Enter Shikari - Gandhi Mate, Gandhi lyrics

Now, I don't know about you, but I don't
Think the primary purpose of your life
Of my life and the entirety of the human race
Is just to blindly consume to support
A failing economy and a faulty
System forever and ever until we
Run out of every resource
And have to resort to blowing each other
Up to ensure our own survival

I don't think we're supposed to sit by idle
Whilst
We continue to use a long outdated system
That produces war, poverty
Collusion, corruption, ruins our environment
And threatens every aspect of our health
And does nothing but divide and segregate us

I don't think how much military equipment
We are selling to other countries, how
Many hydrocarbons we're burning
How much money
Is being printed and exchanged
Is a good measure of how
Healthy our society is

But, I do think I can speak
For everyone when I say
We're sick of this shit!

Time to mobilise time to open eyes

We are not a quiet pocket of resistance
This is real and we cannot afford to fail
Act with, act with persistence
This is real and we cannot afford to fail

"I am the established order
Respect me and fear me"

Fuck you! We hold no respect
And when tomorrow comes
We’re gonna step on your head! Pig!

Calm down! Calm down, mate!
Calm the fuck down!
Gandhi, mate, remember Gandhi

Alright, alright, I’m fine

"See, if we keep them silent
Then they’ll resort to violence
And that’s how we criminalise change"

Oh, yabba dabba do one, son
We don’t want your rules
Who you fooling son? We’ve got all the tools
We need to build a whole new system
To correct these flaws

"yeah, like what?"

I’ve already listed them

"You’re a communist!
You’re a fucking utopianist!"

Ah, there come the emotive labels
But their attempt just fails 'Cause man
We’re so far out your comfort zone

We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, think, begin to revive
We stop, we think, we begin to revive
We begin to revive
Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Transmit emergency frequencies

Put the call out to the front line
Get the message out to the contact squad
Put the call out, put the call out
Put the call out

Oh, the jigsaw starts to build
Oh, and the jigsaw starts to build
Piece by piece! Open their minds

Transmit emergency frequencies

Open their minds

Transmit emergency frequencies

Emergency frequencies emergency frequencies
Emergency frequencies emergency frequencies