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The Shopping Malls EP

by Slow Faction

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Shopping Malls & Suburbia Downtown in the city of dreams Your personal paradise Or is it hell, so tantalising You’ll never feel satisfied Blinded by the lights Consumption takes the place of feeling The only values now are empty and devoid of meaning You’re boring me with your mundane lives – so predictable Just shopping malls and suburbia – so predictable Evil happens while the stupid just sit by That’s you if you hadn’t noticed Will you never decide which side you’re on....oh no..... You deny society In your disinfected life Privileged since the day you were born Susceptible to their lies Sleepwalking to a right wing future Going to take us nowhere All you care about is what you want and how you get it And all the time....the storm clouds are gathering... We’re heading for oblivion
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Clear Channel Got a licence for syndication Pump it out, there’s poison in the air 55 hundred local stations Top 40 under central diktat The taming of a supine nation No time to think, you’re doing just what you’re told A disenfranchised population Segregated by the values they once held And now they’re trying to make you think the same So wave goodbye to your plurality, your civil liberties Your democracy is dead Clear channel fascist redneck radio Clear channel fascist redneck radio Clear channel fascist redneck radio Trivialise....broadcasting lies....lowest common denominator Mind control for the blinkered masses Clear channel fascist redneck radio....alright... A noble culture of toleration Now consigned to the values of the past What hope now for a generation? Brought up to hate anyone that’s different What’s the point in dissemination? Can’t you see, it’s easier just to lie Direct action and demonstrations Lone voices in the wilderness
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Hate Mail 04:10
Hate Mail Little missy sitting pretty, waiting for the tube Her mind’s no wider than her alice band, she’s never seen the other side At public school she learned the rules on how to have it all And then at university, no need to think, just have a ball She reads her morning paper, it’s her window on the world She only skims the headlines but that’s still enough to poison minds Everything she thinks she knows, confirmed in black and white God is in his heaven and the leader writer speaks of what is right A world defined by narrow minds where everything conforms To opinions based on ignorance, self-centered fear and spite A nation held in thrall to all this doggerel and these lies I know you’ll always think you’re right with God and Middle England on your side She reads of single mothers and their scrounging off the state Left wing councils wasting millions, let’s just leave them to their fate Asylum seekers coming here in search of streets of gold Let’s send them back where they belong, even if they’re sick and old No good idlers signing on and working cash in hand Destroy the black economy, let’s practice zero tolerance The world you see is rational, you get what you deserve Let’s praise the rich and powerful and save our hatred for the feckless poor Focus groups and think tanks and the blinded and the bland The bull-barred middle classes drive triumphant up and down this land Politics dictated by the don’t knows and don’t cares Ignorance is now a virtue, the guiding principle of our affairs
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Welcome to the Hatred Zone News of human misery Flickers on your T.V. screen The endless stream of refugees Registers your sympathy Someone, somewhere, suffering Somehow something must be done But you will never give them sanctuary Welcome to the hatred zone An attitude to call our own Come on down and sell your soul Bigotry – the new rock and roll With xenophobes and misanthropes The racists and the monoglots Let’s all hold on to what we’ve got And slam all the open doors shut Fevered minds write shock headlines To sour the milk of human kind Pictures tell of thousands dead While the papers say we’re under threat These pillars of society Protectors of morality Won’t recognise their own hypocrisy Thousand years of history And what it means to you and me Let’s congregate and celebrate The glories of our nation state We boast of our sincerity A beacon of integrity What ever happened to fair play?
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Barfly 02:22
Barfly Every night he sits alone In a shabby down-town bar He watches people come and go And never says a word Every night he drinks as if Today will be his last The only time his world looks good Is through an empty glass He sits and listens as the beer-guts Talk about their lived They’d rather piss their money away Than spend time with their wives Impotent and powerless They all bemoan their fate Thirty years of marriage And it ends in mutual hate He watches all the likely lads Who come up from the sticks Every Friday night they come And drink until they’re sick They only like the things they know They don’t want nothing new Small-town boys with small-town minds They haven’t got a clue At closing-time the streets are filled With all the rival gangs They square up for the usual fight As police arrive in vans He doesn’t even look back As he sets off through the rain Today has been no different And tomorrow will be the same

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released August 20, 2014

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Slow Faction London, UK

“Slow Faction is a 1st generation-influenced punk band with a real London 77 sound. The aim of Slow Faction is simple – to make the music they want to hear; politically-charged songs with big hooks and choruses, reminiscent of the 1st wave of British punk. Slow Faction’s live sound has been described as a cross between The Clash and The Buzzcocks.” ... more

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