Have fun reading the LYRICS for all these great songs....
1. SIAN EVANS UNSTITCHED BAND
Louder
I can't control this feeling
something's happening inside me
our senses come alive
the chemistry is building
it's something that we're feeling
there's nowhere you can hide
It's gonna get louder
We're gonna get stronger
We're gonna feel better
You can't tame this energy inside
I gotta reach higher
I wanna burn like a fire
Gotta move faster
You can't tame this energy inside
perpetual emotion
it's just a ripple in the ocean
a shadow in the night
changes we're making for the better
we're going through together
there's nowhere you can hide
it's more than a feeling
we're building a dream that we've always had clear in our sights
watch it ignite as we open our eye
it's the one way we know to survive
we're powerfully changing the world
we're reclaiming our unity
they can't divide
they push us around
but we're tearing it down
and we're having the time of our life
You can't tame this energy inside
faster
louder
stronger
better
faster
louder
better
you can't tame this energy inside
CREDITS
Sian Evans - vocals, Ron McElroy - guitar, Des Rodgers - drums, Rachael Lander - cello, Karl Rasheed - double bass, John Rea - hammond, Written by S.Evans and D.Stein
3. CHICKS WITH HITS
Heroes Fall
Bring it back to reality
Do you recall
How we always made a stand?
We acted out instinctively
We had a voice and we’d shout across the land
Our survival is not a certainty
We should have thought this through when time began
Can’t escape mortality
Now is it time to find a master plan
When you hear the thunder roll
Isn’t just a curtain call
Is it time to face it all
It’s now or never
Dig your head out of the sand
Don’t trust the suited man
Maybe they don’t understand
It’s now or never
Give me something to believe in
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
On my own, on my own own
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
Oh no I can’t go it alone
No No More
I can see it in front of me
A crystal ball that I could never touch
A lesson learnt from history
We didn’t stop
'Coz we wanted it too much
Too fast, too soon
We take, consume, use it all up
We taste, we waste
We try, we buy, gotta keep it up
I wanna live past 23 – 23 – 23
I need something to believe in
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
On my own, on my own own
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
Oh no I can’t go it alone
No No More
Too fast, too soon
We take, consume, we use it all up
We taste, we waste
We try, we buy, we keep it up
Everybody taking
And forsaking the world
Until it’s breaking
And it’s breaking my heart
To see it like that
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
On my own, on my own own
Don’t let my heroes fall
I need someone to believe in
Don’t make me fight this war
Oh no I can’t go it alone
No No More
CREDITS:
Written and produced by Phillipa Alexander, Paul Drew and Ellie Wyatt. Vocals by Kelly Barnes.
5. CLAIRE MARTIN and The Montpellier Cello Quartet -
The Man Who Sold The World
(originally by David Bowie)
We passed upon the stair,
we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there,
he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone,
a long long time ago
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World
I laughed and shook his hand,
and made my way back home
I searched for form and land,
for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare
at all the millions here
We must have died alone,
a long long time ago
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World
CREDITS:
Vocals - Claire Martin. Cellos - Joe Giddey, Sarah Davison, Dan James and Siriol Hugh-Jones
7. THE UNDERCOVER HIPPY
Coming To The Gambia
I'm just a man but I do what I can said I'm / spreading the message of the inspired ones and I / travel the land cos I got to understand how I / fit into the master plan. I'm coming to the / Gambia, that's where I'm spending my days, / collaborating with the youth on a the way in the / Gambia that's where the tourists play / but that's the modern day / what about the history of / exploitation under, occupation and the / subjugation of the, population it's the / same situation right across the nation and / across the world with the globalisation it's the / colonization of the modern day age / using economics now to create the slaves it's the / colonization of the modern day age / making sure the rich get paid. and I say / eh brikama do you hear what I say? I say / eh brikama are you thinking my way I say / eh brikama every, woman and man it's time to / dance your problems away - I say whoaa na na naaa / well it's the Europeans drew the lines on the map and now it's / time for the Africans to turn it back I said / erase the borders and erase the lines 'cause their / only divisions in the human mind and the / humankind is just one family, / you cut the skin it's always red when they bleed I said / humankind is just one family. / when will the people see? And I say / eh Brikama etc... / eh Brikama sounds like, Barack Obama he's the / first black man to lead the, Americans and I wanna / believe the world is gonna change for the better but I've / seen too much so I don't, hold my breath I just / accept that the world is led by, greedy men and so I / try to get out of their system then I find my / way to the wisdom in the, heart of man so I can / follow the master plan / and I'm coming to the Gambia etc.. Whoaa na na naaa / nata Brikama poro, cana denkilo la momo / mi lefita musicola ni momo lefita dongola / me I don't drink Cocacola, no I don't drink Nescafe / no I don't support these corporations on their next crusade / me I'm never gonna play that way, even though I know that crime does pay / livin my life in a rightfull way just mind what I say from the day to day while / these people convincing the poor to, spend their money on sugary water / most of the poor can't even afford to pay for the school for their sons and daughters / and if there's one thing life has taught me it's that we / we cannot live with this inequality no / if there's one thing life has taught me it's that we / We got to be free yeah, got be free no no (x2) / I said Whoaa na na naaa.
CREDITS:
Billy Salisbury- (Vocals, Guitar) Joe Gaywood (Drums) Zak Ranyard (Bass) Jessica Langton (BV's)
Andreas Millns (Keys) Matthew Pharaoh (Congas)
Jeremy Owens (Guitar)
9. CTRL SHIFT
We Can Make It Right Together
So you are an anarchist?
Running around and getting pissed
You should be getting activist
And saving the nation
I gotta get something off my chest
Our government is an Eton mess
We need leaders to be their best
Not sell off the silver & fuck the rest
We can win this fight together
We can make it right together
We can win this fight together
We can make it right together
You're oil hungry hypocrites
Shaking us down till we're all in bits
And if you don't like war planes & ships
Then you are a traitor
Poison water, children drink
There's gas flames in your kitchen sink
You'll be arrested if you even think
Coz you're a protestor
We can win this fight together
We can make it right together
We can win this fight together
We can make it right together
We can make it right together (x6)
We can make it right together now
Together now
Together now
Together now
We can make it right together
Together now
Together now
Together now
We can make it right together
You are not my enemy
We are not your enemy
And I am not your enemy
We're the just the c-c-country
Not and oil company
We just vote here
We just fucking live here
So why don't you just frack off!
CREDITS
Written & performed by John Etkin Bell and Jimi Ashmore
11. ZOE LEWIS
When The Developers Came To Tea
When the developers came to tea
I had lilacs outside my room
I had a little blackbird whistling me a blackbird tune
I had conkers swinging high in the chestnut tree
I had enough honey for at least 1 thousand and 50 bees!
I had butterflies and cups everywhere
I had a little cornfield with scarecrows and crows to scare
I even had clover, 3 leaf and sometimes 4
but what I had back then I'm afraid I don't have anymore
'Cos big bulldozers cut through my rolling hills
men with suits and cell phone ears
put concrete on the daffodils
Gold in the milk
diamonds in the sugar
they stirred it up with bribery
old Mrs. Brown couldn't turn 'em down
when the developers came to tea
(Mrs. Brown it's the developers here. Open the door. Open the door right now).
I had next door neighbors dropping in
I had a little corner shop
full of almost everything
a pinta on my doorstep, thanks to a friendly cow
but we just go like sheep to ugly supermarkets now
Streams of cars and traffic jams
they put a motorway
where there used to be baby lambs
Gold in the milk, diamonds in the sugar
they took my childhood away from me
Silly Mrs. Brown couldn't turn them down
when the developers came to tea
CREDITS
Song written and performed by Zoe Lewis
13. NAOMI BEDFORD
Ragged Shoreline
The northern shore is wild and free
like daggers are its teeth
cold borders battle hard along its raging reef
down to Leith
The western shore receives the sun
from far America
deep Atlantic surge of waves
from the bays of New Hampshire
Across the Stir
Painted by the brine
an infinity of miles
embrace the shoreline, the ragged shoreline
The eastern coast is Nelson's lair
shallow flat and wet
the mist clears on Whitby bay
to show the fishing nets
the red sunsets
Painted by the brine
an infinity of miles
embrace the shoreline, the ragged shoreline
From Tyne and Wash the tide will cross
to the veracious Thames
there docks the wondering world
on London's crooked stems
Welcome them......to the shoreline, the ragged shoreline
The southern shore is guarded well
by castle rock and isle
overlooked by chalky cliff along its crooked miles
Sing the waves .......
CREDITS :
Written by P.Simmonds/TMTCH. Published by Cherry Red Songs. Naomi Bedford on vocals, Donna Edmead & Alex Ball on backing vocals, Paul Simmonds on guitar and Ellie Wyatt on violin.
15. MOUNTAIN FIREWORK COMPANY
The Lonesome Losing Blues
CREDITS:
Grant Allardyce drums vocals, Gareth McGahan guitar banjo lead vocals, Matthew Oldfield guitar vocals, Simon Russell double bass vocals, Mike Simmonds violin mandolin vocals
17. HOWARD BLAKE
We Were Watching The Birds
CREDITS:
Performed by Michael Leighton Jones and The Scholars
19. BUICK 6
The Puller
INSTRUMENTAL!
CREDITS:
Roger Hubbard (Slide Guitar) Liam Genockey (Drums) and Colin Gibson (Bass)
2. THE MEOW MEOWS
England Is Over
So are you ready
To lose control,
Or are you waiting
ʻTill you enrol?
An education
What will you get
Three years frustration
A minor debt
Look to the Left
Look to the Right
A gentle bark
Has too much bite
Or are you waiting
For another day
A lifetime saving
Is pissed away
We fought for better education
You heard what you wanted anyway
You fell for the same situation
A different face
The same disgrace
Are you distracted
Youʼve got no voice
And are you angry
Youʼve got no choice
Or are you waiting
'Till another day
Are you embarrassed
You have no say
We fought for better education
You heard what you wanted anyway
So now you swallow your frustration
On the treadmill
A bitter pill
So was it worth it?
What did you get?
Start an uprising
A minor threat
Look to the Left
Look to the Right
What you gonna do?
Are you gonna fight?
CREDITS:
Danny Ashcroft - Guitar, Claire Ellis - Tenor Sax
Matt Ellis - Trumpet, Matt Gale - Drums
Alex D. Hay - Keys, Emma King - Alto Sax
Ian Mackenzie - Bass, Hanna Mawbey - Vocals
Danny Noble - Vocals
4. RUBYLUX
Westminster
Cold, cold is the air around us,
Through to the bones I've never sold.
We must remember that we are the law with our numbers.
Don't stop your visions of repair.
Stop the reign, stop the reign.
And let's take Westminster.
We made these chains.
Stop the reign, stop the reign.
And let's take Westminster,
Coz we are change.
Blame, blame is the pointed finger
And you'll never stop till you dig its grave.
And we must remember the people who are lost in slumber.
Don't stop your visions of repair.
Stop the reign, stop the reign.
And let's take Westminster.
We made these chains.
Stop the reign, stop the reign.
And let's take Westminster,
Coz we are change.
Never underestimate your mind.
Born into a system living servants till we die.
Don't stop your visions of this world you could repair.
Stop the reign, stop the reign.
And let's take Westminster.
We made these chains.
Stop the reign, stop the pain.
And let's take Westminster,
Coz we are change.
CREDITS:
Written & Performed by Rob Humphreys, Clark Coslett-Hughes, Mike Hall, Adam Harris and James Sanger. Produced by James Sanger. Mixed by Ash Howes.
6. CARRIE TREE
Water Song (Frack Free Edit)
I'm in the wild lands of Ireland,
An old ancient town.
Where our Grandfather's would have drunk fresh from the well.
I'm sitting here quietly by the river shore,
but I hear the clear song of sorrow coming from the river floor.
I talked to a local man who dropped me off here,
he said,
"You can't drink or swim in any water round here no more,
No you can't drink or swim in any water round here no more".
Well where do you come from,
And where would you flee,
If we kill all the sweet water and there's just dead salty sea?
And would we then fight for it, coz how would you survive,
At what point would we notice all the river's had died?
When you can't drink or swim in any water in this world no more?
I make a prayer and I sing for all the water in this world.
Don't we know this yet?
Earth is our body, As water's our blood.
The virus of our greed is now reaching the edge.
If we're not so careful they'll be no wild places left.
Grandfather warns us of the red in the sky,
If we keep on consuming with our insane denial.
I don't mean to sound tragic,
I don't mean to bring you down,
But there are oceans of tears to be cried for the waste of this land.
Where do you come from, And where would you flee,
If we kill all the sweet water and there's just angry dead sea?
How would we ever grieve this, Oh I need to hear you cry,
At what point would you notice all the river's had died?
Who would tell our children, what on earth would we say,
No you can't drink or swim in any water in this world no more?
So I make a prayer and I stand for all the water in this world -
I will somehow protect you,
May I somehow not forsake you.
I fell asleep at the wheel, I got severed from truth
but I pray we're waking up in time...
I pray we're waking up in time.
Don't we know this yet?
Earth is our body, As Water's our blood.
And I know this now,
Earth is my body, as water's my blood.
CREDITS:
Produced by Matt Tweed, Carrie Tree and Rowan Sterk, Carrie Tree – Vocals, Guitar, Bv's, Rowan Sterk – Percussion, Asha McCarthy – Cello, Matt Tweed – Fretless bass, Mark Woodward & Ayla Schafer – BV's
8. VICKY NOLAN
Good Fight
Let me hear you say Put em’ up, put em’ up
Let me hear you say Put em’ up, put em’ up
For every finger you point
There’s three pointing back at you
For every chance that you let slip by
You’ve got a lame excuse
Nothing you wanna say
Nothing you wanna do
So you just sit and wait
So typical of you
Don’t let it pass you by
Life is short just keep on moving
We won’t get another try
Don’t need your apathy
Give me your energy
We’re all in this together
Embrace your enemy
It’s time to breathe in deep
We’ll fight the good fight, the good fight
You can be my teacher
And I’ll learn a thing or two
I don’t need a preacher baby
What I need is you
I’ll take the little test
You’ll take a little more
We can only do my best
To even up the score
Don’t let it pass you by
Life is short just keep on moving
We won’t get another try
Don’t need your apathy
Give me your energy
We’re all in this together
Embrace your enemy
It’s time to breathe in deep
We’ll fight the good fight, the good fight
Oh, let me hear you say, put em up, put em’ up
Oh, let me hear you say, put em up, put em’ up
I’ll take the little test
You’ll take a little more
We can only do my best
To even up the score
Don’t let it pass you by
Life is short just keep on moving
We won’t get another try
CREDITS:
Written by Alex Ball, Vicky Nolan & Ellie Wyatt. Produced by Sanj Sen
10. THE TATSMITHS
Resist
CREDITS:
Written and produced by The Tatsmiths
Engineered by Will Angeloro
Vocals & Guitar: Zora, Saxaphone: Chez
Fiddle: Christine, Bass: Jim, Drums: Dave
12. VEYU
Running
I ran away,
To find the bright lights calling my name
But the call didn't reach my ears
So i fell to the ground in fear
What happens to me now
How will the world find out
Will the seasons change
To leave me running in the rain
Through the backstreets I'll be running
Into the listless arms of nothing
Into another dead end I run
Trying to find a way in the darkness
Through the backstreets I'll be running
Into the listless arms of nothing
Into another dead end I run
It's getting hard to keep on running
Is there a place where we can go
To thaw our bones
A place we can call home and see
Things the way they should be seen
Because i don't know
Head from heart
Or wrong from right
All i know is this is life, this is life
Through the backstreets I'll be running
Into the listless arms of nothing
Into another dead end I run
Trying to find a way in the darkness
Through the backstreets I'll be running
Into the listless arms of nothing
Into another dead end I run
It's getting hard to keep on running
CREDITS
Vox/guitar- Chris Beesley, Vox/guitar- Adam Bresnen, Drums- Tom McCabe, Synths- Donovan Collins, Bass- Ash Hopkins
14. ELEANORE AND THE LOST
My True Nature (Revisited)
Life can leave me lost And wandering alone
Armies on all sides
And far away from home
But when the rain falls I’m finally alive
There’s more than you or I can ever know
Each tree that meets the sky has roots deep down below
Such mysteries fill the rivers and walk the hills
I step outside and feel like I’ve
Come home….
My true nature grows
And changes naturally
I am everything
And everything is me
So when the moon calls
I’m finally alive
There’s more than you or I can ever know
Each tree that meets the sky has roots deep down below
Such mysteries fill the rivers and walk the hills
I step outside and feel like I’ve
Come home….
CREDITS
Words, music, arrangement, lead and backing vocals: Eleanore, Strings: Holywell String Quartet
Guitar: David Burt, Bass: Ollie Chipchase
Drums: Alex Torjussen, Produced by Adam Pain
Mastered by Clive Cherry, Tongue and Groove Studios
16. JAIRAMJI
Mother Tongue (Frack Free Edit)
INSTRUMENTAL!
CREDITS
Written & performed by Charlie Roscoe and Sussana Waters
18. VIBE MACHINE
Polar Bears
It's not only about Polar Bears it's also about People, People.people,people,people,
It's not only about Polar bears it's also about people,
People driven from there home due to desertification,
People driven from their home because of rising seas,
Children trained to carry rifles as a service to their nation,
Children shit themselves to death due to disease.
Now I know it's fucking awful that the polar caps are melting,
That a sacred species' standing on the brink,
Yet every time I see the issue tackled in the papers,
I see a picture of a bear and have to think,
That it's not only about Polar bears,
It's also about people,
people.people,people,people,
People freezing in there homes because they can't afford the power,
People starving in there homes because they can't afford the rice,
People packed up into ghetto’s getting bigger by the hour,
People paying for their freedom at a top end price.
See it's not only about Polar bears,
It's also about people,
people.people,people,people.
CREDITS
Dave Pepper - Vox, Simon Gill - Keys
Phil Stutely - Bass, Miggy Barradas - Drums
Viva Msimang - Trombone, Tomoya Forster - Tenor Sax, Sofia Alzira - Vox, Leeanne McAllister - Vox
20. PORTIA COCKS
Defenders Of The Land
I vow to thee my country
That I will stand my ground
And I vow to lay my life down
If that time comes around
They will find me here fighting
With everything I have
When they come to destroy
Our green and pleasant land
I will throw you out
Come hell or high water
I will chase you down
‘Til you’re running from our borders
For you will admit defeat
Upon bended knee
‘Cause I’ll never let you take
My country from me
I vow to thee my country
To stand for what is right
And I will not let them silence me
With fear and vicious lies
Be they media or government
Financed by corporate greed
They will come to rue the day
They thought I could be deceived
I will throw you out
Come hell or high water
I will chase you down
‘Til you’re running from our borders
For you will admit defeat
Upon bended knee
‘Cause I’ll never let you take
My country from me
I vow to thee my country
To guard and serve this land
I will not be swayed by cowards
Or the ignorance of man
These forests and these fields
Our gullies and our streams
Are worth more than all the gold
They could ever give to me
I will throw you out
Come hell or high water
I will chase you down
‘Til you’re running from our borders
For you will admit defeat
Upon bended knee
Because I’ll never let you take
My country from me
We will throw you out
Come hell or high water
We will chase you down
‘Til you’re running from our borders
For you will admit defeat
Upon bended knee
Because we stand here together
Defenders of the land
CREDITS:
Vocals & Guitars - Portia Cocks, Mandolin & Guitars - Ben Grove, Double Bass, Percussion & Production - David Berry. Written by Portia Cocks