Olly The Octopus - A Call To Arms For Hippies

Available on iTunes on the 14th December or better still you can Pre-order now and bypass
iTunes' cut from:

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£1.50, all profits to MAP (medical aid for Palestines). Single
includes A Call To Arms for Hippies, acoustic track "What is Money Anyway?"
and bonus Bronze Medallists' ringtone. After purchase, an MP3 will be
emailed to you on Monday 14th December in time to fill your digital xmas
stocking!


Credits

Directed and Illustrated by
Adam Butcher
http://www.adam-butcher.co.uk

Cinematography
Alan Tang

Puppeteers
Fran Longhurst
Laura Snoad

Art Department
Alec Milne
Ed Moline
Jack O'Connor

Written, produced, mixed, performed and recorded by Olly the Octopus
Except: Additional engineering by Darren Lawson @ Assault and Battery Studios, Additional backing vocals by Tristram (http://www.myspace.com/tristramsongs) and Brigitte Aphrodite (http://www.myspace.com/brigitteaphroditevousta)
Mastered by Tim @ Fluid Studios.



Lyrics:

It's the year 2009
We are living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don't run for government and politicians don't inhale. (OK, I know Obama did once or something, jees stop being such pedant!)

A long time ago in a time called the 60's,
People thought pop music was going to change the world.
They said things like 'All you need is love',
Took the pregnancy pill, and whatever else they could get hold of,
Bob Dylan went electric, Sgt Peppers was a hit
And people realised they could change the world if they gave a shit!

But people got jaded when Vietnam was invaded,
And Jimi, Janis and Morrison assasinated (fuck, not to mention JFK, Malcom X and Martin Luther King)
By the C.I.A.
That was the day
The music died

Take me back to 1969
When changing the world meant a corny line
Like 'Love Is You Need'
Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or taking LSD at Woodstock
Now it's the year 2009
And again we're living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don't run for government and politicians don't inhale.

Now its forty years later.
Things have been greater.
The sexual revolution left a fishy taste
Of teenage pregnancies in council estates.
And we've still got war.
We've still got famine.
As opposed to getting out your head to The Grateful Dead
People do it now listening to Radiohead instead.

The people are still jaded.
Now Iraq's been invaded.
The Gaza strip's in Israel's grip,
Even Syria's been raided.
Still we tow the line,
Maybe now's the time
To bring the music back to life.

Today everybody's jaded.
The hippies have all traded
Free love in for a stable job and like their bell bottoms they've faded
How did it go this far.
Remember who you are,
And give the music C.P.R.

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[JammehC]

This Song never get's old :')

[OllyTheOctopus]

@JammehC er yes it does... it says 2009 in the chorus, it ages incredibly tangibly. Live I now sing it as: Now we're in the twenty tens we're living in dangerous times again....' ;)

[michalgreenalien]

"Even Syria has been raided" - of course the music will forget to tell you that the object of the raid has been a nuclear reactor. Funny how the reality can't be fitted neatly enough into a protest song.

[OllyTheOctopus]

@michalgreenalien actually iran has the nuclear reactor not Syria. Syria was supposedly harbouring militants near its borders

[JABrinkley]

Hey Olly, saw you tonight at Monkey Chews. Good stuff, keep it up!

[OllyTheOctopus]

jolly good, thanks for dropping by

x

[robtherub]

search, "what if punk never happened"

[JammehC]

@OllyTheOctopus i was actualy thinking about that today and i came up with "now it's the year 2012 and the world is trying to fix itself" :')

[JammehC]

Is there anywhere i can get piano/keybourd sheet music for this? :')

[Heverton484]

Awesome!

[shitzngigglez]

will be playing this song on our radio show today 14/12/11 between 4-6. tudno f m com

thankyou!! excellent song!!

[theredvsbluefan]

CAn't tell if for or against hippies o.o

[Xynos1]

This song is amazing. WHY SO FEW VIEWS?! *shows it to everyone*

[michalgreenalien]

Hmm I still can't post hyperlinks. Well folks, due to the great popularity of my post, I shall offer you an advice: try looking up "Syria 'had covert nuclear scheme'" on BBC. Website.

[jakeknut2]

@michalgreenalien hey, fuck you.