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Keep On Pushing Back
03:18
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You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
They keep on pushing coal
They keep on pushing oil
They keep on pushing gas
They keep on pushing clean coal
They keep on pushing jobs
They keep on pushing nuclear
They keep on pushing costs
They keep on pushing careers
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
They keep on pushing laws
They keep on pushing MPs
They keep on pushing bills
They keep on pushing lobbies
They keep on pushing lies
They keep on pushing greenwash
They keep on pushing stats
They keep on pushing hogwash
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing
You've just gotta have some hope, keep on pushing back
They keep on pushing mines
They keep on pushing train lines
They keep on pushing plants
They keep on pushing deadlines
They keep on pushing time
They keep on pushing limits
They keep on pushing blah
They keep on pushing bullshit
They keep on pushing coal
They keep on pushing oil
They keep on pushing gas
They keep on pushing clean coal
They keep on pushing jobs
They keep on pushing nuclear
They keep on pushing costs
They keep on pushing careers
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And now, a message from the Murdoch media...
I just wanna go somewhere on my holidays
Fly anywhere I like on my holidays
And I just wanna eat what fucking tastes good
Eat anything I like if it tastes good
I just wanna drive a fucking decent car
None of that electric shit fucking fake car
I don't want greenies taking over my life
Don't want no green left bullshit in my life
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
I just wanna make a decent bit of money
Don't want them taking away my fucking money
I just wanna make a decent fucking living
Take away our jobs and no one is living
I don't want a wind farm in my fucking back yard
Why don't you put it in your own back yard?
Next thing we're all gonna be in fucking hair shirts
Beating ourselves up in fucking hair shirts
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
I don't give a fucking fuck about polar bears
Who the fuck gives a fuck about polar bears?
Don't even try to make me go vegan
Nobody needs to go fucking vegan
Coal creates jobs and gas creates more jobs
What do you want here - no fucking real jobs?
Coal is lifting people out of poverty
Do you really want them staying in poverty?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
So the world keeps getting hotter
No one gives a fuck
So the world keeps getting hotter
Does anyone give a fuck?
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They're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
And they're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
We're doing all we can
The best since we began
To talk about it anyway
We're holding conferences
To make make some kind of sense
Of how we're gonna break away
They're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
And they're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
It's all gonna be OK
Your fears can be allayed
Technology is on the way
It'll be all right
No need to get uptight
The market's gonna find a way
They're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
And they're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
Nuclear's on the way
Don't worry about the waste
Everybody's seeing the way
Carbon trades are real
A perfect market deal
Everybody loves a trade
They're lying to us again
They're lying to us again
They're lying to us again
They're lying to us again
They say leave it to us
No need to create a fuss
You protesters can go away
They say they've got a fix
They won't be fixing it
You can't believe a word they say
They're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
And they're lying to us in every way
And they're lying to us again
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I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to leave the Earth this way
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to let it burn away
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to leave the Earth this way
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to let it burn away
You say you don't want to think about it
Because it's too depressing
Even though it's the main thing
That needs addressing
I ask what you think about Greta
And what she's doing for the world
You say she seems like a weirdo
A bit of a freak for a schoolgirl
I say don't you want to do something like that
To change the world for the better
But I'm thinking: What are you doing, dad?
Who are you to be piling on pressure?
Sure, I protest, go to rallies
Write and rage against the machine
But in the end it's all folly
I'm just another cog in the machine
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to leave the Earth this way
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to let it burn away
They say individuals can do very little
Most of the damage is caused by companies
My actions cause barely a ripple
While the polluters take all the money
What's the good of buying green light bulbs
Skipping the car and riding a bike
When billionaires are getting green laws pulled
So they can carry on doing what they like?
And how does me trying to save water
Have any kind of effect
When it's industrial users that ought to
Be the ones they keep in check?
I might do voluntary work, write these lyrics
Try to change some people's minds
But when you're facing a world of cynics
It feels like a huge waste of time
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to leave the Earth this way
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to let it burn away
There's hope, I know you're on the right path
When I ask what you want to be
You say you're going to use your gift for maths
Be a passive architect, solar engineer
It's the hope that we all have
That our kids will do it better
But time's not something that they have
We've got to stop being the wreckers
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to leave the Earth this way
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to let it burn away
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Twenty eight degrees
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Thirty eight degrees
I used to really love the heat, I loved it
Would go out in it any chance I got
I'd take the train for hours on end to catch it
Just to get from really warm to hot
The day arrived when I came to regret it
I got the train somewhere I'd never been
I rode into a forest just to check it
Saw the bats were falling out of trees
Headed off into a store to cool down
Had to stick my head in the freezer
That day the nightly news gave me the lowdown
The hottest place on earth was where I'd been
Twenty six degrees
Twenty seven degrees
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Twenty nine degrees
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We'd go out in the sun
Yeah always having fun
But then the thought always lingered
How long will this last
Till it comes undone?
When you were 10 years old
The morning sun turned gold
And then the skies all turned black as the people fled from fires burning uncontrolled
I wanna be in this place forever
Please make it last, let's fight together
I wanna be in this place forever
Please make it last, let's fight together
We went down to the beach
We got into the sea
But then the smoke blocked the sun and the temperature dropped by 20 degrees
I thought then: This is it
The end of innocence
A halted childhood cos there were only nine normal summers till the fires kicked in
I wanna be in this place forever
Please make it last, let's pull together
I wanna be in this place forever
Please make it last, let's pull together
And now we're getting floods
Just like they said we would
The politicians act surprised but they're never gonna do what science says they should
As I watch you grow up
I'm wondering what's up
With all the things that you see happening to this world as it gets fucked up
I wanna be in this place forever
Let's make it last, we've got to save it
I wanna be in this place forever
Let's make it last, we've got to save it
I wanna be in this place forever
Let's make it last, we've got to save it
I wanna be in this place forever
Let's make it last, we've got to save it
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Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Now they say that time's really running out
All these vested interests seeding doubt
If you thirst for knowledge, you'll find a drought
We've got just a few years to sort it out
Or it could be our time's run out
The tipping point could have come about
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Parts per million are gathering pace
Methane's leaking all over the place
Fires and floods are commonplace
Half the world is caught in a blind rat race
Bosses are trying to keep a straight face
While they destroy the human race
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Climate refugees are trying to flee
Looking for a place somewhere to be
Anywhere that's safe for a family
Rich countries will try to turn them back
Not a hope in hell if their skin is black
Cos there ain't no black in the union jack
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
What's it gonna look like for you and me?
Are we gonna be able to be
Living safe like the bourgeoisie?
Or is the divide going to widen still?
Inequality, you know the drill
There's only one class not getting killed
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
Will you be with me at the end of the world?
Will you?
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8. |
Fight On
03:20
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You say it's all gone
No point trying
To get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Come on
You say it's all dead
Or dying
Can't get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Fight on
Coral bleaching
It's looking hopeless
Killed off most of the Barrier Reef
Politicians
Ignore the warnings
Spreading climate disbelief
But there's people
Fighting back now
Trying to stop the corrupt lies
Fighting back like
There's no tomorrow
So the whole reef doesn't die
You say it's all gone
No point trying
To get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Come on
You say it's all dead
Or dying
Can't get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Fight on
Dried up rivers
They're looking hopeless
Irrigators taking it all
Stealing water like
There's no tomorrow
People downstream get fuck all
But there's people
Fighting back now
First nations going hard
They fight like
There's no tomorrow
They're the ones to put in charge
You say it's all gone
No point trying
To get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Come on
You say it's all dead
Or dying
Can't get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Fight on
Species loss
It's looking hopeless
Every week another one gone
Killing nature like
There's no tomorrow
Trying to bring the apocalypse on
But there's people
Fighting back now
Warning of the whole collapse
Educating like
There's no tomorrow
Hitting liars with the facts
Coal seam gas now
It's looking hopeless
Wrecking water and farmland
Poisoning like
There's no tomorrow
Corrupt money changing hands
But there's people
Fighting back now
Hitting back to get them banned
Locking gates like
There's no tomorrow
Chasing them right off the land
You say it's all gone
No point trying
To get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Come on
You say it's all dead
Or dying
Can't get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Fight on
You say it's all gone
No point trying
To get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Come on
You say it's all dead
Or dying
Can't get it all back
It's gone
But we gotta fight back
Keep on trying
To get it all back
Fight on
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What kind of world are you passing on?
What will your grandkids think of you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
Do you think they'll forgive you?
Enforce law
That's what your job is
Can't redraw
What being a cop is
Just trying
To follow orders
Providing
True law and order
Doing your best
To lay the law down
No protests
Disrupting your town
That can mean
Some people get bashed
Trapped between
Tasers and tear gas
What kind of world are you passing on?
What will your grandkids think of you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
Do you think they'll forgive you?
You sit on a board
Answer to investors
All above board
Rarely contested
Raking it in
Share price is healthy
It's no sin
Investors are wealthy
What's the cost?
Death and pollution
Can't be stopped
There's no solution
Blot it out
Try not to think of it
There's no doubt
You know who's affected
What kind of world are you passing on?
What will your grandkids think of you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
Do you think they'll forgive you?
Been elected
To represent people
Respected
In all the right circles
Got ideals
That you still hold dear
Just made deals
On your way up here
Got to pay
All those people back
Got no say
In all that payback
If that means
Breaking some promises
That's just what
The cost of high office is
What kind of world are you passing on?
What will your grandkids think of you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
Do you think they'll forgive you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
What will your grandkids think of you?
What kind of world are you passing on?
Do you think they'll forgive you?
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10. |
Where Did That Home Go?
03:20
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Where did those cliffs go?
How did those waves flow?
Where did that home go
That used to stand here so strong?
It'd never happen that's what they said
The seas weren't gonna rise
It'd never happen that's what they said
There were no problems up ahead
No need to compromise
There were no problems up ahead
Where did those cliffs go?
How did those waves flow?
Where did that home go
That used to stand here so strong?
Islanders copped it first of all
Saltwater destroying crops
Islanders copped it first of all
Western leaders watched it all
Cracked jokes but got eavesdropped
Western leaders watched it all
Where did those cliffs go?
How did those waves flow?
Where did that home go
That used to stand here so strong?
Then it lapped at their own doors
No joke when it hits home
Then it lapped at their own doors
The truth came crashing into shore
No joke when it hits home
The truth came crashing into shore
Where did those cliffs go?
How did those waves flow?
Where did that home go
That used to stand here so strong?
That's what happens in climate wars
No joke when it hits home
That's what happens in climate wars
That's what happens in climate wars
No joke when it hits home
That's what happens in climate wars
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Mat Ward Australia
Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more
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