Name: 5. No Control
Duration: P00H02M55S
Description: We really loved the sound and drumming of bands like the Gang of Four, XTC and Rage Against The Machine, Magazine etc. The 'polemic' about '15 crosses in your lifetime' is about how democracy for many people is simply an illusion.

5. No Control

from The Future Sound of Punk by Newtown Aces

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We really loved the sound and drumming of bands like the Gang of Four, XTC and Rage Against The Machine, Magazine etc. The 'polemic' about '15 crosses in your lifetime' is about how democracy for many people is simply an illusion.

lyrics

No Control
No Control
Deep State
What a state
Democratic
Just a tactic
Nervous system
Kill the system
No Control
No Control

History is on your shoulder
Can you feel it?
Breathing down your neck
Carry your cross to your crucifixion
You’re already dead

No Control…. No Control… No Control….
15 crosses in your lifetime
The choices sanitised and controlled
That’s your democracy
For that they impose order
For that you are supposed to die for the flag
They say you are free, but only as you cost nothing

No Control
No Control
Public order
No border
Manifesto
Just a ghetto
G8
State hate

History is on your shoulder
Can you feel it?
Breathing down your neck
Have you sussed out your own extinction?

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from The Future Sound of Punk, released August 9, 2022
All words & music, Barny & Dist.

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Newtown Aces London, UK

Barny Smyth (punk poet, bass player, video producer and roadie) and Dist (Elephant Assault Course, go-to guitarist and producer) team up to take you on a politically charged punk rollercoaster.

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