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    “When the truth walks away, everybody stays 'cuz the truth about the world is that crime does pay. So if you walk away, who is gonna stay? 'Cuz I like to think the world is a better place.”

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      To add to your punk rock reference :)

      The power is in the hands of the few
      There are too many homeless too many starving
      They don’t care they don’t listen
      Their profit is more important than our pain
      Than our oppression than our human rights
      Sure take from the rich and give to the poor
      But when will the greed stop when will the human rights
      Be of some importance
      They can have their money and their system
      We can’t have freedom with restrictions
      We can’t have freedom and equity with an entire
      System based on competition

      Defiance - Hands of the Few, 1995. This shit ain’t new.

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      Underrated Offspring jam! I feel like Offspring get written off as pop-punk but are generally underrated as political artists.

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        Listening to that album nowadays is hair-raising. It’s almost as though people have been screaming in Americans faces for decades about what’s becoming impossible to ignore, I know I was singing these lyrics since 1999:

        "Well, I’d like to tell you all about my dream

        It’s a place where strip malls abound

        And diversion’s mere moments away

        Where culture’s defined by the ones least refined

        And you’ll be left behind if you don’t fit in

        It’s all distorted in Americana my way

        Well, fuck you

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

        Now give me my cable, fast food

        Four-by’s, tat’s right away

        I want it right now 'cause

        My ge-generation don’t like to wait

        My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin

        It’s quite an excursion but it’s okay

        Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

        Well, fuck you

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

        Yeah, it’s all coming true

        I’m a product of my environment

        So don’t blame me, I just work here

        But I wanna fuck it up

        My rights are denied by those least qualified

        Trading profit for pride but it’s, it’s okay

        Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

        Well, fuck you

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

        Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

        Yeah, it’s all coming true

        Yeah, it’s all coming true"