Tonight’s The Night Tonight’s the night come rain or shine we party ‘til the day breaks And music flows in spiral waves Freedom from the daily grind, relax, unwind Relish the chance to misbehave And as I watch these burning embers in the fire pit glow There seems no harm in wasting time when it moves so slow Sweat beats down your forehead and your spine begins to tingle Butterflies within you beat their wings And the energy reflects in a rippling effect As people all around you start to sing I stop and think of those we’ve loved and lost along the way I give thanks and celebrate the fact we’re here today Come join me in the moon light come join me round the fire Take my hand and join me as we dance Unified as one we march into the sun Our hearts filled with revelry and romance

Shadows Shadows come to life in the night time round here In the alleyways and office blocks the grey concrete conceals Drug addicts freezing to death and shady business deals There’s folk who make their millions manipulating stock As the common man holds out his hands for pennies breaking rocks The only trees for miles around are in cages in the park You can take your kids to feed the ducks but don’t walk their after dark You live your life in fear because they watch every move you make From a curtain twitching neighbour to surveillance by the state In the supermarket chain there are packages galore They trick you so you think you’re paying less when you’re buying more You’ve got the store club credit card it’s full of special deals They know exactly what you want because they control the way you feel The man who ran the local shop remembers the time Personality and loyalty were valued over price But there’s no time for such sentiments in the modern age Community is dead and we’ve a city for a grave Shadows come to life in the night time round here In the high street shopping centre where the advertisements glare They’ve got everything you’ll never need and cameras everywhere Outside in the traffic jams you can hardly breathe Or see the sky that is the limit for what you could achieve There is no sense of community no sense of pride You would love to spend time with your family but you need the overtime The endless competition has your head spinning around If you carry on like this you’ll wind up six feet under ground In the high rise tower blocks graffiti on the wall Spells out ‘never have I been so high yet felt so very small’ Mum’s down at the bingo and Dad’s out on the piss Blocking out the sad reality of living life like this They would rather have us live in concrete caskets in the sky Always wanting more than those next door and never asking why We are forced to keep the cogs of industry well oiled and clean And to never be a spanner in the works of the machine Consume, obey and die Worship the barcode in the sky It’s been days since I’ve seen sunlight surely something must be done I’d advocate armed struggle but I’m terrified of guns Because life in the big city where you have to watch your Makes us so afraid and paranoid for fear of an attack The kids all carry switchblades and the cops have taser guns Terrorising neighbourhoods some for employment some for fun This is a plea for peace through revolutionary sound The city lights will shine their brightest on the day we burn them down