Tag: Songs for the Apocalypse
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Bands Of The Apocalypse: Lightning Bolt
Click or not: Bands Of The Apocalypse: Lightning BoltExperiencing Lightning Bolt (because you don’t just listen to them) could be a metaphor for the maelstrom we have been sucked into. Most don’t really get it and cower in the corner, while the willing embrace the darkness and see right through it. It’s gonna hurt, but it’ll be worth it. …
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Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Click or not: Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be NextFor over twenty years it’s been a brilliant song, it was just never realised the Manic Street Preachers were predictive programmers as well as great musicians. The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Bullets for your brain… …
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Songs For The Apocalypse: On A Bus
Click or not: Songs For The Apocalypse: On A BusZombies ride buses and take orders. Liquor market Lots of flats Another 24-hour chemist Self-Serve gas I said all these things serve me well I said all these things serve me well It’s hypnotizing It sends me to sleep No one talks to anyone else It’s frightening Everybody’s minds are blank Oh – oh… …
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Songs For The Apocalypse: 2 + 2 = 5
Click or not: Songs For The Apocalypse: 2 + 2 = 5Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I’ll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I’ll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April’s showers And two and two always makes a five It’s the devil’s way now There is no way out You can… …
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Songs for the Apocalypse: The Fear
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: The FearIt’s everywhere and you’ve caught it. …
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Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket Michael Franti knew social injustice when he saw it, but being aware is so 90s… just substitute whatever crisis we’re facing at any given time and it’s easy to see why this song endures. …
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Songs for the Apocalypse: The Wake-Up Bomb
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: The Wake-Up BombREM could well stand for resplendent en masse as they, like the rest of us, would “rather be anywhere, doing anything” as they drop a seriously tight (and sartorial) Wake-Up Bomb back in ’95. …