freeze Up - OPERATION IVY

Lyrics-
Empty factories to the east and all our waste
The shape of things that came shows on the broken workers face
To the west you'll find our silicon promised lands where
Machines replace our minds for systematic profit plans
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk
Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt
I look for optimism but I just dont know
Its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows

[Chorus]
It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming... [ad libs]

One nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
Plastic and fluorescent energy robbing us of sight
Set in our way content with our decay
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade
Ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell
But no ones there to tell you cuz they dont know that themselves
The well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
No longer offer solace we can see the self destruction

[Chorus]

Just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long
[x2]

Static and division is increasing like a storm,
we are shelter, we are forewarned,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,

There's a freeze up coming... [ad libs]

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[peachgyalmomo]

it's 2011 stand up & take a look around...

[dzizka1]

I started listening to these guys 14 years ago and still dig them just like the first time I ever heard them.

[Madadict]

this song is still relevant 23 years after 1989.

"nothing can be changed except ourselves"

we're still frozen in that we haven't changed a thing.

[FlapJack2812]

@TheSEOUTLAW I somehow doubt you are making a difference to the world when you can't even spell Green, or capitalise your own sentences properly.

[0TheComplications]

@peachgyalmomo It's 2012 stand up and take a look around...

[TheSEOUTLAW]

shut up ska bois and get a real job not everyone can be opiv or gween day, become a cop and change the system. be a fire fighter, be an emt, be a cook, be a pizza boi, be Metallica's bumper biotch. get off your ass and change your stupid world instead of being some ho cho armchair anarchist lazy apathetic fuck. remember be yourself and do your best with it, young punks. Blessed the worms, yer allready dead!!! suckas!

[praxis1966]

@TheJonnyutah That's because Ayn Rand isn't. The only reason her book sales stay up is because her foundation, heavily financed by wealthy industrialists, buys her books en masse and then gives them away... artificially driving up sales numbers. Basically, her entire philosophy relies on a rationalization of unchecked greed because of some inherent supremacy of the up classes. It's complete bullshit, but now that I know that you're a Randroid I can proceed to ignore you. :D

[praxis1966]

@TheJonnyutah But you're right about one thing: Calling them racist is easy because they are.

[praxis1966]

@TheJonnyutah I'm not interested in discussing anything with a group of people that disgusting. When you show up at a rally holding a picket sign that has a caricature of Obama (not that I'm a fan of his conservative ass either but still) made to look like he's in blackface and with exaggeratedly large lips and nose and a gun on your hip, the conversation's pretty much over. By the way, the term "libertarian" in its modern context is a code word for Social Darwinist, FYI.

[jimmiow]

@DoctorSess Still so relevant

[kingster911]

I always only knew little bits of the lyrics since Jesse is such an amazing singer, and sorta got an idea of him talking about this climate of shittiness around him. But now that I read the lyrics here (after listening to the song for eleven years) it is even better than I thought!