Powerage – Protest To Survive (protesto per sopravvivere)
AGE POWER team was formed in Durban in South Africa in 1981 and was the most famous punk band outside Africa.
Powerage – Protest To Survive EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlKW638GTps
01 – Powerage – stop_apartheid 0:00
02 – Powerage – death dance 1:40
03 – Powerage – adapt or die 4:26
04 – Powerage – freedom 5:27
POWER AGE
Welcome to the power age
Money, money, money
The power age, it’s the new generation
We are the ones with no limitations
We had the iron and the stone
Now we got a new age that we own
But it’s not about the power that makes you blind
It’s all about the the power that’s in your mind
This is the time to get the power
The power age, this is the hour
So let the rythm take you on the floor
To release all the pain that has been before
To get with it, oh yeah, you belong
There’s only one force that makes you strong
Oh, this is the power age
We’re reaching for the final destination
To break out of the cage, get into the power age
With all of the brand new generation
Time to turn the page, we’re living in the power age
Break out of your cage into the power age
The age of destruction, the age of hate
And the age of violence and the ages of late
Greed and gain, that’s all they care
Money, money, money, with enough to share
So get with it, feel the vibration
The power age, it’s just a sensation
You can feel it down in your soul
When you let the force take control
So by now you better know the deal
You gotta get high to get real
Free you mind to disengage
Welcome to the power age
Oh, this is the power age
We’re reaching for the final destination
To break out of the cage, get into the power age
With all of the brand new generation
Time to turn the page, we’re living in the power age
We’re reaching for the final destination
To break out of the cage, get into the power age
With all of the brand new generation
Time to turn the page, we’re living in the power age
This is the power age
This is the power age
Swing it
Swing it
Get into the power age
‘Cause we’re part of a new generation
The power age
Oh, this is the power age
Yeah, the power age
Oh, this is the power age
We’re reaching for the final destination
To break out of the cage, get into the power age
With all of the brand new generation
Time to turn the page, we’re living in the power age
We’re reaching for the final destination
To break out of the cage, get into the power age
With all of the brand new generation
Time to turn the page, we’re living in the power age
First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech, that’s some motherfuckin’ bullshit
You say the wrong thing, they’ll lock your ass up quick
The FCC says “Profanity – No Airplay”?
They can suck my dick while I take a shit all day
Think I give a fuck about some silly bitch named Gore?
Yo PMRC, here we go, raw
Yo Tip, what’s the matter? You ain’t gettin’ no dick?
You’re bitchin’ about rock’n’roll, that’s censorship, dumb bitch
The Constitution says we all got a right to speak
Say what we want Tip, your argument is weak
Censor records, TV, school books too
And who decides what’s right to hear? You?
Hey PMRC, you stupid fuckin’ assholes
The sticker on the record is what makes ‘em sell gold
Can’t you see, you alcoholic idiots
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get
You have the right to remain silent
Fuck that right! I want the right to talk
I want the right to speak, I want the right to walk
Where I wanna, yell and I’m gonna
Tell and rebel every time I’m on a
Microphone on the stage cold illin’
The knowledge I drop will be heard by millions
We ain’t the problems, we ain’t the villains
It’s the suckers deprivin’ the truth from our children
You can’t hide the fact, Jack
There’s violence in the streets every day, any fool can recognise that
But you try to lie and lie
And say America’s some motherfuckin’ apple pie
Yo, you gotta be high to believe that
You’re gonna change the world by a sticker on a record sleeve
Cos once you take away my right to speak
Everybody in the world’s up shit creek
Let me tell you about down south
Where a motherfucker might as well not even have a mouth
Columbus, Georgia, said they’d lock me up
If I got on the stage in my show and said “Fuck”
So I thought for a minute and said “No
I wasn’t even gonna do a damned show”
Cos for me to change my words from my rhymes
Is never gonna happen cos there’s no sell outs on mine
But I vowed to get those motherfuckers one day
They even arrested Bobby Brown and Cool J
Yo, they got their’s comin’, cos I’m mad and I’m gunnin’
Homeboys, and there’s no runnin’
I’m gonna tell you how I feel about you
No bull, no lies, no slack, just straight fact
Columbus, Georgia, you can suck my dick
You ain’t nothin’ but a piece of fuckin’ shit on the damned map
Freedom of Speech, let ‘em take it from me
Next they’ll take it from you, then what you gonna do?
Let ‘em censor books, let ‘em censor art
PMRC, this is where the witch hunt starts
You’ll censor what we see, we read, we hear, we learn
The books will burn
You better think it out
We should be able to say anything, our lungs were meant to shout
Say what we feel, yell out what’s real
Even though it may not bring mass appeal
Your opinion is yours, my opinion is mine
If you don’t like what I’m sayin’? Fine
But don’t close it, always keep an open mind
A man who fails to listen is blind
We only got one right left in the world today
Let me have it or throw The Constitution away
What they’re trying to do with radio, with this, uh, McCarron-Walter
Act and a lot of other ways, is start by saying that they’re
Protecting the public from wicked rock bands, or girlie magazines, or
Whatever. But, if you follow the chain of dominoes that falls down
What they’re really trying to do is shut off our access to information
Itself
If they can’t do it by law they know there’s other ways to do it
Powerage – Freedom (South Africa HC)
Tema tomado del EP “Protest To Survive” de 1985 de la banda de Hardcore Punk sudafricana Powerage.
The National Anthem of the Republic of South Africa
Call of South Africa
Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw’ uphondo lwayo,
Yizwa imithandazo yethu,
Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo.
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso,
O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeho,
O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso,
Setjhaba sa South Afrika – South Afrika.
Uit die blou van onse hemel,
Uit die diepte van ons see,
Oor ons ewige gebergtes,
Waar die kranse antwoord gee,
Sounds the call to come together,
And united we shall stand,
Let us live and strive for freedom,
In South Africa our land.
Powerage – Protest To Survive EP
01 – Powerage – stop_apartheid 0:00 02 – Powerage – death dance 1:40 03 – Powerage – adapt or die 4:26 04 – Powerage – freedom 5:27.
Joan As Policewoman
To Survive
To Survive
sleep now, little one
I’ll sing to you, little one
there’s no one here
who means you any harm
little one
I know what it means to be sad
it never goes
so learn to hold it close
as a friend
‘cause we never know how much we can take
before we break
the spell in our
haunted house
I’ve never felt alone
like I do now, this moment
I don’t belong here at all
must find the spark to go on
little one
‘cause I owe it to us
to tend the fire
and fend off fear
the fear in me
so near to me
it never goes
so learn to let it in
like the rain
‘caause we never know
how much we can take
before the storm breaks
the storm of our wild design
I’ve never felt this way
or maybe I do everyday
what is this gift to be alive?
must find the spark,
the spark to survive.
Powerage — Protest to Survive – The “Stop Apartheid” 7′ EP
[Verse 2]
If the apocalypse started today
Some of us would try to hide
And some of us would cry to God and pray
It’s a dangerous world on a fragile axis
Most of us aren’t prepared if society ever collapses
Major volcanic to earthquake events
Tsunamis swallowing cities
Drown entire populations to death
It could be nuclear, biological or chemical war
Or martial law or we could just run out of oil
Those with major health issues won’t survive
Anyone on dialysis or a respirator device will die
When the power-grid fails for days, weeks or months or years
Think about that possibility with fear
Power failure leads to no food or water
Leading to collapse of law and order
Then massive robberies and slaughters
Riots and looting
Widespread violence and shootings
Gunshot battles
Survivors take rifles and Uzis
[Hook]
I’ll show you how to survive the apocalypse
I’ll show you how to survive the end of the world
[Verse 2]
Having guns ain’t the key to survival though
It is just a piece of a big puzzle
Of course it’s ‘bout what you know
Practical skills are your most valuable tool
Don’t fall into the same trap that most amateurs do
Buy your beans, bullets and band-aids
Cause in the last days money’s worthless
What will matter is what you have to trade
So practice raising a vegetable garden
After the apocalypse you can survive
If you are an exceptional farmer
Old technology could be your salvation
Study how the old world survived before modern civilization
Gaining water food ___ communications
Build weapons and tools that once used to rule nations
Share and watch each others backs
Choose your friends wisely
Increasing the probability of everyone surviving
But most of all build your self alliance
Protect your family
And make sure always be prepared for violence
