power in community
and compassion is the only cure to apathy
For we have been told to be afraid of our neighbours,
so when they’re in need we will treat them as strangers
These imaginary borders we’ve made
need to be erased so we can start over again
Then up from the ashes, we will rise,
to build a bridge across the divide
We’ve got to come
together as one and unify
How many times do we have to watch the world burn
before we all learn to understand if something doesn’t change
then in years to come all of this will be gone
and I’m afraid we’ll only have ourselves to blame
So join hands, make a stand.
We have got to do what we can
to speak out for those who need us
and fight for their freedom
and if they don’t hear us we’ll sing it again
*repeat twice*
Until up from the ashes we will rise,
to build a bridge across the divide
We’ve got to come
together as one and unify
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7. |
Aila
06:12
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I once knew a bird
Who was forged from the sun and wind so I heard
She was an ember out there in the dark
Beneath all the kindling the gentlest spark to guided me through the unknown
She was my home
I can still recall
Those long summer days
Where peacefully she lay asleep by the doorway
And dream of the woods where we'd wander for miles
amongst the great cedars the oaks and the pines
I know a part of us both still live in that place
Where I can still see her
There in the autumn light
beneath the trees
Oooh how she showed me
How to believe that one day a singular bird
Can change the world
From Sirius, she fell
Burning so bright
Bold and emblazoned
Like starlight
Making her waves
All of the seasons
they come and they pass
But I know that I will keep finding my way back
Back to that place
Where I can still see her
There in the autumn light
Beneath the trees
and I wonder if she can see me
I can still hear
The faint sound of footsteps
The wind in the leaves
In the briefest of moments
I'm here in a dream
Of amber and golden
But it's frayed at the seams
Yet somehow I'm still holding
Onto that feeling
like it never ended
Holding my breath
As I lay there suspended
The light was refracting
Way out from my reach
But you showed me ways to believe
How a singular bird can change the world
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