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Surviving Progress

from Free Radicals by Primeval Soup

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Surviving Progress

Back in the day when the children played in the rivers and the seas
With no birth defects from toxic waste, no man made disease
And the people gave respect, allowed time to reflect
On what we eat and drink and breathe

But hold on that makes sense

Have we come so far that when we look to the stars it’s for national defence
And this culture of death and those it protects carries on the pretence
That pesticides and weaponry are in our best interests
Destruction of the land goes hand in hand with what we call progress

When everybody thinks the same conspiracy’s unnecessary
We detach from the land whilst making demands that it must sustain our needs
Exploitation, privatisation
Coca-colonisation, civilisation

But wait a minute what’s all this for?

If it’s come to this that just to exist we need control and war
When every fist that tries to resist gets locked behind closed doors
Weigh up the so called benefits of our society
With the only trees your kids will see will be in cages in the city

Think of the land how it used to be
With forests dense and rivers free
When people lived sustainably
Taking no more than they needed
Nature worked in harmony
With indigenous community
Part of the ecology
Not of an economy

So if we’re to move forwards or some might call it back
If the best defence is an offence then it’s clear we must attack
I don’t have all the answers but I think it’s only fair
To leave future generations with clean water and clean air

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from Free Radicals, released July 6, 2013

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Formerly Brighton's longest running and laziest anarchoprogdubskapunkfuckyou band. Now residing all over the shop in the good, clean and honest south of England. Keeping it vaguely real since 2009.

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