Total Football

Album: Wide Awake! (2018)
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  • We are conductors of sound, heat and energy
    And I bet that you thought you had us figured out from the start
    We are conduits of clear electricity
    Now you're back on the pitch to take the apparatus apart

    You're an ancient now
    You're an ancient now
    You're an ancient now
    On your own

    Rebels
    Teachers
    Strikers
    Sweepers
    Better
    Protected
    Whenever
    Collected

    We are troubled by your soft curiosity
    But delighted to be anti everything you were taught
    Are you put off by our footloose fluidity
    Have your hurt caucasian feelings left you so distraught?

    Are you quite done now?
    Are you quite done now?
    Are you quite done now?
    Not at all

    Workers
    Authors
    Poets
    Stoppers
    Power
    Resembled
    If we are
    Assembled

    Only through those
    Who stay awake
    Can an institution
    Be dismantled
    It is dishonest
    Nay a sin
    To stand for any anthem
    That attempts to drown
    Out the roar of oppression

    Hesse total football
    Twombly total football
    Tzara total football
    Mina total football
    Panthers total football
    Kobra total football
    Dada total football
    Beatles total football

    Swapping parts and roles
    Is not acting, but
    Rather
    Emancipation
    From expectation
    Collectivism and autonomy
    Are not mutually exclusive
    Those who find discomfort
    In your goals of liberation
    Will be issued
    No apology
    And fuck Tom Brady Writer/s: Andrew Savage, Austin Bradley Brown, Maxwell Savage, Sean Yeaton
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Ptduff from IndySteve, do you mean "groupthink collectivism" like mindless Trump supporters are so fond of?
  • EmFunny for Steve to comment that when the song pretty explicitly points out the toxic collectivism of standing for an oppressive anthem simply because you were told to do so.
  • Chris from TucsonIt’s pretty explicitly stated in the song that individuality and collectivism both have merit, hence the line, “collectivism and autonomy are not mutually exclusive”
  • SteveHard to get behind this, as I'm for individuality, not groupthink collectivism as displayed so much by far left protestors.
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