'Mutiny' Captain Oi! Records (AHOY CD 305) Sept 2008
JUKEBOX GENERATION
I was listening to the radio
Another false prophet manifesto
From the summer of love to the season of hate
The past is set in stone but the future is up for grabs!
Every generation has got to deal with the blues
The jukebox played dead men’s tunes
Their souls come alive and fill the room
The boys a primadonna, a rock ‘n’ roll star!
The past is set in stone but the future is up for grabs!
You live and die and you’re bought and sold
I hope I live before I get old
Feeling nostalgia for an age yet to come...
I still can’t get no satisfaction!
RIOT! RIOT!
I got a moral dilemma; it changes with the weather
You think you’re pretty smart but you ain’t that clever
I hate violence and here come the cops
All great truths end in paradox!
Stand up for your rights
Riot! Riot!
Riot! Riot!
We’re gonna riot tonight!
From old LA to Moscow town
The Cops are bringing their truncheons down
Too much tension on the dance floor
Tear gas gets in your chokey, chokey throat
MUTINY!
Seaside born and seaside bred – hail, hail, mutiny!
Strong in the arm and strong in the head
I seek my love on the high seas
I found my love between your knees!
Mutiny, mutiny
Let’s take the ship with a mutiny
Avast ye swabs and clean the decks
All god’s children and scallywags
Ship to sea and ship to shore
I had a salty girl in every port
To live beyond the law you gotta be honest
To live beyond the law you gotta tell the truth
To live beyond the law you got to be honest
To live beyond the law you gotta tell the truth
This city’s on steroids, it’s pumped up and wild
You’re never so lonely than when you’re a face in the crowd
Finger on my pistol I’m going to explode!
I’m a loaded gun I’m out of control...
BEYOND GOD AND ELVIS
Jesus was a prophet
Born the Son of God
Preached against the decadence
Of priests on the hill
The people are just trying to find something to believe in
The Spanish Inquisition
Was asking awkward questions
Welcome to the salvation
Of the resurrection...
You’re welcome to your paradise
And I’m welcome to mine!
Well that’s right daddio!!!!!
Elvis was an icon
Began the celebrity age
Cathode ray Christ’s
Fill an empty space
The people are just trying to find something to believe in
Well that’s right daddio!!!!!
EVERYBODY’S ON DRUGS
Chokey, chokey, chokey
smokey smokers smoking
The chokey smoker maker laughs at you...
Big fat profits, big fat cigars
Sir Walter Raleigh we blame you!!!!
Don’t get mad get Valium
Choose your own poison!
Everybody’s getting high
Everybody’s on drugs
Coca coca cola makes you feel colder
Pill-popping politicians poison their petty little minds
Narcotic vortex, hooked on the cortex
Lysergic tumbling, stumbling ‘to the void
CITY OF GHOSTS
Tumbling through a neon-lit antiseptic reality
Running past billboards advertising nothing
I melted in the sponsored summer sun
I saw the girl with the cyberspace face; she smiled with plastic teeth
Turned on by the static babble of endless media channels
Tumble on past the polyurethane plastic hi-tech baubles
Antiseptic not real but somehow erotic
I lost the girl with the imaginary face in a haze of acid rain
DO THE NEO CON
The sniffling swine stare at the truffles
The powerful service the trough
Animal farm we are the pigs
Get the noses to the scoff
The big cock crows
And the beasts fall into line
The neo con farmyard
Have a greedy good time
DO THE NEO CON!!!!!
DJ Adolph Hitler, media controller
Tells you what to play
It sucks, it sucks, it really sucks
Every bleedin’ day!
What you gonna listen to
When you dance to the freak!
What you gonna do
When the pampered clown speaks?
DO THE NEO CON!!!!!
AMERICA DESTROYS ALL ITS HEROES
Far too many preachers miss the original sin
Mickey mouse lost it in a drugs binge
Burn baby burn in the Promised Land
The sun never sets on the celluloid dream
Hollywood, Hollywood
John Lennon, JFK
America destroys all its heroes,
We still love the stars and stripes
America destroys all its heroes
Zeroes, turn them into...
A special relationship split by a common tongue
I thought I knew you but I didn’t know you at all
Born in the USA or watching from miles away
With every tabloid dream there is heartache
Hollywood, Hollywood
Elvis Presley! MLK!
America destroys all its heroes
But we still love the star and stripes
America destroys all its heroes
Zeroes they turn them into
KIDS OF TODAY
The old dead flesh were flushed with their jealousy of youth
But the new meat couldn’t understand the wisdom of old truth
In the future concrete of far-off Pompeii
The kids were rioting in the amphitheatre today
Oh my god – kids of today
We was dancing on the Berlin Wall as the old guard stood by
Smash the concrete with bare hands as history started to smile...
Multicoloured mirror ball Mohicans on the seafront Horror show hobnail hair who you calling...
WHERE HAVE ALL THE RUDE BOYS GONE?
Do you remember those long-lost years?
Of misplaced love and unrequited fear?
Teenage sex in the discotheque
We were so alive...now my friends are dead!
The city is full of jiving ghosts
Bones turned to dust ‘neath paving stones
Spoilt kidz of the apocalypse
Dancing on the graves of the graveyard shifts
D.I.Y
In the city halls counting decibels
Council crushes all alien culture
Shut down the clubs, lifestyle busts
Under heavy manners every day!
D.I.Y. is doing it for yourself
Don’t consume create, Xerox the template
Get on stage and communicate!
