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Vote For Change

from Pick A Side by Academy Morticians

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The economy is fucked
You want a job you’re out of luck
And don’t you feel that sense of déjà vu?

For have we not heard this before?
The promise that they’ll do much more,
Kick the old guard out and start anew?

And isn’t it incredible
How absolutely gullible
In the end we all turn out to be?

The same old lies, a different voice
We still believe we have a choice
A vote for change we never really see

When we VOTE FOR CHANGE

One speaks of the deficit
The other reducing benefits
In practice both illusions are the same

The re-branding of old ideas
Contemporized with modern fears
The same old story under a new name

And isn’t it familiar?
Euphoria, hysteria,
The sense of something new to start again?

And how that feeling soon falls flat
A creeping dread, you realize that
The brand new day you dreamt of never came

Still you VOTE FOR CHANGE

Did you really think they’d let you choose?
If it meant they might actually lose?
Did you really think you had a say?
When with the promise of salvation you’ll shut up and go away?

They keep on giving us black eyes
And yet we still feign our surprise
Every time the fist flies to our face



The actors change the play’s the same
Different rules to an unchanged game
A wealth of evidence on which to base

This isn’t just conspiracy
But documented history:
Those with power don’t let go the reigns

Yet still we hope each time again
That this is now and that was then
And blindly follow liars lulling “change”

And we VOTE FOR CHANGE

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from Pick A Side, released March 30, 2016
Written by DaN McKee. Performed by Academy Morticians.

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Academy Morticians Birmingham, UK

Started in a teenaged bedroom back in 1995 and still going strong twenty years later these unsung heroes of the UK punk scene have been mixing angry punk rock, political awareness and catchy vocal harmony for over two decades and are still yet to be considered anybody's favourite band. ... more

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