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Mother Earth
04:53
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Mother Earth
Life oozing from the body
Blood dripping from the wounds
Hers is a long hard story
Oh, a loveless honeymoon
Started with the invention of man
Who thought himself oh so grand
That he was able to stand
To walk without bending down
Mother Earth, Mother Earth
Hope you haven’t spent your life in vain
Mother Earth, you deserve
To never have to feel such pain
It’s getting worse, oh Mother Earth
Can’t stop your dying by myself
I’m pleading, calling out,
Calling out to get some help
Caveman killed the bounty
Natives tilled the soil
But then man poured the concrete
And covered up her soul
Poisoned the air that she breathed
Spoiled her living seas
Now she lies here unable to stop
To stop the wounds that bleed
Mother Earth, Mother Earth
I hope you haven’t spent your life in vain
Mother Earth, oh you deserve
To never have to feel such pain
It’s getting worse, oh it’s getting worse Mother Earth
Can’t stop your dying by myself
I’m pleading, calling out, calling out
Calling out to get some help.
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No More Living In The Third World
You keep us in our places with your military might
Spend all our money and tell us that it’s right
This greedy business creeps into our lives
If you take it all how can we survive
It’s a matter of economy
Can’t you see, can’t you see
Oh, you don’t need it all
It’s a big mistake
If you had a heart
Well, you could stop the race
There’d be no more living in the third world
You think we should eat what you won’t eat yourself
Try strange new drugs, playing with our health
Defective genes, rejected lives
Deformed children play before our eyes
Do you need that car
Or that new TV?
You don’t need it all
It’s a big disgrace
If you had a heart
We could all keep pace
And there’d be no more living in the third world
Oh you level out our landscape, replace it with a void
Same with our hopes, our culture is destroyed
You direct the way we run our government
With the tried and true carrot and the stick
It’s just bribery,
Connivery, can’t you see
Oh, you don’t need it all
It’s a big mistake
If you had heart
We could all save face
You don’t need it all,
It’s a big mistake
If you had a heart
There’d be no more living in the third world
You don’t need it all,
It’s a big disgrace
If you had a heart
There’d be no more living in the third world
You don’t need it all,
It’s a big mistake
If you had a heart
There’d be no more living in the third world
You don’t need it all,
It’s a big disgrace
If you had a heart
There’d be no more living in the third world
You don’t need it all!!
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The Party's Over
04:06
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The Party’s Over
Did you think that you would be
President for eternity
You had your fun, take your cash
Run away
Save it for another rainy day.
You got your paintings, got your gold
From the country you just sold
You were the bane of the neighbourhood
Run away
We don’t want to play today.
You run, you hide
No one invites you anymore
The party’s over,
You scream, you cry
It doesn’t matter what you do
The party’s over.
How could you have stooped so low
To have reaped but never sewn
Hack and burn, parch the land,
Run away.
Trying to live off this land of clay.
Are you the only one or is it true
That there are others just like you
To take your place now that you’re gone
Run away.
Where oh where to run today.
You run, you hide
No one invites you anymore
The party’s over,
You scream, you cry
It doesn’t matter what you do
The party’s over.
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
The party’s over, over
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Which Doctor
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Which Doctor
We pay with our labours, just to get your favours
But you want more, witch doctor
The sickness is growing, our cancer is showing
Please wait in line, witch doctor
Which doctor is the one
Which doctor do we call
Which doctor has some feeling
Which one won’t take it all?
Which doctor,
Tell us please
Which doctor,
We’re on our knees
Which doctor
Won’t be the one
To take all our money?
Who do that voodoo like you do
Who do that voodoo like you do
Who do that voodoo like you do
Who do that voodoo like you do
Who do that voodoo like you do
“Did you plan this all along?”
Who do that voodoo like you do
“Was Hippocrates all wrong?”
Must we all be wealthy
For you to keep us healthy
Keep us alive
Witch doctor?
Please don’t leave the old and poor
Begging at your bolted door
They’re people too
Witch doctor
Who do that voodoo like you do
Witch doctor?
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Glaznost
05:01
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Glaznost
If you’re not dancing to this song
You’re going to Siberia
Dance Cossack
Dance Cossack
Glaznost!!!!!
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Hip Hop Mix
03:44
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Hip Hop Mix
Mix up
Can’t let another day go by
The devil made me do it ‘til the day I die
It’s a beat I can’t deny
I’ve been beatified
Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
You’re going to do it
‘Til the day you die
I’ve got a beat you can’t deny
The whole world’s going to be
Be, be, beatified
Hop, hop, hip hop
Mix ‘em up
Hop, hop, hip hop
Mix ‘em up
It never leaves my mind
Oh, I just can’t find the time
It’s his grand design
To hip hop hip all mankind
I’m here to testify
That hip hop, hip hop music
Is evil, wicked, sinful
The devil gets inside and
Throws away the body
Writhing, slithering
In endless dance
Shameful and downright
…..Fun…..
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The Blob
03:24
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The Blob
Oh, it’s eating everything, what is it?
I don’t know brother, it came from the river
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!
There’s a blob in the bottom of the river
They thought they were being clever
But it slipped into our water
To get your sons and daughters
Well, first they tried to clean it up
But it keeps on oozing from the muck
They tried bacteria to destroy it
But the blob just ate Detroit
That didn’t matter much
Cleaned up all that smog and dust
Then it drank the Ohio River
You know that didn’t matter either
It slipped over to Chicago
Then came back and downed Toledo
What to do with this mutation
Before it gobbles up the nation
“Attention, this is a news flash
The blob is growing larger
It seems to be consuming all industrial
Areas of the country.
Run for your lives!!!”
Now maybe the blobs not so bad
Ohio’s gone, no one’s sad
Pittsburgh wasn’t really missed
And much the same for St. Louis
They thought that something should be done
When it hit the burbs of Washington
Ronnie Reagan made a speech
Didn’t save the city though, oh no!
While the States was going mad
Another blob ate Stalingrad
It took the London underground
And then Bejing could not be found
I wonder where the world is gone
The multinationals were wrong
They sucked us dry and took our health
Just to build up their own wealth
Excuse me, waiter,
I wonder if I could have a glass of…
Eeeeeuch!!!!
There’s a blob in the river
At the bottom of the river.
(What you gonna do about!)
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Nameless Shame
03:53
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Nameless Shame
It’s such a sad thing, what can he do now
You did a bad thing, wanted to get it all
He was a bad man, didn’t know right from wrong
He nearly got it right but then he got it wrong
What can he do now
What can he do now
What can he do now
What can he do
There is no reason for him to act this way
He never listens to what other people say
If you should meet him don’t ask him to stay
He’ll take what he can and then just walk away
For him to act this way
For him to act this way
For him to act this way
For him to act this way
Thought you were serious
What did we every do to you
Love and trust are essential
When will you understand the important values in life
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