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Turn off the Electricity

by matt powell

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freaks 02:46
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Turn off the Electricity 03:56
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Outside - strong winds are blowing but inside - nothing's going No light - nothing to turn on as we shelter from the storm No heat - No power A warm fridge - the milk'll go sour lightning flashes illuminates the sky like the twinkle of an eye And do we know what we been missing while we've been living off what we keep pissing away Turn off the electricity try out a new reality Take a look and see what its gonna be like in a future where we've bled the oil dry Ay ay ay Turn off the Electricity wake up the creativity that's laying dormant in your sleeping mind come on and give it a try Turn off the electricity (x2) And its hard to see just where to begin while we're all still just pissing into the wind (Flick the switch, and nothing turns on then it hits me - like a bomb The clothes that i'm wearing - how do they make it? The bread i eat - how do they cook it? Look, i don't know how to do anything with my hands How to build? How to sew? How to grow food? How to survive In nature but i feel my heart yearn Maybe its time I started to learn) And do we know what we'll be missing while we keep sucking up what we've been pissing away Chorus
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Aboriginal Land 03:54
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This is indigenous land that you're standing on you are standing on aboriginal land before the white man - aboriginal people indigenous people - aboriginal land Now, i'm a white person and i'm a man as well and i make a good living i own a house i can sell yeah but its not so easy to be a happy white man when the house that you own is built on aboriginal land this is indigenous land that i'm living on we are living on aboriginal land before the white man - aboriginal people a beautiful people of a beautiful land yeah i'm a white man and i'm australian and cause i'm not an aboriginal i ts hard for me to talk yeah but i know in my heart what's right and what we're doing is wrong hear what they're saying listen to their song this is indigenous land that was stolen you are standing upon stolen land we gotta make treaty - you gotta listen to understand people of australia - this is aboriginal land
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God bless you Jesus! 01:47
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work 02:12
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Death to the LEADER 02:19
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SO LONG LEADER WE DON'T REALLY NEED YA CHOP HIS HEAD OFF STICK IT ON A PIKE and like the hide of a flea i'm gonna flick you off of me now the peop;le of the planet can unite oh oh yes sir, damn, there's a hole in the can and how will we stem the tide well god knows but if we start to conceive of something much higher in ourselves maybe there'll come a time when we make our own decisions and baby we'll get 'em right then we might see the light DEATH TO THE LEADER GEE ITS GREAT TO MEET YA CHOP HIS HEAD OFF STICK IT ON A PIKE AND LIKE AN OLD FOOTY WE WILL KICK IT ROUND THE STREETS AND WE'LL LEAVE IT IN THE GUTTER LEAVE IT IN THE GUTTER OVER NIGHT oh hang on Hey Dalai Lama - you're a big banana take your head and stick it up your bum hmmm, but its a pretty big head so i'm figuring instead that we'll chop it off and show it to your mum oh yeah DEATH TO THE LEADER OOH WE GOT A BLEEDER CHOP HIS HEAD OFF STICK IT ON A PIKE AND NOW AT LAST WE'RE FREE NOW ITS UP TO YOU AND ME RIGHT NOW THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET MUST UNITE!
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human life 05:26
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Heed the rising tide 03:29
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Pray to the Sun 04:29
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Fuel up on Love 04:00
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god walks by your side 03:35
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Pretending to be a Man 02:37
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Well i've been watching porn in fast forward and i've been smoking dope on the lam but i can chop wood and look good for the ladies but i'm pretending to be a man
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winners 03:51
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What do the kids all say? well they wanna play - everyday and what are those grown-ups on when they say they're afraid of a setting sun man i could never be one of them hey did you hear the sign i saw on the way to here? yeah my friend its really clear yeah there's something wrong and when they say that life is for the winners its when i notice that your game is just a bore and i don't wanna play it no more hey what can i say? you've already won and what do the children feel when it gets surreal when the demon screen says 'whos in here is whats out there' kids you don't have to be one of them Hey can you feel that sign? well i'm smelling it everywhere and yeah you do belong and when they say that life is for the winners its when i notice that your game is just a bore and i don't wanna play it no more hey what can i say? you've already won. so come on. there's a lot of work thats got to be done.

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released October 23, 2013

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