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DEAD END STREET (2003)
All words by Øyvind Sarheim

They Speak About Truth

They speak about truth, freedom & democracy
the freedom to oppress,
don't believe a thing you hear, read or see
keep your heart intact, question the purpose of this system, before you grant a fact
what's the premiss, what's needed to maintain
this perverted system
who does it serve, what's its heart & its nerve
pumping the blood through this machinery
to make it survive!

And you believe
that we all can achieve
a rich mans life
well, did you ever have to strive?!

Fuck their reforms & stupid lies
like it's possible, to reform this system
to a better world
when its base is exploitation
driving its creation
brothers & sisters
we've got a history to write;
no more slavery, no more conformity
so many questions to ask to complete this task,
of reclaiming our hearts and minds

and you believe
that we all can achieve
your rich mans life
have you ever had to strive?!

still you believe....


Where Does the List End?

The ruins from a violated world
is driving itself to the end of existence
the voice of resistance, choked by the screams of mass-suggesion
Star spangled sympathy
without actions to question x2

Where does the list end?
U(.)S(.) against them
Blackened eyes versus quicksilver white
will approve the fight
against terrorists brought up by our worlds invite
By murder, plunder destruction
Rape, framing the 1st world in a furious hype!
USA / where freedom is illusion
USA / and hate is the sollution
USA / Oppression is the answer
USA / and free expression is the cancer


Destroy the Machines

The workers strikes again
behind their backs and out of their sight
somethings going down, rip the kings of their crown
cause the wildcats out - back in town

Destroy!
Destroy the machines!
Destroy!
Destroy the machines!
It's time to get out and rally the city!

Sabotage is the mean of our fight
direct action will prove us right
their means, means of production
our mean, our mean is destruction

Destroy!
Destroy the machines!
Destroy!
Destroy the machines!
come on everybody, turn it over tonite!
Destroy the machines

counter-culture will set us free....


Moral Masturbation

Created to preserve private property
norms, laws to keep capital control
religions, ideologies
claiming universal truths
feel clean, feel true, feel sin

forget your needs and life-situation
get ready for moral masturbation
one truth, the rest are hypocrits
told what's right, not why
"don't ever try!"

Fuck laws
Fuck morality
just used to chain humanity
fuck their laws
fuck their rules
nothing else but tyranny

leftist laws, christian laws, state laws
all the same
all led by force and not by heart
punisment in any form will never be the start
punishment in any form will never be the start

Living in insecurity
these limits keeps us down
don't think
just know you're isolated
if you break the lines
let's break out!

Fuck laws! Fuck rules!
greatest rape of humanity
Fuck laws! Fuck rules!
so fed up with this tyranny
so fed up!!!


Common Goal

So fed up with exploiation
so fed up with racism
so fed up with wealth-accumulation
so fed up with inhumanity

we stand united we will never be defeated
a change in history the break of exploitation
forever kept down, forever misled
coming forward for a whole new creation

keeping it strong for the youth of today
keeping it strong for a change of direction
keeping it strong for those who don't have a say
keeping it strong for our brothers & sisters

a change in you can be a change in someone else
one reaction can wake the affection
a treath to one is a treath to us all
come on everybody, let's make it all fall

because it's time to go
let the reactions flow
we play the same role
we have a common goal
common goal

Over & over again!
exploitation in all the lines that history writes
you don't deserve this
I don't deserve this
we don't deserve this
we don't deserve this

Over & over again!
slavery just got a new name
again & again
just a better way to make us pay & conform


WORK! CONSUME! DIE!

Born as slaves
we didn't ask for this
to be thrown in such a world
counted by numbers
next to one another
it doesn't matter if you're one or another

one class - one people
what is it that we can't accomplish
together as one
making decisions for the common good
and not as slaves
for the production-machine

destroying one another
for our own success
our purpose in life, our meaning our strive

WORK! CONSUME! DIE! (our purpose-our strife)
WORK! CONSUME! DIE! (our purpose-our strife)

This is your life
this is your life
this is your life - WORK! CONSUME! DIE!
this is your life - WORK! CONSUME! DIE!
this is your life


It Stole My Heart, It Stole My Mind

“the crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future” - Albert Einstein

I know you strive/to stay alive and get by/your boss exploits you/but you don't know
what to do/the fear infects like the flew/too much at stake/all fucking ache/wonder
when it's 'bout to break/too much at stake/all fucking ache/how do we do it? how
do we get through it?/all our dreams & ambitions became competition/born into this
world/others ideals & claims/it stole my heart/it stole my mind/twisted my sight
& made me blind/it stole my heart/it stole my mind/have we ever lived &bred?/do we
create?/or are the standards set?/this system stole our heart/mind/soul/it stole our
lives/no affection/no, no affection/it stole my heart/it stole my mind/twisted my
sight & made me blind/it stole my heart/it stole my mind/blind yeah...


Anothers Bread..

“work or go hungry! Dominate or be dominated! Compete or perish! Sell the hours of your life away for the means to survive, or rot in poverty-or jail!” - www.crimethInc.com


so you push consumer goods from day to day/feeling righteous/getting yr' honest pay/
last week you caught a thief/felt proud & brave/as servant for some million dollar
company/if you don't have what you want or need then steal it/did you ever ask to
live this way?/shaped & indoctrinated/we believe in this survival tyranny/your
family gave you all you ever wanted/brought you up to take over your fathers' firm
naive you grew to watch a world in wealth/shocked to hear these words I scream/if you
don't have what you want or need then steal it/did you ever ask to live this way
shaped & indoctrinated/we believe in this survival tyranny/this world is more
complex than yours/so attribute your charity & continue your adventure/you chase fame
& luxury/while we strive for survival/hatred/bitterness/grows/from this hell!


Better To Do

Cut down forrests for economical interest
animals tormented - just what economical needs invented
you & I suffer damages
because of all the work we lay down
stribing for recognition; work your way up as the only ambition

slowly fading, becoming part of the wheel
unable to distance ourselves from the race we run
disillusions built up from the day we learnt to walk
(already) passed on to our parents whom as well learnt to
talk their talk

So sick and tired, of 8 hour days & filled up weeks of work
working to accomplish
the status as a good consumer

I don't need your commodities
cause to me they are of no use
I'd rather devote my time for social change for me and my
surroundings

I step aside
this ratrace you run all by yourselves
step aside
this ratrace you run by yourself
keep running, running

I will not devote my life to you
I will not devote my time to you
cause I got better to do
better to do
than devote my life to you


1000 Times Greater Than This

Times are a' changing
but not the standards
you & me brother are working hard
while a few sticks the profit in their pockets
the same system - the same shitty exploitation
yeah they tell you that it's freedom
I know a freedom a thousand times greater than this
yeah they tell you that it's freedom
I know a freedom a thousand times greater than this!

So slow down the work if you can
fill the machines with a handful of sand
yeah, brother, sister, come together
come together we're many more than them

don't let yourself be bossed around
riot's the new & loudest sound
remember your rights
& loyalty to your college and not your boss
don't let them bring you down
keep your self-respect intact
don't show them gratitude for your salory
if they could they would take it all

RISE! RAGE!
we've been their tools for so god-damn long
RISE! RAGE!
break out! let go!


You Can’t Beat the Feeling..Can You?

“faced with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.” - Jovvi Stig-Stig


what's the new sound today?/what sells best today?/rape our creativity/kill our
initiative/entertain our asses of with marked-fitted junk-culture/so popularity
will be our new god/pitiful slaves of the modern entertainment/what grates us?
what is for our advance?/music produced by the production-line/fuck that!/this
sound is ours/these words are mine/let levi's create the new sound/drugging us
down/making us blind/let coca-cola present the new ground/by the production-line
same old story/over & over again/selling our heart/soul/and mind/offer the kids
fully sponsored entertainment/is this the world you want them to grow up in/another
lie/manufactured & mass-produced/created for us to be seduced/music compromised/cut/
& shipped out/fuck that!/no compromise/no plastic lie!/let levi's create the new
sound/drugging us down/making us blind/let coca-cola present the new ground/by the
production-line x2