My friends say we're stuck in a hopless thing
They all say the same thing - it can't work
Our life's so full of strife
It make's you reach for the knife
It won't work, aw but you know the feeling

So it goes & now it's gone
You & me we struggle on
Please seize these chains that hold us back
Let's make it work!

Life lists on & we survive, but it sucks us dry
The bitter waste, chances passed
And we passed them on
Now everybody's saying our time has gone

So it goes & now it's gone
You & me we struggle on
Please seize these chains that hold us back
Let's make it work!

The world's upside down & backwards round, yes it is
To serve no purpose only profit
That brutal? More so: To serve them all days & nights
Why, every waking hour! And more besides

Some say we're stuck in this life of pain but I maintain we can change it
All that we need, we've got it
To cut loose from this sham, God damn!
Seize these chains that hold us back

Others make this a world in crisis
- Let's make it work!
You & me, we struggle on
And so it goes
Damn wrong! Seize these chains that hold us back
Let's make it work!

It's time the names were named
It's time that the blame was blamed on someone
You name those names
They take the blame
You names the names

So get ready to name those names
Name those names

It's time that the names were named
It's time that the blame was blamed on someone
You name the names
Yeah, you name those names

So get ready to name those names

It's time the names were named
It's time that the blame was blamed on someone

So get ready to name those names now
Get ready to name those names

It's time, it's time, yeah
It's time, it's time, now
Name those names
Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan
Mikell Gorbachev
Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdock
Margaret Thatcher
Ronald Reagan
Mikell Gorbachev
Margaret Thatcher
Ronald Reagan

Says time in a molecule
Says more than a thousand years
Says he’s never seen a thing – it’s plain to see
it’s there but never seen
The hunter and the hunted

Kicked us down for so long but one day
The people you kicked down kick back
and there’s a crack

Dispatch all assurances
that we’d live in a fairer world
It still seems to fair to say to me it’s plain to see
it’s there but never seen
The hunter and the hunted

Kicked us down for so long but one day
The people you kicked down kick back

Kicked us down for so long, for so long

Little – little report
News we play on the slides no more
We fight but never win
And speed its violent, sudden end

Kicked us down for so long but one day
The people you kicked down kick back
and there’s a crack!

I got a job just shifting beer
Straight out of school, straight into here
I got a job pays none too well
But every Friday I can tell them go to hell

This place is noisy and full of dust & shit
This jobs dead lousy but I can't get out of it
Come every Friday I see an old man
Sat back from the bar in the smoke room
He's been through battles
He's seen some hard ones
I fought and lost he said
But let me tell you this son

Your only weapon
Is those you work with
Your strength is their strength
Can't beat the rank and file

Go get organized!

I joined the union & started signing up
I found a man ten years a member
And all this time he's been holin' up, hiding quiet
We pressed the govnor for improved conditions
And found ourselves on strike for union recognition

I seen the old man in the smoke room
He's been through battles
He's seen some hard ones
I fought and lost he said
But let me tell you this son

Your only weapon
Is those you work with
Your strength is their strength
Can't beat the rank and file

Go get organized!

Come every Friday I see an old man
Sat back from the bar in the smoke room
He's been through battles
He's seen some hard ones
I fought and lost he said
But let me tell you this son

Your only weapon
Is those you work with
Your strength is their strength
Can't beat the rank and file

Go get organized!

For the first time
After too many years of waiting
It's a fine thing to see working people
Stop celebrating
The passive state in which they eke out life
Accepting strife
And gracious for it too We've stopped running

Mothers and lovers
Breaking out of years of passive living
Always giving service to the lip of men
Who've never given them
The chance to serve themselves
To stand their own
And win a world they have a part in
And now that's starting
There an't no stoppin' what we can do

Fan this fire
An' we'll be turin' loose

Police make crimes of picket lines
And the working man
He hasn't got the right
To fight to save his living
Then is given no choice
Once young & old sat tight
But now
They fight to win a world they have a part in
We bought their lies. Now stop! Realize!
If we stop running, they can't chase us!

Breaking backs, bones an' brandin' names
Is turnin' loose these furious flames
Fan the flames an' we'll be turnin' loose!

A world is waiting. Quit waiting too
You've got to take what they'll never give you
The runnings stopped cos the penny's dropped
Fan these flames an' we'll be turnin' loose!

I ain't found what I'm looking for
I ain't found what I'm looking for now
But I've found something
And I'm going to change em

Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Alright

Can't remember such a bitter time
The Boss says jump! The workers fall in line
I'm not down, but I'm feeling low
The whip us into line
With the threat of the dole

Time & time when the workers rise
The fightback's stabbed by a neat backstab
& the papers lies
Leaders lead us into blind retreat
One by one we take the money
Ten by ten we face defeat

Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Alright

The bosses make us pay for their crisis
They blame us for daring to challenge things
Keep on keepin' on now
Keep fighting daring yeah yeah yeah
'Till the fightback begins

I ain’t won what I’m fighting for
Full-timers backslide to the cries of sell out!
We've got to get the reins in our hands ourselves
Stand firm! Hold tight! And fight!

The bosses, they hit
While we're taking it
In turns to spit
Divide & lose now aaarrhhhhhhhhh!
No point in fighting anyway (no point)
If we don't win the day (hold tight)
No point if we don't shoot
The bastards afterwards

Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Alright

It is better
To die on our feet
Than to live on our knees
If we fight as one
Then the fight is won
Til that day we’ll keep keeping on yeah

Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Keep on keepin' on yeah
'Till the fight is won
Alright

Keep on keepin' on oh yeah!
K-e-e-p I'm keepin' on yeah!
Like a red machine
We gotta keep a keep a stay out
Maybe 5 or even 6 months yeah
7, 8, 9, 10 and if it takes a year
We got to last a year

Memories of years gone by
Dashed hopes & a dream that died
Spirit pulled us through
Times were hard but we fought as one
Now those days of hope are gone
You're resigned to lose

Success come to the strong
The struggle's hard & the struggle's long
Lean on me & I will pull you through

Sad signs of a sad dispair
A wildcat here & a wildcat there
Weak in isolation, short lived inspiration
It's an old tale told ten thousand times
But while we're split we waste our lives
Together we've a wold to win!

Success come to the strong
The struggle's hard & the struggle's long
Lean on me & I will pull you through

We may argue right & wrong
But together we are strong
A flame that can't be dimmed
It's not in order to survive
You've got to lean on me
You can fight alone without solidarity

Success come to the strong
The struggle's hard & the struggle's long
Lean on me & I will pull you through...

Let's get this situation sorted out!
We're so polite
It makes me want to shout
We waive the everything we want
An' take the nothing we already have
An' I'm waiting on hold
For something to blow ...

All is in reach & as clear as day
Yet the smallest move
Remains a mile away
So we while away
Going nowhere bit by bit
An' it just seems
We can't get round to gettin' round to it
Sometimes it makes me ache ...

Someone once wrote
All the world's a stage
But the truth comes written somewhat different on my page
I know this script's fixed from the start
Cos ordinary men & women only get
Supporting parts
An' I'm waiting on hold
For something to explode

We spend our lives
Waitin' for
Someone other than ourselves
To make a move

We always do
We do
We always blow it
I know
You know
I know you know it but ...

I keep on coming back because
The power is yours

Russia sparked the fires in 1917
First workers revolution
The first workers revolution in history
Working people forced the bosses' backs against the wall
First steps taken for a better life for all

It's a shame
It's a crying shame
When our past is buried
And our victories go un-named
It's a crying shame
When our history books
Talk of kings & men of fame

And in another country workers rose again
1919, 1919 in Berlin
But they didn't learn the lessons
From the Russians that they should
Revolution, revolution was drowned in blood

It's a crying shame
But the lessons plain
It's a crying shame
But the lessons plain

All things are possible

Hunger of the 30's
Hunger of the 30's back again
And the rich still rich
And the poor still the same as they ever were
And it seems to me
We're still not learning from our history

And it's a crying shame
Those who hold the future hold themselves in chains
It's a crying shame
Those who bear the pain hold themselves to blame
It's a crying, it's a crying shame
It's a crying shame

Look at Petrograd!
Look at Barcelona
Fight against the land
Fight against the land & the factory owners
Same fight today against another ruling class
Learn a lesson from your past

It's a crying shame
But the lessons plain
It's a crying shame
But the lessons plain
It can happen again
It's a crying, crying, crying shame
But the lessons plain
It can be done again!

You've never had it so good
The favourite phrase of those who've always had it better
Burn it up!
Realise the altogether

Bring it down
Burn together
The altogether's an insane thing, insane thing
Bring it down
All together
The altogether's an insane thing, insane thing

You've never had it so good
The favourite phrase of those who've always had it better
You never had so much is the cry
Of those who've always had much more, much more than you & I

Burn brother burn
Fight together
This altogether's an insane thing, insane thing
Bring it down
All together
The altogether's an insane thing, insane thing

Burn
Insane thing, insane thing
Insane thing, insane thing

Burn brother burn
Let's burn Together
Burn brother burn
Burn, burn, burn
This insane thing, insane thing
Burn brother burn
Burn sister burn

Spurn the lie
They use to justify
This insanity!
The inhumanity!
Of this insane thing

Burn brother burn
Burn, burn, burn
Some's got it easy
Bring it down
The altogether
Keeps getting better for the few
Who've got it good to start with ...

Somebody told me today
Let slip in a casual way
Nobody seemed to care anycase
I didn't realise, I turned away

Somebody told me today
And though my mind was miles away
Slowly the pain welled inside
As I realised he'd died

Take no heroes, only inspiration
And if you learn nothing from his life
Learn this from his death
The man may die but his dream survives
I headed out, walked the town
Staring sick & lonely
Strange faces passed
And they didn't know ...

I wanted to tell them so but
Oh the rain beat hard & cold
A finer truth hit hard
Took hold

Take no heroes, only inspiration
And if you learn nothing from his life
Learn this one thing
The man may die
The man may die but his dream survives
Take no heroes
Take no heroes
Take no heroes

No way I could explain
No one to explain it to anyway
But a tearful misery's a sorry legacy
And this is not the time for sad obituaries
The rain beat hard and cold

Learn this thing
Take no heroes
Take no heroes
Take no heroes
Take no heroes

The man may die
The man may die
The man may die
But he's dream survives
Take no heroes

At the end of an era
The First thing to go
Are the heads of our leaders
Kicked down in the road...

On the day of reckoning
When we've struck & won
Watch close as their heroes
Go crashing down on the pavement...

The workers in Poland rose
& in Hungary too
Somoza & Jose fell
...Azania coming soon!

Kick over the statues
And the tyrants die
Wave bye bye with a hammer
To their heroes

The first act of freedom
All over the world
Is to topple the statues
Kick the bosses over

The first thing that needs to be said
Is hatred's all very well
But hatred must be organised
If dreams are to be realised
And anger is no substitute
For diciplined rebellion
To unionise is to organise

Unionise!
Fight back!
Unionise!
Stop! Strike!
Unionise!

Well all this talk of fighting back
Is talk to be ignored
If we don't know where our power lies
And utilize the tools we've got
The bosses have the money
And the workers have no rights
But our muscle is our labour
And we flex it when we go on strike

Unionise!
Fight back!
Unionise!
Stop! Strike!
Unionise!

We can talk of riots and petrol bombs
And revolutions all day long
But if we fail to organise
We'll waste our lives on protest songs
A life worth living is waiting to be won, sure
The day the bosses fall
The day the dream has come
But stop romanticising
Hollow talk is just a curse
The revolution won't appear
We all have to build for it first

Unionise!
Fight back!
Unionise!
Stop! Strike!
Unionise!

The street of shame is a street of hacks
The men behind the men who do deals behind our backs
The fourth estate is a house of hate
Media pimps with scant regards for facts
Like flies in search of shit to swarm around
They nail their victims with a telephoto to the ground
Feed the people on scraps of evil
They should be grateful for small mercies
And their daily diet - a plateful of hateful

Riding high are the monachy
Those parasites with titles and a family tree
The hateful power behind the smiling visions
The face that launched a thousand bingo competitions
Wealth in abundance and more to spare
The only qualities are the royal mare
Private greed, not public need
Life's geared to profit, money, wealth
They can't get enough of it

This crazy system is a heedless shame
A fit gain
For the rich an easy ride
And for the poor a life of pain
And in the papers the same old story
Every picture sells a tory
The finest halmarks of the second rate
The mental vacuum in a grand estate

Talk of a strike just one day old
And already a threatened workforce is been told
A cut in their wages is what they need
The poor man pays for the rich man's greed

Hold on, don't run away
Hold on, don't run away
Hold on now
Don't run away
The shop says yes
The boss says no
To hell with the ballot, boys
Go, go, go!

Well a worker goes to work each day
He goes to work to earn his pay, earn his pay
The boss don't like the union
cos the union makes the workers strong

Reds strike the blues

Well a worker goes to work each day
He goes to work to earn his pay, earn his pay
The boss don't like the union
cos the union makes the workers strong

Reds strike the blues

The worker went on strike today
He went on strike for better pay a living wage
The workers strike and the bosses don't
No workforce no profit
Let's keep them bosses on the run

Reds strike the blues

If you really want to be free
Take a tip from solidarity

Reds strike the blues

Russia is a man who turned into stone his is a sad history
There was another man who fought along and left a legacy
The lesson never learned the passion killed by state bureaucracy
The other man killed too & so fulfilled his tragic prophesy, tragic prophesy

Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me
Are you going

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Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me
Are you going

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But in Poland passion burned the dream has returned a worker said to me
Moscow will burn again and so will Leeds with Solidarity
With Solidartity his legacy, legacy

Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me, Moscow is like Leeds
Are you going she said to me
Are you going

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Are you going
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