There was electricity in the air and the people weren't scared,
our strength grew in numbers and our captors were well aware.
After standing our ground and taking back our squares, one by one:
We all burst out to be free!
Collectively we assembled out for debates to reconquer the management of our fate.
Everyone had their say on the 15th of May!
The time for change was then. The paradigm needed:
Revolutionaries, loud & proud!
But the tide of oppression grew, the overthrow overdue, and the monopoly of violence of the statu quo, firmly held in their grasp, beat us down.
One by one we fell.
Tell me: Did we make a change?
All those things we'd said and done tell us where the fuck they've gone. It's as if though they'd never existed. It's all over now.
Tell me: Did we fight for the freedom that was ours since the start?
Or did we run and hide, and then passively take part?
Once again: How much is enough? How far will you go?
The time for change was then. The paradigm needed revolutionaries.
El ambiente era electrizante y el pueblo no estaba asustado, nuestra fuerza crecía en número
y nuestros captores eran conscientes.
Tras mantenernos firmes y tomar nuestras plazas, una a una:
Todos estallamos por ser libres.
Debatimos colectivamente en asamblea para reconquistar el control de nuestro destino.
Todo el mundo tuvo voz el 15 de mayo.
Ese era el momento para el cambio. El paradigma precisaba:
Revolucionarios, ruidosos y orgullosos!
Pero la marea opresiva creció, el derrocamiento se retrasó, y el monopolio de la violencia del statu quo, firmemente en su poder, nos derribó.
Y uno a uno caímos.
Dime: ¿Cambiamos algo?
Todas esas cosas que dijimos e hicimos dinos dónde mierdas están.
Es como si nunca hubieran existido. Y ahora todo se acabó.
Dime: ¿Luchamos por la libertad que fue nuestra desde el principio?
¿O huímos y nos escondimos, y luego, pasivamente, formamos parte?
Una y otra vez: ¿Cuánto es suficiente? ¿Cuán lejos estáis dispuestos a llegar?
Ese era el momento del cambio. El paradigma precisaba: Revolucionarios.
My all time favourite band. They stick to a simple formula their whole career and have mastered it in such an un parralelled fashion.
Awesome people when I met them in Newcastle, Australia in 2010 as well.
All hail the punk kings deehall666
The Minneapolis band add a horn section, a running surrealist allegory about walls, and an occasional nod to the elegiac to their electroshocked post-punk. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 4, 2024