Cancel Freedom (feat. Patrick MacDonald)

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Don't you dare look down on me
You don't want to know about suffering
When I sing for a world that could be
You say that it's futile to change a thing
Sit back in your chair
With the apathy stare
And believe so strongly in nothing

You loved seeing The Clash in the 70s
But look what happened when you got yourself a mortgage and a family
If Strummer were making waves today
I'd no doubt hear you say
That bloody do-gooder's a pinko and a commie
It's "cancel culture" when you disagree
But if it aligns with you then it's freedom of speech
You won't be caught out by those deceptive mouths
But continue to smirk
At those languishing in the dirt

Oh this world is so complex
But your attention span's less than 5 minutes
All that education
Worldwide access to information
You've squandered it
On the mental gymnastics
Picking apart the semantics

Don't you dare look down on me
When I sing for a world that could be
Don't you dare look down on me
When that smug, stiff upper lip
Is wrapped around a polished boot tip
Deep in the sand
Screaming that we wanna cancel freedom

So long as you're on the winning tribe
Who cares about anyone's right to life
When you fall so short of seeking any truth
You pick out the lies most convenient to you
To perpetuate a brittle worldview
You have so little at stake
It's easy to pretend everyone else's problem is fake
Comprehending the facts
It seems is too much to ask
The sound bites relieve your fear
But it's so much more complicated than that

Why is it all you achieve
Are the tears of those who disagreed?
But when it comes your turn to cry
There'll be someone better off who laughs
Suck it up and get it by
Yet even as everything you've worked for goes down the drain
You'll still find people less fortunate than you to blame
How did you think that this world ever changed
If every person stepping up to make a difference were all the same?

Don't you dare look down on me
When I sing for a world that could be
Don't you dare look down on me
When that smug, stiff upper lip
Is wrapped around a polished boot tip
Deep in the sand
Screaming that we wanna cancel freedom

The billionaire you'll never be is the one true God
You're closer to the streets that you'll ever know
As you dismiss these politics as just for show
Won't you realize
When you screech don't politicise
It's just another excuse to throw the blinkers on your eyes...?

Bathe in that sweet cognitive dissonance
Buying into every manufactured culture war
Hiding behind your picket white fence
Spitting on everything you used to stand for
A world at your feet yet refusing to learn
As ordinary people are risking their lives
Watching two generations burn
Freedom is canceled: I'm all right Jack, I've got mine
Cancel freedom

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