Enter Shikari : Common Dreads

Electro Metal / United-Kingdom
(2009 - Ambush Reality)
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1. COMMON DREADS

A heedless and harrowing future is developing
For our generation and generations to come.

But as I walk the chartered streets of this familiar oblivion,
I recognise nothing but unyielding unconsciousness;
in which we have almost comfortably drowned.

It is madness
this normality is madness!

We are clinging to manufactured crippling constraints...

We must no longer commute
Between brand laden homes
And quickly accepted, aimless roams
From our factories of slavery
To wars of illusive bravery

We must unite

And we must let the flood gates open

Here tonight, I clock a thousand heads
Here to unite, through common dreads


2. SOLIDARITY

OH!
Here tonight I clock a thousand heads
Here to unite, through common dreads

So who’s with me?
OH!
Now who’s with me?
OH!

Something trips inside
That’s been dormant for a thousand years
Now we can no longer hide
The immediacy of these fears

Our names will not be writ on water
And we don’t need an ark
NO WAY!
One day I know the dam will collapse
and we will be the current!

Yes!
What you got for me?
OH!

And Now The Flood Gates Will Open!
RAHH!

You cannot hold back the tide
You cannot hold back the tide

We will sing as one in solidarity
We will swim together
No longer treading water
We’re flowing with the tide
And you can taste the light
Don’t waste the light
We will sing as one in solidarity
We will sing together

And now
And still we will be here, standing like statues!
Yeah!
The time is now
Belt it brothers

(We will sing as one in solidarity,
we will sing together)
(And still we will be here standing like statues)
(We're not worthy)


3.STEP UP

Come!

If our own lives aren't directly affected,
then it don't need to be corrected
How fucking cute is our ignorance?
Yeah, we're insidious
as they're praying for deliverance
We shelter ourselves from the outcries
We blinker ourselves from the eyesores
But I know
WE HAVE GREATNESS WITHIN US

"We have greatness within us; innovative, giving, determined -
it's time for the best in us to come out"

SEARCH and you can find imbalance
SEEK you can destroy imbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today

Yes, solid

Now let me get one thing straight
You know what?
Sometimes I do wish apples were our currency
so your hoarded millions would rot in their vault
then that'd teach you to lay off the assault
that you're barraging on the lands of the poor
And I know we've all got enough problems of our own
But-but they're not show stoppers as we sit on our throne
in a home heated by a life unknown to the exploited

And it's so frustrating;
The fucking state we're in!

If our own lives aren't directly affected,
then it does need to be corrected
How fucking cute is our ignorance?
Yeah, we're insidious
as they're praying for deliverance
We shelter ourselves from the outcries
We blinker ourselves from the eyesores

SEARCH and you can find imbalance
SEEK you can destroy imbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today

SEARCH and you can find imbalance
SEEK you can destroy imbalance
And you can change your values
(Step up today) Step up today

"Why is it so many companies built to serve us
end up ruling us?
Our British empire built free-trade
opportunistic oppression?"


4. JUGGERNAUTS

And I know that we've still got time
But I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign
'Cos I do not think we're invincible

Crushing all in it's path [x4]

Now don't get me wrong I love what you've done with the place
I just wish we had a chance to help build it
Instead of just moving into this home of disrepair
And expected to work, prosper and then share.
Constantly relying on consuming to feel content
But only because we've lost touch with this home that we've spent
Trillions of dollars tainting for our wants, not our needs
And now we're growing tired of planting bleary-eyed seeds.

And I'm not saying that we could do better
But given the chance we'd try (we'd try)
We'd dig up the earths timeworn soil
And fill the trench with greedy eyes.
[x2]

Imagine...

"Back in the day as empires made haste
To colonize, to claim, to control and contain.
We sat patiently in the future, helpless."

Switch.

And I know that we've still got time
But I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign
Deep breaths clench fists
Here comes another Juggernaut!

Crushing all in it's path [x4]

What the hell will happen now?
I really don't know man!
We'll do what we've always done?
Shut our eyes and hope for the best?
NO! We're gonna face this
We'll step out onto the tracks
And stare it right in the face
THOU SHALL NOT PASS!

And I know that we've still got time
But I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign
'Cos I do not think we're invincible

Crushing all in it's path [x4]

And I know that we've still got time
But I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign
Deep breaths clench fists
Here comes another Juggernaut!

And I know that we've still got time
But I do not think we're invincible
And I'm thinking that it's a sign
And I do not think we're invincible
And I hope that we've still got time
'Cos I do not think we're invincible
The idea of community
Will be something displayed at a museum


5. WALL

I'm gonna paste you up, cover you in wallpaper
Screw shelves into you and call you a wall
That's all you are to me, trying to keep people inside
Inside your sordid little house
This is no white abode
You can have skirting board shoes and plug sockets on your knees
I'll hang a painting on your lip
And put tinsel 'round it at Christmas

Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house
Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house

You can't keep us inside much longer pal
We've seen the view from the window...
You can't keep us inside much longer pal
We've seen the view from the window...

It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the tide?
(We'll sing all night) We need cohesion
It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the tide?
(We'll sing all night) We need cohesion

As time keeps moving, we keep loosing
Our rights freedom is not the choices
between what job and what car
You can just look back into history
To find corruption and mystery
And if we don't take note, we'll wake up in the same boat

Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house
Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house

It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the tide?
(We'll sing all night) We need cohesion
It's glorious outside (Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the tide?
(We'll sing all night) We need cohesion
(Have you seen the time?)
Have you seen the tide?

Grit ya teeth then break the glass
Now sprint and don't look back
Full pelt in to the dense forest
And ask him
What's your thoughts on lionizing?
What's your thoughts on the tensions rising?
Deep in the dense forest

Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house
Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house
Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house
Trying to keep people inside, inside your sordid little house


6. ZZZONKED

Mate! I'm zonked absolutely spent,
I think I'm gonna give up my eyes for lent,
I'll use my sockets to stock stones instead,
And with an icy cold stare, I'll hide bones in your bed.

Mate! Please accept this invitation,
So I can take you away.

'Cause there's a one in 40 thousand chance that
Asteroid Apophis will collide with the earth,
In less than 20 years (OH MY GOOODDD)

Roll up for the knees up business,
Yes, yes, yes, ok, I think we've heard quite enough from you,

Instead of staring at your Stella desperately for inspiration,
Belt up and quiver at your indignation,
I ain't saying anything that could be construed as an apology,
There's another case study of anthropology,
Let's announce embargos and denounce our far foes,
Ingrowing egos a syntax he knows,
It's just distance that separates us,
Or are we really all ethno-centric-ally inclined?

Mate! What the fuck are you going on about?

This is a draconian law I protest,
I protest,
The herd is rowdy,
The squad is vexed.


7. HAVOC A

The Lions are at the door
We ain't taking orders from snakes no more

The Lions are at the door, yeah
We ain't taking orders from snakes no more

Knock, Knock!

Yeah! How'd you like that boy?

It's another day in the Acid Nation


8. NO SLEEP TONIGHT

And I'm thinking what's the deal?
With the facts that they conceal.
And I'm thinking what's the harm
In a bit of rhetoric and charm

And I can't quite comprehend
A beginning or an end
No I can't quite stomach this
Now

You and me, we're gonna take
To the skies for common sake
We'll fly amongst the cirrus clouds
Twenty-thousand feet we'll clock the crowds
And from that height we'll leak the lies
And unveil the damaged skies
Cause we can't quite stomach this

(All I'm trying to say is)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight

The sun and the sea could power us
No-longer cower in oil lust
Chernobyl is still a stain
Of the dangers of this game
I still can't quite comprehend
A beginning or an end
No I can't quite stomach this

(All I'm trying to say is)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight

We'll embark on our great voyage to sun
And we'll be 90 million miles from anything or anyone

What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?

YEAH!

(All I'm trying to say is)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight

We'll embark on our great voyage to sun
And we'll be 90 million miles from anything or anyone

Just like the ocean we wont be pacific anymore
No longer in coexistence with other species, this is flawed

You're not, getting any sleep tonight
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight
(Getting any sleep, Getting any sleep)
You're not, getting any sleep tonight


9. GAP IN THE FENCE

I lie here
Staring up at the stratosphere
And hoping we're gonna get out of here

And it seems mad
That we're born on the doorstep
Of squalor and of pedestals

And I lie here
Surrounded by a range
Of general anesthetics

To drowse the fact that funding in 'security'
Is not matched by spreading equality

(You'll hear us singing...)
In the sunlight where you caught us,
Plotting the downfall of hoarders
In the sunlight where you caught us

(You'll hear us singing...)
In the sunlight where you caught us,
Plotting the downfall of hoarders
In the sunlight where you caught us

It seems that every gap in the fence
We'll peak, we'll scratch, we'll stretch, we'll grab anything we can

But if we grouped together
And made a bigger hole
Not just for our children's hands
But for bigger plans

Yeah if we grouped together
And made a hole
'cause I don't know about you
But I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here

I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
Woah

Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh

I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here
I've gotta get out of here

Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh-oh

We live so subserviently
Accepting all normality
Drenched with routine
Doused in the foreseen
And yes, granted we do prosper.
But the fact that we prosper
Is even taken for granted.


10. HAVOC B

Now let's cause some fucking havoc!

The lions are at the door,
We ain't taking order from snakes no more.
The lions are at the door, yeah!
We ain't taking order from snakes no more.

Stand by...
Receiving...
stand by for a second message.

Now we're gonna take a stand,
For we are the Grassroots Resistance!
Now we're gonna take a stand,
For we are the Grassroots Resistance!
Power!

All this killing is obscene!
Shut down the war machine!


11. ANTWERPEN

Now I was feeling like a total giant!
But now it feels like Silvius Brabo has sliced my hand off
and thrown it in the river!

Now I was just doing my job,
my feet sink into the bed of the Scheldt
but now my fingers are reeling about with the fishes

I know I'm not making any sense
(no you're not)
all will be revealed
(well I hope so)
all will be revealed if we travel
back in time

I've got to rest, it's for the best.
To build a nest, to take the quest.
To be given just one chance, to be
the best.

Go forth and re-colonize.

It appears the foundations
of all our great nations
are lies and indoctrinations.
So if Silvius Brabo collects the hands of giants...
will you join him?


12.THE JESTER

"Simmer down ladies and gentlemen
you're acting rather irresponsibly"

Hold your horses, steady now,
'Cos we're floating precariously and therefor furthermore frivolously
On tectonic plates

And everything we stand on
And everything we stand for
is rather unstable right now

So I think I'll kill some time and have you done medium rare
But I think I'll tease my pallet with some crudités, just to prepare
You see we've had a joker in the pack now for quite some time
So I reckon it's just about time to roast this swine

Ahhh
This is a crock of shit I refuse to be fed!
So knuckle down and fetch his head
Can it sunshine, bottle it up you ponce
Then knock me up a dish with some vol-au-vents
Ha Ha!
Now I think we should take a leaf from the romans book (Throw it up, throw it up)
Now I think we should take a leaf from the romans book (Throw it up, throw it up)
Let's throw it up and then start again
Let's throw it up and then start again
Shoo!

Nicely does it now
Steady...
Hold...
Hold...
(target locked)
Cop a load of this one

Oi

That was great, my compliments to the chef, I'm very sat-is-fied
I'll be sure to dine here again, fine cuisine.
The stuffed cheeks were very agreeable,
all in all a splendid spread.


13. HALCYON (INTRO)

No lyrics


14. HECTIC

To the multi story car park
With our friends
drinking from a bottle
of white lightning
on top of marks and sparks
roof running
smoking
chronic
hectic!

And it seems that nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that we're on our own again
[x3]

We'll convene at mine 3PM to play
Sega Megadrive Golden Axe and Sonic all day
Never Played It? (I'll Teach Ya)
Can't Hack It? (I'll Beat Ya)
That's Pendell making rhymes in the corner with a litre
of the finest Scrumpy Jack,
Whilst PDEX pumps out the latest big club track
We'll chip it to Justin's and hit his King Kong
then we'll gather round the piano for a little sing song.


15. FANFARE FOR THE CONSCIOUS MAN

Each nation used to provide its country with security
with factories providing arms for their country
Now multinational companies compete in the arms trade
to serve any customer, maximising the money to be made

So just as farms compete to provide fruit for other countries
so people can live to enjoy the taste of nature
National warehouses compete to provide arms around the world
to aid death
and all hell unfurled.

Our gracious queen should grasp her crown
and take a good fucking swing at Blair and Brown
for leading her country into illegal warfare
and trying to pass it off that we're doing 'cause we care.

"Now preemptive wars are a redemptive cause"
I've never heard such nonsense under international laws
We think we have the right to enforce "democracy"
when we're weakening ours everyday; what a hypocrisy.

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

Fuck man
I just woke up to a land where killing is part of every day
and every mind in this intelligent species
is led blinded into the battlefield
like it's natural for us to break instead of build

Unity's intrinsic, the only cause worth fighting for,
all religions, colours and creeds

Now we are the world and we are the people
We are the world and we are the people
and we will be heard.

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this
We'll be together against this
We'll be forever against this

Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
the one that melts all fears from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransoms.

'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.

Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
the one that melts all fears from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransoms.

'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.

Oh those halcyon days and halcyon nights
Before we began to realise that things aren't right

And it seems that nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that we're on our own again
[x3]



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