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[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago

"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."

[-] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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"

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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