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Refused

E.P. Compilation


As stated on the cover of the enclosed booklet, the disc you are most likely to find on your right when opening this exquisite plastic trey containing historical musical evidence of punkrock band Refused, that is to say, songs published originally in the context of the mini-cd's, cd-ep's and various compilations now released as a coherent work of art for purposes unknown to the author of this pretentiously overdone back cover text. There.


Circle Pit

We pride ourselves in the integrity of our herds
But words are just words are just words

While the brand you wear is the same as mine
We can't be out if step if we are still in line

One more round -- One more round
We wounld't want to tread new ground
One more round

Another circle drawn for another carbon copy
As we limit ourselves to the flag of our flock

Circle pit mentality -- individ removal
Cut to fit -- for punkrock herd approval

A shepherd vacancy, but don't look to us.
All the phony Beatle mania has bitten to dust

The circle complete in the imitation zone
Find a new king for your throne
Find a new king for your throne

One more round -- One more round
We wounld't want to tread new ground
One more round


Lick It Clean

With my face smashed against the concrete
I kinda find it hard to speak
The inevitable freedom of oppression
And I stay down

Kneel down to our masters
That left us to die
We'll get our taste of freedom
Licking the pavement clean

Obey the truth or suffer the consequence
Smilling face with teeth kicked in
We nod and we move along
We nod as we sing along

Kneel down to our gods
That left us to die
We'll get our taste of freedom
Licking the pavement clean

Give praise to our opportunities
Give thanx with our hands tied
We laugh when patted on the back
And then we died

And I still believe every word -- And all the great heroes
And I still believe every word -- And all the grand promises
And I still believe every word -- And all the stunning progress
And I still believe every word -- And still I stay down

I have nothing
So I get my head kicked in
Won't make a sound
Thanx again


Jag Äter Inte Mina Vänner by Tomas Di Leva and Refused

Djuren, djuren är människor. Katter är människor. Hundar är människor.
Hästar, hästar är människor. Apor är människor. Kossor är människor.
Och människor ska vara vänner, det finns inga "dom" bara "vi". Det finns något vackert i allt som föds.

Jag äter inte mina vänner för dom är en del av mig --
Som jag kan leva med och växa med i all evighet.

Tanken, tanken är människor. Fåglar är människor. Elefanter är människor.
Råttor, råttor är människor. Ormar är människor. Lammet är människa.
Och lammet ska leka med hajar när freden blir mer än ett ord. Det du äter ska döma din själ.

Jag äter inte mina vänner för dom är en del av mig --
Som jag kan leva med och växa med i all evighet.

Hur kan vi vara fridfulla när vi skapar sån misär.
Hur kan vi vara kärleksfulla när vi kärleken förtär.
Låt vara nu. Låt sanningen vara du...

Jag äter inte mina vänner för dom är en del av mig --
Som jag kan leva med och växa med i all evighet.


Voodoo People by The Prodigy

Magic people
Voodoo people


Bullet by The Misfits

Kennedy's bullet ridden body in the street -- ride, Johnny, ride
Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete -- ride, Johnny, ride
Johnny's wife is floundering, Johnny's wife is scared -- run, Jackie, run
Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
Texas is the reason that the president is dead
You gotta suck, suck Jackie, suck

Arise, Jackie O. Jonathan of Kennedy
Arise and be shot down
The dint's gonna be your desert
My cum be your life-source
And the only way to get it is to suck or fuck
Or be poor and devoid and masturbate me, masturbate me
Then slurp it from your palms
Like a dry desert soaking up rain, soaking up sun.


Cheap

In for the kill,
We'll make the final call

In for the kill,
We'll make the final call
Serve you happy, serve you happy,
Glad we're in control

All watered down,
Our rescue leaves you naked
Cure the symptoms,
Then slam the nails down

Cheap excuses
Cheap promises
Cheap lies
Sold you cheap

Cheap excuses
Cheap promises
Cheap lies
Sold you cheap

You can't depend,
We sold you long ago
Provide the cure, provide the laws,
First make you sick

We'll redefine,
All chances gone by call
All spoken, all broken,
Doesn't mean anything at all

Take some more --
And you'll settle for less
Take some more --
And you'll settle for nothing

Cheap excuses
Cheap promises
Cheap lies
Sold you cheap

Cheap excuses
Cheap promises
Cheap lies
Sold you cheap

We'll pay the cost
For all the living that is lost
We'll pay the cost
For all the living that is lost

Arrgghhh.


Burn It

Another page in a history book
Another lie to justify the lands we took
Another page in a history book
Another lie to forget the lifes we took

Another page in a history book
Another lie to justify the lands we took
Another page in a history book
Another lie

History repeats itself
In another second
Generations of exploitations
And we just don't get it

Burn it -- burn this lie down
Burn it -- no more enslavement
Burn it -- burn this history page
Burn it -- just fucking burn it

Human life is still worth less
Than possession of power
And we are slaves of today
Under fascist co-operations

Burn it -- burn this lie down
Burn it -- no more enslavement
Burn it -- burn this history page
Burn it -- just fucking burn it

Another page in a history book
Another lie to justify the lands we took
Another page in a history book
Another lie to forget the lifes we took

Another page in a history book
Another lie to justify the lands we took
Another page in a history book
Another lie to forget the lifes we took

Structured to maintain the awareness
And the civilizations we made
The lands we plundered and the cultures we raped
Were all part of progression

The victims of a capitalist system
Just statistics in history books
That glorify mass murders
And the genocides

What has changed and what have we accomplished
In our strive for equality?
Oppression rules and money controls
In a world were war is still
Economically beneficial
For those in power

In a sexist, (racist), homophobic existence
We still fight for freedom


Symbols

How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?
How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?

How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?
How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?

What better way to oppress us than to make us safe
To make us node in approval to the system we created
Our freedom, our bill of right, just assurance to make us abide
To make us serve their purposes and to serve our time

But I will destroy a system that's build on greed
I will destroy tradition that makes us bleed
I will shut down the power of all those who have lied to me
I will defy their image of what they want me to be

But I will destroy a system that's build on greed
I will destroy tradition that makes us bleed
I will shut down the power of all those who have lied to me
I will defy their image of what they expect me to be

How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?
How come your symbols of freedom only restrict?
How come your symbols of pride to me ain't worth nothing?


Sunflower Princess

The weight of my words is not enough to make up for the words I didnt't say.
I'm sorry, I didn't want to close the door, just afraid to suffocate.
Inside these arms I find confort, I will try not to break another mirror
Cause that would mean I would only break myself.
This body where has it taken, fosaken me, fosaken me. Let me be.
My eyes never felt this sore.
If only had I known more.
Self centered, myself to blame.
Death is fucking you insane.

A selfish boy with fear doubts afraid to let it inside.
I promise myself that I won't break it another time.
No question asked, just answers taken
My guilt, my thoughts, my mind were whose to judge?
I think I need to breathe, to let the door be open
But the only one who is choking me is myself.
Why can't I see that you are the sun, the rain, the fuel I need inside, why can't I see?
I'll try

I won't listen, I'll cry, Sunflower Princess
I won't listen, I'll cry, Sunflower Princess
I won't listen, I'll cry, Sunflower Princess
I won't listen, I'll cry, Sunflower Princess


I Am Not Me

I will choose my diet with care
And like that wasn't enough
I already wrote you a goodbye note
To say farewell to you

Your TV world
Your fake ideals
Your selfish ways
Compromising truth

Nothing has come to an end
I'm so glad I never followed you

Impossible to progress
Burn your flag to possess
The strengh and knowledge that
You repress

I choose my diet with comfort
And like that wasn't enough
I wrote a thank you note
For what you tried to make of me

A prepackaged blueprint
A cut to fit product
Thank you for absolutely nothing

Impossible to progress
Burn your flag to possess
The strengh and knowledge that
You repress

Impossible to progress
Burn your flag to possess
The strengh and knowledge that
You repress

We are just blueprints -- we are just products
Individuality lost in conformity -- I am not me
We are just blueprints -- we are just products
Individuality now means anonymity -- we are not free

We are just blueprints -- we are just products
Individuality lost in conformity -- I am not me
We are just blueprints -- we are just products
Individuality now means anonymity -- we are not free


Everlasting

This one will not change -- turn down that fad again
Complamency -- overcome, overdone
Everlasting -- I've won
No second chance -- it's just begun

This one will not change -- turn down that fad again
Complamency -- overcome, overdone
Everlasting -- I've won
No second chance -- it's just begun

Struck down in convenience, tradition chosen way
Who describes, who decides our ideas of fun?

I will not become
What I despise
I found a reason
Your truths are lies

Directed
Attached
Reason will overcome
The bounds of conformity
We are still waiting

I will not become
What I despise
I found a reason
Your truths are lies

Struggle to overcome
Generations of secondhand liars
Struggle to overcome
The past mistakes

Struggle to overcome
Generations of secondhand liars
Struggle to overcome
The past mistakes

This one will not change -- turn down that fad again
Complamency -- overcome, overdone
Everlasting -- I've won
No second chance -- it's just begun


The Real

The real revolution starts within
The real revolution starts within

Locked down and caged our lives directed
We just can't ignore the real reasons
We are just as much to blame as anyone else
Silent in apathy we won't make a difference

How can we say
That we are not a part of the problem
We are not a part of the problem
That's not true

How can we say
That we are not a part of the problem
We are not a part of the problem

Stereotype values and intoxication
Won't bring about change
There's a reason for the rejection
I feel it in my range

A protest to insufficiency
A purpose to save and heal
A balance to recover
The distorded picture

How can we say
That we are not a part of the problem
We are not a part of the problem
That's not true

How can we say
That we are not a part of the problem
We are not a part of the problem

Words mean nothing
Action is what counts
And when it comes down to it
Don't count me out

Words mean nothing
Action is what counts
And when it comes down to action
Don't count me out


Pretty Face

I try to write every line with perfection
Scarred to constantly remember the violence
The wound you put me through
It never meant the pain to you

Weak one shall continue as weak one
And when it hurts it wont be the last time
Clouded thoughts make it harder to fly
Your pornographic dream is a lie

This pretty face
This pretty face
This pretty face

Suppose I could oppose the role that you set for me
The object you tried to make of me
But this time I will just close my eyes
Bite my lips and try not to cry

Point that gun at your own head
Kill this male ego dead
Constantly fueled, constantly fed
Watch this beautiful skin turn red

This pretty face
This pretty face
This pretty face

Your constant abuse
Your constant comments
Your constant date rapes
And constant drive

Your constant abuse
Your constant comments
Your constant date rapes
And constant drive

To destroy... This pretty face


Half Mast by Born Against

When freedom is in hiding from morality
When you finally scrubbed this great land clean
Of those values you held in such high esteem
When you finally divorced the numbers from the names

We can return to your good old days
Bound and gagged by sex and race
Chained by familly, crazed by god
While we...

Raise the flag
Shout down the past
Stars and stripes
Stream by at half mast
Your eyes well up with tears
And yeah, so do mine

I never knew
The high price of hypocrisy
So pledge alliegiance to the death penalty
Believe in your drug war
Bow down to the TV set
You need to cultivate that apathy
That swell inside your throat
That swell inside your throat

Raise the flag
Shout down the past
Stars and stripes
Stream by at half mast
Your eyes well up with tears
And yeah, so do mine

Half mast dehumanized
Half mast divided
Half mast overloaded
Half mast who the fuck cares...

As long as you can sleep well under the iron fist


Perception

Pacifying, Uneducating
What did you learn on TV today?

Network and media controlling the masses
Feeding us lies made up to be true
By abusive use reality can be twisted
Into the reality that fits us today
Cause we never doubt the genuinity of the things told us
We follow their rules as hypnotized fools
No question asked but the answers are all given
And who sets the rules -- who sets the rules?

It serves us ideals
Fashion and prejudice

Pacifying, Uneducating
What did you learn on TV today?
What better way to learn about life
Glamorizing death but hiding the real facts
And it's worth for us to see through their eyes
But we can see so much more
Than their selective, subjective flow of information
No question asked but the answers are all given
And who sets the rules -- who sets the rules?

We never question --
The integrity of the faces
We never question --
The intention behind
We never question --
The stories told us
We never question --
Cause we just follow blind

Pacifying, Uneducating
What did you learn on TV today?


Who Died???

Simple solution
Rejected for a change of views
I'm just evolving
I'm not better than you

I've changed -- you said -- I said -- It's sad

You don't accept
The things that I believe
It will bleed
Cause I still feel

I've changed -- you said -- I said -- It's sad

Too bad you didn't see
The other side of me
Losing you it really hurt me
I'm not superior
I'm just a human being
So losing you it really hurt me
Cause you didn't take the time to see..
Cause you didn't take the time to see..
Cause you didn't take the time to see..


The New Deal

Nazi propaganda, another lie
You don't get it, never did, never will
Try to deny events of history
So blinded by your white pride that you don't see
Excuses, excuses to cover up the facts
You're blindfolded. Too scared to look back
The fake empire is on the rise
But most people don't care and they don't open up their eyes

If you make up a lie
And sell it big enough
Some people will buy
Cause they are stupid enough

We gotta stop this hate
We gotta end this trend
We gotta stop this hate
We gotta end this trend

The silent majority, too scared to see
That fear and aggravation only bring violent ways
Cause when foreign hostility is at it's peak
People seem to go for the easy answers
In this time and age it is easy to create
A "new" wave or movement that inspires hate
A trend of dividing, just right in time
When immigration, overpopulation is on everyone mind

If you make up a lie
And sell it big enough
Some people will buy
Cause they are stupid enough

We gotta stop this hate
We gotta end this trend
We gotta stop this hate
We gotta end this trend


Guilty

We are not -- We are not in need
We are not -- We are not in need
We are just too comfortable to care
We are just too comfortable to change

We are not -- We are not in need
We are not -- We are not in need
We are just too comfortable to care
We are just too comfortable to change

How can we say not guilty?
How can we plead
That we're not responsible?
That we're just satisfying our need
But who does it really satisfy?
A fucking industry
That promotes murder, destruction
And brutality

We lost our compassion
Lost our consciousness
We lost our respect for life
In this age of death

How can murder be justify
And extinction legal?
In the name of progress and profit
We've chosen our fate
Cause as long as we continue to support
This killing technology
We'll have only ourselves to blame
When the world's coming to an end

We lost our compassion
Lost our consciousness
We lost our respect for life
In this age of death

We lost our compassion
Lost our consciousness
We lost our respect for life
In this age of death

We are not -- We are not in need
We are not -- We are not in need
We are just too comfortable to care
We are just too comfortable to change

We are not -- We are not in need
We are not -- We are not in need
We are just too comfortable to care
We are just too comfortable to change


Hate Breeds Hate

Foundation of a nation build on fucking lies
Another welfare state tumbles and dies
System of oppression in the land of the free
Your equality and freedom means nothing to me
The rich pulls the strings of the politicians
To the voice of the poeple no-one is really listening
I thought it was called democraty
I don't think you know what the word means

Hate breeds hate
Hate breeds hate, breeds hate, breeds hate

People going crazy hunting their goals
Struggling to the top without any control
I see the green illusion developing greed
Overcoming common sense and what we really need
Diseases spreading all across the land
Crack kills so does guns in their hands
American interference in yet another war
Do the public know what the fuck for?

Hate breeds hate
Hate


Break

You say the problems don't concern you
Well, wake the fuck up cause they really do
How many ways are society going to fuck it up?
How many lies until we had enough?

We gotta start to care about the consequences
Take a look around, it doesn't make any sense
Pollution, oppression, violence and destruction
Lies, deceit, poverty and corruption

Our ignorance has made us blind
To the problems that we are facing
Our indifference, our tolerance
Makes me sick

Our ignorance has made us blind
To the problems that we are facing
Our indifference, our tolerance
Makes me sick
Our ignorance has made us blind
To the problems that we are facing
Our indifference, our tolerance
Makes me fucking sick

Indoctrinate lies
Covering our eyes
Mold us into the mainstream
Taking our lives

We've gotta break these chains
We've gotta break these chains
We've gotta break these chains

Our ignorance has made us blind
To the problems that we are facing
Our indifference, our tolerance
Makes me sick
Our ignorance has made us blind
To the problems that we are facing
Our indifference, our tolerance
Makes me fucking sick


Where's Equality

Look at the differences we've created
Marked, branded thought to be hated
Biological differences can't imply violence
But mindless and indoctrination can
Values maintained and held through time
Force fed upon our weak minds
Yesterday's segregation is still a truth
Equal values, no way

You say that thing are different --
No, no it's still the same
You say that thing are different --
Some things dont ever fucking change

Some say we have an equal society
No, no it's not the way I see
When people are oppressed for their sexuality
And AIDS is still a "gay" disease
When women don't have the right to choose
Cause it's against church morality
Then how can we say
How can we claim
That we have equality?

You say that thing are different --
No, no it's still the same
You say that thing are different --
Some things dont ever fucking change

Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?
Where's equality?


Soft

Too much degradation -- I'm going to tell the truth
I'm going to spit it out -- bring it out -- twist the chords
Too much bullshit inflicted -- too many stories told
I'm so fed up with lies -- I'm just so fed up -- no more

I'm not going soft like you
I'm not going soft like you
I'm not going soft like you
I'm not going soft like you

Too much pressure taken -- you've lost the cause
You lost your self-esteem -- your conscious mind
I'm still in touch with reality -- I'm still going to fight
I'm infrangible -- I am still here

I'm still here -- I'm still hard
I'm still here -- but you've gone soft

You've gone soft, you've gone soft
You've gone soft, you've gone soft

The EDGE hasn't gone dull
The EDGE hasn't gone dull
The EDGE hasn't gone dull
The EDGE hasn't gone dull


I Wish

I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I -- could pick myself up

Trapped imprisoned, I know no other way to be
No matter how hard I try I'm never going to be really free
Surrounded by lies, try to hold my integrity
Searching for a higher goal, trying to find the real me

I wish that I, I wish that I
Could change my values and ignore the hate inside
I wish that I, I wish that I
Could put the pieces back and make another try
I wish that I, I wish that I
Could change my values and ignore the hate inside
I wish that I, I wish that I
Could put the pieces back and make another try

Being dragged down in this ocean of fools
Their golden horse god, obey the master, money rules
Try ro reach the surface but my emotions drag me down
I can't control myself, my rage makes me drown

I wish that I, I wish that I --
Could change my values and ignore the hate inside
I wish that I, I wish that I --
Could put the pieces back and make another try
I wish that I, I wish that I --
Could change my values and ignore the hate inside
I wish that I, I wish that I --
Could put the pieces back and make another try

I try, I try, I try to look beyond the whole
It's time to realize there's gotta be something more
In acts of selfishness we tend to ignore
What we really are living for


D.R.S.S. by Afro Jetz

Skatting down on my Suicidal skate
Down to the town the pigs await
They'll never catch me I'm too cool
Make them look like stupid fools

Dirty rotten skate society
Dirty rotten skate society
Dirty rotten skate society
Dirty rotten skate society


Refused.
Dennis Lyxzén.
David Sandström.
Kristofer Steen.
Jon Brännström.

Tracks 1,2 & 4
Tracks 3 & 5
Track 6
Tracks 7 to 13
Track 14
Tracks 15 & 16
Tracks 17 & 18
Tracks 19 to 24
Recorded at Tonteknink Dec-95 by Pelle & Eskil.
Recorded at Sunlight Feb-96 by Tomas Skogberg.
Recorded at Dunkers May-95 by ourselves.
Recorded at Sunlight July-94 by Tomas Skogberg & Fred Estby.
Recorded at David's basement June-94 by ourselves.
Recorded at Sunlight Oct-93 by Tomas Skogberg & Fred Estby.
Recorded at Holmsund Aug-93 by Kent Remember
Recorded at Hortlax HC studio Feb-93 by Pelle Gunne.

Track 1 to 4 taken from "Rather be dead E.P.".
Track 5 previously unreleased. Track 6 taken from "Straight edge as fuck Vol. 2 compilation".
Track 7 to 14 taken from "Everlasting".
Track 15 & 16 taken from "Nortcore: the polar scene compilation".
Track 17 & 18 taken from "Pump the brakes".
Track 19 to 24 taken from "This is the new deal".

All songs written by refused except those with a mention.
Dennis & David are on all the songs.
Kristofer Steen appears on tracks 1 to 13.
Jon Brännström plays on tracks 1 to 5.
Tomas Di Leva sings on track 3.
Magnus Höggren hung out on tracks 3 & 5.
Magnus Björklund solidified all tracks but 3, 5 & 14.
Pär Hansson's guitar had it's way with tracks 17 to 24.

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