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Cancel Freedom
04:27
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Don't you dare look down on me
You don't want to know about suffering
When I sing for a world that could be
You say that it's futile to change a thing
Sit back in your chair
With the apathy stare
And believe so strongly in nothing
You loved seeing The Clash in the 70s
But look what happened when you got yourself a mortgage and a family
If Strummer were making waves today
I'd no doubt hear you say
"That bloody do-gooder's a pinko and a commie"
It's "cancel culture" when you disagree
But if it aligns with you then it's "freedom of speech"
You won't be caught out by those deceptive mouths
But continue to smirk
At those languishing in the dirt
Oh this world is so complex
But your attention span's less than 5 minutes
All that education
Worldwide access to information
You've squandered it
On the mental gymnastics
Picking apart the semantics
Don't you dare look down on me
When I sing for a world that could be
Don't you dare look down on me
When that smug, stiff upper lip
Is wrapped around a polished boot tip
Deep in the sand
Screaming that we wanna cancel freedom
So long as you're on the winning tribe
Who cares about anyone's right to life
When you fall so short of seeking any truth
You pick out the lies most convenient to you
To perpetuate a brittle worldview
You have so little at stake
It's easy to pretend everyone else's problem is fake
Comprehending the facts
It seems is too much to ask
The sound bites relieve your fear
But it's so much more complicated than that
Why is it all you achieve
Are the tears of those who disagreed?
But when it comes your turn to cry
There'll be someone better off who laughs
Suck it up and get it by
Yet even as everything you've worked for goes down the drain
You'll still find people less fortunate than you to blame
How did you think that this world ever changed
If every person stepping up to make a difference were all the same?
Don't you dare look down on me
When I sing for a world that could be
Don't you dare look down on me
When that smug, stiff upper lip
Is wrapped around a polished boot tip
Deep in the sand
Screaming that we wanna cancel freedom
The billionaire you'll never be is the one true God
You're closer to the streets that you'll ever know
As you dismiss these politics as just for show
Won't you realize
When you screech "Don't politicise!"
It's just another excuse to throw the blinkers on your eyes…?
Bathe in that sweet cognitive dissonance
Buying into every manufactured culture war
Hiding behind your picket white fence
Spitting on everything you used to stand for
A world at your feet yet refusing to learn
As ordinary people are risking their lives
Watching two generations burn
Freedom is canceled: "I'm all right Jack, I've got mine"
Cancel freedom
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We Are Gathered
04:42
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We are gathered here today
To mourn the loss our dearly beloved
Recalling and cherishing your memory
And concealing and hiding the reality
Your closest betray the truth
And sugarcoat your tragedy
Insulting your legacy
With a faith-laden drapery
Your closest betray the truth
And lock away your suffering
Waxing fabrication
For the wretched congregation
We are gathered here today
To celebrate the joining of two families
Adoring and beholding two lovers
While ignoring and rejecting their choices
Your closest betray amor
For we worship a deity
Your love becomes secondary
In this superficial ceremony
Your closest betray the amor
And cram you into their world
Of such futile tradition
Respecting only religion
If your love holds any weight at all
You'd face up to any truth no matter if it
Shames or frustrates you
If your love is unconditional
You would crave to understand and sympathise
Not cover it with lies
So as you listen here today
To my stories of love misplaced
The same impulse guides those hands
That oppresses those in distant lands
That shames the daughters who want to chose
To love the one whose hearts they move
Sees them ousted and disowned
Beaten and left to die alone
The crowd dictates its narrow lies
To restrict how people live their lives
Moving mountains to shield themselves
Than protecting those in need of help
Is there a difference or disability?
You're inconvenient, a liabliity
Affection is meaningless if you will not see
A person as whole not just what you want them to be
If your love holds any weight at all
You'd face up to any truth no matter if it
Shames or frustrates you
If your love is unconditional
You would crave to understand and sympathise
Not cover it with lies
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cancelfreedominminecraft
04:35
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How could you look down on me?
When I sing for a world that could be
How could you look down on me?
Despite that strong, stiff upper lip
You just can't seem to get a grip
On what we're asking
No, I guess we want to cancel freedom...
Why is it all you achieve are the tears of those who disagreed?
Do you remember back in the 70s?
A single income could afford you both a mortgage and family
For those that ask for this today
I'd no doubt hear you say:
"Bloody millennials are feckless and they're lazy"
It's cancel culture when you disagree
But if it aligns with you then it's freedom of speech
You lap the puke out of those deceptive mouths
That continue to smirk at those languishing in the dirt
Oh this world is so complex
Your attention spans less than five minutes
All that education
Worldwide access to information
You've squandered it on the mental gymnastics
Picking apart the semantics
How could you look down on me?
When I sing for a world that could be
How could you look down on me?
I was taught a strong, stiff upper lip
But I've not yet seen the fruits of it
Chained to this desk
God it feels just like you cancelled freedom...
Declining wages
Rising house prices
The state of workers' rights is
Set to free fall
And here you are dismissing the idea that we deserve so much more
When I've forged this path by myself
A self-made man navigating this neoliberal hell
And yet when confronted with untold suffering
I'd never trot out a bankrupt old adage like "The world doesn't owe you anything"
You've ascended one rung up the ladder
Sneering down with derisive laughter
Waxing lyrical on liberty
To the millions in poverty
Halting progress is somehow a victory
If you're under the impression that we've reached the end of history
Keep losing the culture wars you invented
Manufacturing victimhood from your own irrelevance
Keep rationalising away the failures
That somehow the alternative would have been so much worse
Think of the ones who weren't so lucky
Left behind by every community
Working their fingers to the bone
Their future is written in stone
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Confyde Nottingham, UK
Confyde is a musical project led by singer songwriter Martin Jackson, blending a song driven melodic rock style with as many other genres as he can twist and bend to his will!
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