Conflict - These Colors Don't Run lyrics

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The factories still churning out<br />

Of that there's not a single doubt<br />

There's more snide shit from their flea pits<br />

They couldn't give a fucking shit.<br />

It's true, overdue, and plain to see,<br />

They say, we're standing firmly in the rain<br />

Simply waiting for it to stop they said,<br />

That we should build new umbrellas because we're<br />

Stuck in our own rut.<br />

I say, blow away the rain clouds,<br />

For the new horizon is crystal clear.<br />

It's took sometime, but we're on the right track<br />

Now where do we go from here?<br />

Sick and tored of worthless statements<br />

Pissed off with the same old songs<br />

You stuff your moral rule book<br />

Of what's allowed, what's right and wrong<br />

Oh yeah, there's those who only criticise yet offer<br />

Nothing new solutions? Ideas? No, just raked up shit<br />

What a clever thing to do<br />

We must strive on for what we know is right<br />

We know all too well there's no end in sight<br />

But human nature is still on our side as the politicians<br />

Fall into landslide we're out on the street, <br />

Feeling the beat of the heart's in anger at the upper crust<br />

Elite who don't hear us scream or beg for a halt or<br />

Their society aborts<br />

1981 President Reagan and the pope face assassins'<br />

Bullets and escape with their lives.<br />

But in Cairo Sadat dies in a hail of automatic fire<br />

From brixton to Belfast riots rage and fires burn.<br />

The royal wedding of Pronce Charles is celebrated.<br />

In America the skies roar as Columbia the first space<br />

Shuttle blasts off but as winter descends so does the<br />

Chilling news of martial law in Poland.<br />

1982 Argentina invades Falklands, Speilberg captures<br />

Our imaginations, unemployment rises above three million,<br />

Adn with threat of cruise missiles twenty<br />

Thousand women go to war to safe guard peace.<br />

Britain gets it's fourth T.V. station,<br />

Princess Diana gives us a royal heir.<br />

The I.R.A. bring horror to Hyde Park, Breshnev dies in<br />

Russia and Irael invades Lebanon.<br />

1983 As protesters get into their stride at Greenham<br />

Ronald Reagan promises to make Star Wars a frightening reality<br />

Back on earth the Soviets admit to shooting down a Korean airliner,<br />

Maggie Thatcher triumphs again and America's first <br />

Woman astronaut is in space;<br />

For Grenada it's an American invasion.<br />

1984 after twelve weeks the striking miners still <br />

Battle on and in Brighton the P.M. and cabinet narrowly<br />

Escape death as an I.R.A. bomb rips through the Grand Hotel.<br />

Yvonne Thatcher is gunned down and her murderer <br />

Flies away a free man.<br />

Rajiv Gandhi fights dave his country after the<br />

Assassination of his mother.<br />

Millions face starvation in Ethiopia.<br />

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev is Soviet leader, while shouts<br />

Of "scab" greet miners.<br />

Unions vote to end the national strike.<br />

The rainbow warrior of Greenpeace is damaged in <br />

New Zealand by two bombs.<br />

Live aid rocks the world for the hungry,<br />

A policeman is hacked to death in London,<br />

Reagan in Geneva said the world is now a safe place.<br />

1986 Space shuttle explodes on take off, Swedish P.M. is<br />

Shot dead in the street, the pickets cash in wapping,<br />

Reagan bombs Libya (keep your head down), Russian<br />

Nuclear reactor is ablaze.<br />

1987 Beirut gun man attack U.N., Argentinian president<br />

Ends arms revolt, Gorbachev makes new offer on arms<br />

Cuts, Iraqi exocet blasts U.S. frigate,<br />

Thatcher is elected for a third term.<br />

In Britain 'spycatcher' is banned,<br />

But anyone can buy it in America.<br />

A storm hits the stock market on black monday.<br />

1988 S.A.S. gun man gun down I.R.A. unit in Gibraltar,<br />

Mitterand returns as French president. U.S. war ships<br />

Shoot down an Iranian airliner,<br />

Bush is elected as U.S. president.<br />

Thatcher speaks for Polish freedom.<br />

Britain is shocked by two disasters in nine days and<br />

Edwina resigns over a storm in an egg cup.<br />

1989 Berlin wall is torn down,<br />

Freedom sweeps the East. In China a light of hope in<br />

Tiannamen square is extinguished.<br />

In Romania peoplel fight against the dictator Ceauces-Cu<br />

And with his death they win.<br />

For once it seems a hope and good can prevail.<br />

1990 Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, U.N. troops leave<br />

To face the unknown horrors of modern warfare.<br />

Mandela is freed, the Soviet pulls out of Czechoslavakia<br />

And Maggie Thatcher resigns.<br />

1991 The waiting is over, the Gulf explodes, never<br />

Has such a powerful force been unleashed against one<br />

Nation. The bombardment against Iraq is relentless,<br />

The end comes quickly, as the victorious survivors<br />

Celebrate, for some the battle against grief is just<br />

Beginning, yellow ribbons are everywhere, with the<br />

Release of John McCarthy,<br />

It seems at last the world is changing for the better.<br />

The plights of those in misery<br />

A dead necked vision, product of subsidence.<br />

Fucked up, and held in screaming silence<br />

Another police force investigation<br />

Blatant lies, false fucked suggestions<br />

Is it all down to communications?<br />

Or does the grass need cutting?<br />

Has it changed direction?<br />

The chants that only serve to divide<br />

The police link with the revenue, the royalties slide<br />

Now as poor old joy gardener bites the dust<br />

Why should I give a flying fuck?<br />

But the lefties scream outside the courts<br />

Looking to lay the blame, it's no one's fault<br />

They show sincerity, oh how much they care<br />

Yeah, in their sick, twisted cause, in their affairs<br />

A black boy has just missed his bus<br />

A racist attack? Or blood thirsty lust?<br />

Again the left jump on the back of this weeks attack<br />

And force feed, socialist shit militant crap.<br />

They blatantly try and whip up violence.<br />

Why don't they keep their arseholes shut?<br />

And keep in silent.<br />

Another black person has died, that is true<br />

But are you surprised? I ain't, because I already knew<br />

By promoting political deaths they could not give a fucking toss<br />

Sexism reigns in mans green wordl<br />

The A.L.F. proves yet again that they won't be told<br />

That what they do (or don't) is totally wrong<br />

So fuck off you insane cunts, it still remains...<br />

Our song!<br />

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Detention centres for the relentless <br />

Approves schools for the fools<br />

Abolish the jury, punish the fury<br />

But it's our power that you fuel <br />

So is it basically blatantly obvious<br />

And in fact fucking common sense<br />

That when people are forced to live in shit<br />

Under your conditions, crime will undoubtedly spread<br />

You may be watching every move we make<br />

You even convince yourself that you're clever<br />

But I'm looking back right into your eyes, so<br />

Don't you ever, never ever, think that I might trip or<br />

Slip right down your stairs<br />

Into your cells, where unaware, you can beat<br />

And fuck me senseless, while the world spins<br />

Around relentless<br />

You may have people on your side that I<br />

Consider the lowest form of life<br />

But don't you think of what you call respect<br />

Even enters into our minds aspect<br />

For I'm sick of respect, how bout our causes instead?<br />

What made the maddeened go to extreme lengths<br />

Who simply couldn't take it<br />

Who knew they wouldn't make it<br />

Being ground down fine, by those who haven't got the time<br />

For they shall punish those who sin<br />

Toss the peasants live into the bin<br />

Of those who won't beg for their pittance<br />

And that still remains our fucking difference<br />

Who will not beg to their Jesus, god<br />

Christ I've had enough of that<br />

Christ I've had enough of this