Rise up. (Music & Lyrics Claire Foxx)

Here we are, nearly down to the line.
We’re running on fumes most of the time.
Living in an ‪age of extinction‬ rebellion
overloaded information, data overwhelming
The bitstream drip drip drips throughout the day
I tried to turn it off but the switch just fell away
News becomes lies, propaganda tries
to turn me into something I can only despise.

[megaphone]
We’re living in an age of a peak failed experiment
Our lives are worthless — except to the one percent!

The cruelty of the state forms a constant backdrop
The old white men in their pressed suits never stop
Stoking up hate, that’s the whole fucking point of it
Making the assumption we won’t do anything
Keeping us fed on racist bullshit
Putting on the pressure, will nobody release it?
Truth becomes lies from old ‪school ties‬
all they want is compliance as fascists rise.

[megaphone]
Fear and guilt from global warming
There’s hate in the belly of a blood moon, WE SING!

Rise up, Rise up or they will never stop
This is the age when we all drop
The age of rage becomes centre stage
Our end is looming as we turn the page.
Rise up, Rise up or they will never stop
This is the age when we all drop
The age of rage becomes centre stage
Our end is looming as we turn the page.

The earth beneath us is crumbling away
We’re a rogue-state death-cult ideology
Gunmen on the prowl in our schools and colleges
Dystopian twittering of false-flag messages
Right wing conspiracies on our screens,
the echo-chamber of fake cut scenes

[megaphone]
We’re living in an age of anti science,
...anti thinking, but pro violence!

[chorus]

I am a Muslim, register me
Strip me, beat me, remove my dignity
I am Mexican, you must deport me
African American, you must report me
I am Transgender, panic and then murder me
I am Poor you can blame everything on me
I am for the public, go ahead, privatise me
I am a woman you can own me then rape me
I am homeless just water-cannon me
I am disabled, now you can bully me
I have a sickness, just uninsure me
I am indigenous, shit on me and steal from me

[megaphone]
I’m a law-abiding shell of a person
Lie to me as the situation worsens.

[chorus]

It’s the last death-rattle of a corporate kleptocracy
cut-string puppets in a billionaire’s democracy
Everyone thought that they were clowning
But money and status means nothing to the drowning
in effluent, excrement and junk technology
Disposable everything — especially you and me
If we fuck this up there won’t be a sequel
Claw back what they stole from the people!

[megaphone/all]
Walls and cages, piss and real estate
Invisible oligarchs, stoking up the hate
Red cap, bump stock, AR-45
Sleepwalking into our final nose-dive

[chorus]