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The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Bigger Cages, Longer Chains
Toxteh riots, England, 1981. During a lull in the action a leftist militant climbs on to a box and addresses the crowd on the subject of the coming socialist utopia. her promise that there will be jobs for all is met with derisory laughter from a group of young rioters. As the speaker details of other reforms, the group begins a mocking chant: "Bigger cages, longer chains! Bigger cages, longer chains!"
"Never work."
- Anonymous -
Hold me down -- cos I don't wanna wait
And I've been blackmail by myself into this state
Shut it up -- cos I don't wanna hear
About old & boring ethics right into my ear
Hold me down -- cos I don't wanna be
Another victim of salvation that is choking me
Set it off -- cos I've had enough
So please, please, please, now baby please shut up
Consider me -- consider this
Empty phrases kissing on, on emptiness
Hold me down -- cos I don't wanna wait
For some unemployment plan to set the record straight
Shut it up -- cos I don't wanna hear
About prospects of redemption by the things we fear
Hold me down -- cos I don't wanna go
Things are moving backwards baby or not at all
Set it off -- cos this is killing me
I'm just waiting for something that will set me free for real
Consider me -- consider this
Empty phrases kissing on, on emptiness
You see now baby how this fire turns to flames
And I kept hoping that things they would change
But now I see that it's up to, it's up to you & me, so
Let's get together, get organized, let set yourselves free
You see now baby how this fire turns to flames
And all they're offering's bigger cages & longer chains
"When someone alse stives & strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I
say that inelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy & intelligence are invoked to
proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men."
- FRANK FANON -
Always acted with suspicion, I've got a bad taste in my mouth
And we all hate to feel rejected, some things we never talk about, yeah!
New borders and new checkpoints and constant need
To define and shut out "the others" from you & me
Cold sweat running down the neck at airport check-ins
Freedom ends and it dies where unions & walls begin
Scribbling cheap shots of small notes, wouldn't call it poetry
But you, you're alive and you're illegal when you just want to be free
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, yeah!
Comes autumn you long for rescue and some good news to comfort
You start hoping but try to make up some reasons not to
Like new treatise of free movement for the choosen few
And in this world of new economy there's just no room for you
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, yeah!
No one's illegal, yeah!
No more nation states
No more borders
I just can't fucking wait, I said
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
You got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, you're so alone, yeah
Got heart, you're full of soul
So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful
Girl you don't know what you are -- to me, to me
You are my baby doll
You are my compass star
You drive me off the wall
Girl you don't know what you mean -- to me, to me
You are my everythin'
You are my alien
From S-p-a-c-e
Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't go
Hey! I just met you
Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't go
Girl I feel just like a bird
Though I am just a nerd
I could fly all the world
With power from this word
Girl you don't deserve these clouds
Fuck reality and doubt
???
???
Girl I'm flying with thee
Roses are red
Yellow & white
Will I keep it all my life
Finds some girl
???
If you leave cos I just met you
Please don't go, please don't go, please don't go
Oh! I just met you
Please don't go, please don't go, please don't go
Please don't go, please don't go, please don't go
Hey! I just met you
Please don't go, please don't go, please don't go
I'm gonna wait till the midnight ???
That's when the love comes thumbeling down, yeah!
I'm gonna wait till the midnight ???
When there's nobody else around
Roses are red
Yellow and white
Will I keep it all my life
Finds some girl
???
If you leave cos I just met you
Roses are red
Yellow and white
Will I keep it all my life
Finds some girl
???
If you leave cos I just met you, yeah!
"The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own
geastures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him. This is why the spectator feels at home
nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere."
- GUY DEBORD -
"People run back and forth in pursuit of pleasure because they sense the emptiness of their lives: not
only the emptiness of each new entertainment which attracts them."
- PASCAL -
I'm all numb in my body baby and I can't feel a thing
And I've been bending over backwards so long, doesn't bother me
I've seen the ad's and I've tried the flavours, yeah I tried it all
This lack of motion and all surface honey makes me want more
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation to come
And I've been losing so much sleep now lately and it doesn't change
My state of unstable stability can be rearranged
Hours spent waiting in coma
I feel nothing real
No anger, no resentment
Not a god damn thig
Lost all love & I lost all feeling
Lost everything, yeah you, you better believe it
Lost all love & I lost all feeling
Lost everything, yeah you
I'm damned & deafened, a lost cause honey, look at what we've done
I understand & I comprehend but I can't get it down
??? look at what we see, yeah, yeah
We're all suffering survival sickness, yeah you & me
Can't deliver satisfaction just a fucking bore, yeah
Hey my baby can't deliver what I'm asking for
Lost all love & I lost all feeling
Lost everything, yeah you, you better believe it
Lost all love & I lost all feeling
Lost everything, yeah you, you better believe it, yeah, yeah, yeah
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation to come
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation
Waiting for salvation to come
Wait, wait, wait for salvation to come
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
"The education of today is nothing more than drill... children must be accustomed to obey, to believe, to think according to
the social dogmas which govern us."
- FRANCISCO FERRER -
Gonna set myself on fire seems to, seems to be the olden rule
Expression's not that easy when you, when you're taught to be a fool
We still stutter when we're talking, haven't, haven't really learned a thing
Downsizing & profitizing will affect our way to think
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
Gonna set myself on fire cos we are jost good for fuel
Spend our lives on banalities seems what we are doomed to do, yeah!
Sacrified for better knowledge, we're put on auction stand
We come as cheap as possible, we're children that you damned
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
There goes the scream of the kids who got, got put in the garbage bin
There goes the scream of the kids who got, got put in the garbage bin
With their heads & their hearts & their arms & their legs
With their heads & their hearts & their arms & their legs, yeah!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
There goes the scream of the kids -- Hey!
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
I can't, I can't remember, can't remember anything
"If you want to stop a person from action, ask him to speak more on this topic. The more people talk, the less desire they
have to act."
- CARLYLE -
Here comes another blank sequel, words are not working, they are not equal, baby...
Ain't it boring to always speak in the same old clichés?
Right now can't be bothered with thinking, rational reasons keep us sinking
You know no syllable can make us feel more real
What do you know
About boredom baby
Is it just another word stolen out of a dictionary? Yeah!
What do you know
About aliennation honey
Yeah, please explain how it feels?
Here comes a little, little sequel, words & structures put us into bleeding, nothing...
Doesn't seem corrupt, recuperated or simply fucked up
Poor excuses my mouth feeds it, these settings of sentiment keeps repeating
Nothing more than restricted meaning
So what do you know?
So what do you know?
So what do you know?
Walking backwards once again
Trying our hardests to understand
So what do you know?
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it so unreal
Here comes another blank sequel, words are not working, they are not equal, baby...
Ain't it boring to always talk in the same old clichés?
Right now can't be bothered with thinking, rational reasons they keep us sinking
You know no syllable can make us feel more real
So what do you know?
So what do you know?
So what do you know?
Walking backwards once again
Trying our hardests to understand
So what do you know?
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it so unreal
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it enough to describe the way we feel or is it so unreal
Is it so unreal
The (International) Noise Conspiracy.
Inge Johansson -- bass & vocals.
Dennis Lyxzén -- vocals & tambourine.
Ludwig Dahlberg -- drums.
Sara Almgren -- guitar, organ & tambourine.
Lars Strömberg -- guitar & vocals.
Jari Haapalainen -- percussion Bigger Cages, Longer Chains, Beautiful So Alone, A Textbook Exemple & When
Words Are Not Working.
Sven-Even Dahlberg -- Rhodes piano on Bigger Cages, Longer Chains.
Björn Yttling -- Hhorn arrangements on Bigger Cages, Longer Chains & When Words Are Not Working.
Jonas Kullhammar & Markus Olsson -- saxophone on Bigger Cages, Longer Chains & When Words Are Not Working.
Backing vocals on Bigger Cages, Longer Chains By Bittersweet (Peder Stenberg, Mattias Lidström & Jonas Lidström).
Bigger Cages, Longer Chains, Beautiful So Alone, A Textbook Exemple & When Words Are Not Working
recorded at the Gröndahl studio May/June 2001 / September 2002.
Baby Doll & Waiting For Salvation recorded at Silence Studios, Koppom, September 2002.
Layout and artwork by Hugo Sundkvist.