Πανικοβάλ 65

 “Rejoice friends!

Big government is over.

From now on, instead of

community

you will be left

in the Market place

to fend for yourselves

claw for yourselves

stab for yourselves

guard for yourselves

what little money, savings, dignity and shelter

you have left.

After your jobs are downsized and

exported to Mexico,

tennishoes made by slaves in camps in Indonesia,

computer jobs sent across the ocean to Indonesia,

you will be next unless you bow down to the gar boots

and throw your benefits away

your raises away

and this is all you have to look forward to

forever and ever and ever.

As more and more benefits are slashed,

no more tax and spend welfare state

the windfall from tax cuts for the rich

is more and more people

out in the cold on the street!

Begging for money.

And when that doesn't work,

robbing people

car jacking

home invasion

everyone taught

that life is so cheap

there's nothing to look forward to

except what you can score

and smoke and get higher.

Ending welfare as we know it

means third world crime

as we know it.

So why is it all these

young people today misbehave

misbehave, misbehave?

Don't they appreciate the world we've build for them?

Crappy jobs,

dog eat dog.

No compassion in the marketplace.

If you like school

you'll love work.

Instead they ditch work

and hang out on the street:

young culture

young hooligans

on tv anyway

and in the newspaper

they’re causing trouble.

More and more people

will poor in the street

as their rents go up

and job opportunities go down.

So we have to keep them down

before they rise up and burn our

house of cards to the ground.

It's just the cost of doing business

in third world countries where we keep the peasants down.

We have to live in armed compounds with armed guards,

play tennis at gunpoint.

A different route to work behind bullet proof glass each day,

but hey, the more the hoards hate you the more

status you got.

Why not do this with the whole world?

with GAT treaties, downsizing but what about those god damned

hooligans in the street?

We stole their future.

It's all their fault!

We must lock them up,

but there is no room in the jails

so the best way is to sweep them away,

make every home a prison today.

Curfew, Curfew

Who cares how much our leaders are corrupt, as long as they are tough

on crime?

Curfew

Keep them away!

Curfew

No longer unauthorized activity.

You can't leave the home without an electronic ankle bracelet.

Young offenders must be tagged and watched at all times.

Tag their parents with bracelets too if they don't obey!

For that matter tag them at work and make them stay.

The main enemy

terrorist threat

is your own children.

Think about it:

The music they listen to

that tells them the world is bad.

It's the songs that are the problem

not the violence outside.

Keep them locked up!

Keep them in Curfew!

Put them away!

Don't let them out!

We are tougher on crime

before the election.

We want a national law

establishing children's bedtimes.

Bedtime Patrol

We'll check up on you.

Bedtime Patrol

Make sure that your bracelet is on.

The nanny state,

to reach down your pants and check and see if you've been

moistening yourself with any unauthorized substance without permission.

Tag them!

Curfew them!

Keep them down!

Keep them at home!

To school

to rent a video on the way home

and stay home

just like at work.

Do not gather after dark.

Curfew!

It's such a family oriented word,

a much more acceptable smiling soft word,

a much more palatable concept

than Marshall Law.

Put your bracelets on.

You are safer when you are watched.

Don't go outside.

You will set the alarm off!

Curfew

Forever

and ever and evvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

(Jello Biafra - 1997)

Tracklist:

01. Dal – L’houfa

02. Coldcut ft. Jello Biafra – Every home is a prison

03. Guerre Froide – Le fil

04. Bluvertigo – Numero

05. Devo – Satisfaction

06. Magicake – Boys don’t cry

07. Kraftwerk – The models

08. Pet Shop Boys – Requiem in denim and leopardskin

09. Art Of Noise – Dreaming in color

10. Light Asylum – Shallow tears (Kool Thing Remix)

11. Erasure – Ship of fools (Soil In The Synth Remix)

12. Monsieur Minimal – Fall

13. Lemon Jelly – Kneel before your god

14. Telex – Ça plane pour moi

15. Sporto Kantes – Concrete

16. Neneh Cherry and The Thing – Dream baby dream

17. Gil Scott-Heron – New York is killing me (feat. Nas)

18. Coin Locker Kid – Usurper

19. Sarah Sayed & xxxy – The Earth got round

20. Poolside – Fly away (Poolside edit)

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