The Digerati Soundbite Artillery
	Don't Change The Calendar Everything You Know Is Wrong Science Is Everything
	We Are Youth Bass And Bombs This Could Be Anywhere
	Don't Change The Calendar The Inequality Of Now The Start Of The End Of The World
	Science Is Everything Everything You Know Is Wrong The New Empire (and how to undermine it)

The Digerati Back to top

Get down! It’s the digital frontier
Get back, as the horizon disappears
Are we just the electronic herd?
Scraping genies out of dirty bottles

You’re a natural
You’re a natural
You’re a natural disaster

And the Digerati rule us now
In the age of electronic crowns
And it’s not a language I know
That’s changing the world that I know, I know
And the Digerati won’t let go
‘Til they’ve got your money and I told you so
And the advertising gets behind our eyelids, yeah

A thousand years we have waited for
But who the bloody hell has told the poor?
I don’t think we’ve got control
Get your jedis to fight your battles for you

...And the Digerati won’t let go
‘Til they’ve got your money and I told you so
And the advertising gets behind – oh, it’s everywhere I look now!

There are no new systems

Soundbite Artillery Back to top

There’s a sound on the street
It’s a sound that you know
It’s a sound that you’ve seen it heard it said it before

And it’s something we don’t need
But make way for the soundbite artillery

It’s not about how you say it
It’s all about what you say
And every time you blindly agree, you’re just another part of the soundbite artillery

It’s the sound of the street, with the style of the military
And they’re selling all the lies they think we need
They put panic on the streets
So make way for the soundbite artillery

It’s not about how you say it
It’s all about what you say
And every time you blindly agree, you’re just another part of the soundbite artillery

It’s not about how you say it
You're postmodern, conviction well you wouldn't know
And every time you blindly agree, you’re just another part of the soundbite artillery


Don't Change The Calendar
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Well now this is about a catastrophe, this is about hypocrisy
And I know nothing here works now, especially you and your fake democracy

'Cos they're dropping the levels of literacy, to cover the urgency
And with their private armies and daddy's profits, they're gonna make us know
They're gonna make us know that god is good

But don't change the calendar...
Don't forget now, don't forget now
Sometimes people die and it's just history

Well yeah this is about a catastrophe, this is about pornography
And I know nothing here works now, especially you and your cheap technology

'Cos there's plenty of arrogance, this I know
But we're just trying to keep up with you
We're against the plastic intimacy and the illegitimacy
They think their dead are saints now, and ours are just photogenic, yeah

So don't bother to change the calendar

You know what we're fighting
It's a year that starts in September
And I don't want to live in a world that starts and ends in America

You know what we're fighting
It's a year that starts in September
And I don't want to live in a world where the cash flows back to America



Everything You Know Is Wrong
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Don't stop the debate, I know you want to cover the agenda
With your forever lies, you want to perpetuate everything
Well it's the space age, just without any space
And it's the rat race, we're promoting hate
And the petrol bombs are fuelled by the satellite TV

You can't save a nation, with it - or from it
You can't save a nation now

Everything you know is wrong, there's control in the airwaves
Throw your TV on the fire
Now's the time for us to find out who's controlling the airwaves
So we can execute the lies

Even with lies on both sides, I still know that some things are right
And nothing's right here, I don't want to perpetuate anything!
So it's the space age, just without any space
And it's the rat race, we're promoting hate
And the truth it dies, with news on the satellite TV

...Now's the time for us to try and take back control of the air raids
So we can stop them taking lives

Do you know
My satellite
What passes through
My satellite



Science Is Everything
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I don't mean to call you superstitious
But face facts you don't know a thing about the human body
Or how the world works, come on
You don't know a thing about sociology
Well isn't is possible the world's more complicated than it seems
A series of 0s and 1s I think

Cos I don't know the science of everything
But I know that it's out there
Cos I know that science is everything
How else does everything work?...

So please, come and see that the first step is letting go
and knowing that we are ignorant
Don't be so arrogant, shut up
and realise we're not that important
Well isn't it possible the world's more complicated than it seems
A series of 0s and 1s I think

We're guided by our mythology
We're guided by the lies
We're blinded by our stupidity
We're guided by the lies

We Are Youth Back to top

I've felt the turning power of fear being driven into me
How quickly you destroy something you don't understand
But I don't want to be locked up safe at home
With cameras all around making sure I'm not alone

These three years have seemed like a lifetime
And these bricks have turned on me
It’s the generations of a segregated society

This town needs a shot of confidence
A break from the fear
So look the cameras in the eye and give them a message
that is loud and clear

There are many things that I will never comprehend
It would be so easy to feel threatened
But with my future, that I know is in my hands
I'll do my best to understand

We are youth today
We are the ones with ideas, and determination
We are unafraid, and we've got the guts to make you change
So damn us if we fail to make history

Bass & Bombs Back to top

Well I bet that when you’re out there on the dance floor
You must feel like the size of war
Cos there’s nothing between the ghetto and the billionaire
But you say nothing, so what happens on the dance floor?

They pretend victory, they pretend make believe
They pretend victory, they pretend
And we’re dropping the bass and bombs…

With the disco beats up high
And the made-up girls under electric lights
With helicopters in the sky
And the plastic warzones you don’t recognise
With the disco beats up high

This party is the whole world
With the tourists and soldiers side by side
So get down in the police raid!
We’re the refugees tonight, but here’s nowhere to run
From the riches and disaster in the whole world
And we’re passing each other by
So with police protection
We go dancing in the warzone, dancing in the warzone now

Well I bet that when you’re out there on the dance floor
You must be as ugly as the sight of war
Because you’re as cool as the ghetto
but you don’t live there
And we fake everything when we’re out on the dance floor

...With the disco beats up high
And the plastic girls that you don’t recognise
With helicopters in the sky
And the made-up warzones under electric lights
With the disco beats up high
This time I wanna know

This Could Be Anywhere Back to top

I’m not a coward, but there’s too many corpses in this town
They look like us, but they laugh like high-heeled hyenas
I’ve just got to keep on breathing, but I don’t know if I can face them on the street again
I don’t want to die in a hole like this, but I can’t keep running away

But from the bars and pubs and sniffing stuff, you’re aching for a change
This town is what is keeping you deranged
But there’s no use running away, from the fashions that don’t change
When every town looks the same

This could be anywhere
The yellow bricks have taken over this town with a ferocity
This could be anywhere
Nothing ever happens here, and there’s no generosity
This could be anywhere
You could blow it up and civilisation wouldn’t notice
If I can’t run away
I’m going to make this town feel like it’s somewhere

The same films, the same frowns, the same companies that are making my money
But it’s the same anywhere, and the battleground is everywhere

Don’t you know how it feels to live nowhere
I bet you know how it feels to live nowhere
I’m going to try and make this town feel like somewhere.

The Inequality Of Now Back to top

Yeah this is a system
And yeah this is a program
This is a system that protects itself
And it has done, for all these years

The money’s disappearing upwards
The money’s disappearing upwards
And you are disappearing downwards

Can you see what’s going on? I can see it all now with my eyes
It doesn’t take a genius to realise something’s going on now…

I’d escape to anywhere
But ignorance is everywhere
The only thing that I fear now
The inequality of now

Yeah, and I can’t help but watch this fall apart
‘Cos as your reputation goes you’re falling down
And I can’t help but watch this fall apart
Because as every nation knows, you’re falling down

The money’s disappearing upwards
But we’re not disappearing downwards
And we will drag history forwards!

The Start Of The End Of The World Back to top

If we can't trust each other now (it's the end of the world)
If we can't love each other now (it's the end of the world)
If we can't come together now (it's the end of the world)
If we can't trust each other now (it's the end of the world)

I don't know what you think
You don't know how I feel
So let's be honest before this war's real
I don't know what you feel
You don't know how I think
So you can see there's another war coming

All I ever wanted was your trust, and I need it now
All I ever needed was your trust, and I need it now

We - won't - let - you - destroy - everything

I don't know what you think
You don't know how I feel
So let's be honest before this war's real
I don't know what you feel
You don't know how I think
So you can see there's another war coming

It's just the start of the end of the world.

The New Empire (and how to undermine it) Back to top

...And now, we’re witness to the final scenes of our destruction
With all these false pleasures to take you away (from the real world now)
And it’s an outrage
With these promises swept away by a landslide
We need to change or we will never survive...


You need to find out
and care about
where your money goes

You need to find out
and care about
where your money goes