Lowkey - Soundtrack to the Struggle 2 lyrics

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Struggle 2 by Lowkey
Thank you for joining us, Noam
In "Optimism Over Despair", you say
"It seems to me unlikely that civilization
Can survive really existing capitalism"
Would you be able to explain
That statement for us?
Really existing capitalism is what we can see
Described in the press day after day
We read that the major
Banks like, JPMorgan Chase, are increasing
Their investment in fossil fuels -
Including the most dangerous
Like Canadian tar sands
And all of this is quite understandable
On the assumption that the structure
Of our institutions is geared to
Maximising short-term profit and power
Without regard to what might happen to the
World in another twenty or thirty years
But that’s spoke capitally
Well we can't survive that

Is it the economic system v the ecosystem?
How we gonna define deep when
The seas have risen?
How can we define 'woke’
When our sleep's commissioned?
Drowned out by Koch brother bots
How can the people listen?
Can't detoxify as we watch the
Sky fade to grey
The source devoured corporate power
Killed the nation's state
Sophisticated murder defined as innovation
Corporations wine and dine just
To mine the information
Eight men versus humanity, terrorist who
His search engine knows your thought
Pattern better than you
In an environment resentful
Uprising is essential
The horizon is torrential
Thinking silence will protect you
Subject to propaganda that
Terrifies the slumbered
We can jeopardise their cover if
We energise the numbers collectivise or die
Protect your mind or suffer
Life is paradise to some and a
Pair of dice to others

I saw horror in the eyes
Of a tired retired fireman
Knowing he couldn't help a child
Survive the frying pan
When we riot we disquiet the leviathan
Forget Iron Man I've got
An iron lion's diaphragm
My salutations to those with imagination
Doom anticipated and that's no exaggeration
Your flag doesn’t exist
Let me back up that statement
What happens to the nation if the
Queen has a tax haven?
Pushing these buttons you don’t
Need a brave heart
Frontex turned the Mediterranean
To a graveyard
Paperwall will drive you crazy if you let it
Had a mother burying her newborn
Baby in the desert
What's commonsensical is sensible to question
What seems to be a
Lesson is intellectual repression
Rebel against the system that deprived
You of a voice
Rebel against this hell while our
Survival’s still a choice

The state committed suicide
Cannibalised it'self
While the banks treatin' fictitious
Capitol like it's wealth
Your lurid lobby system means
Corruption is legalised
Privatised healthcare, elsewhere people die
Rebellion lives in all those that
Dream of a better way
Refused to be brainwashed with
False visions of yesterday
Choose to afflict the comfortable
And comfort the afflicted
So many choose the opposite
Their spirit contradicted
Bring a child to the world
Where the future seems impossible
Five trillion dollars a year
Subsidising fossil fuels
The truth was in their eyes but you
Shrugged and just turned your back
I watched a family beg for help
While their flat turned to ash
Apocalypse now
We saw our future in that damn building
CEOs loving profit more than
They love their grandchildren
We saw our future in that damn building
CEOs loving profit more than
They love their grandchildren
Not to be concerned about
The future, preferentially
You have to put yourself in
The position of, say, Jamie Dimon -
The CEO of the biggest bank, jPMorgan
Chase as CEO he has, essentially
Two choices one choice is to do exactly
What he's doing - invest direct investments
Into the most profitable outcome
Which happens to to be the most
Dangerous fossil fuels you can
Do that but the other alternative
He has is to resign
And be replaced by somebody else
Who’ll do the same thing
But this is an institutional problem
Not an individual one

Frontex turned the Mediterranean
To a graveyard