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To Serve Man

by The Minority

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The stage’s been set The crowd’s assembled fast Looking for a new sensation The critics and the fans Stand with drinks in hand Joined in eager conversation The present and the past The rumors and the facts The ever-changing expectations This is not a test A soundcheck or a sketch This is punkrock education We don’t pretend to have the answers But we intend to find the truth We stand here with a thousand questions And not a single ounce of proof The stage’s been set The crowd’s assembled fast Looking for a new sensation The critics and the fans Stand with drinks in hand Joined in eager conversation The present and the past The rumors and the facts The ever-changing expectations This is not a test A soundcheck or a sketch This is careful preparation Anything worth doing, is worth doing ride Buy the ticket, take the ride Anything worth doing, is worth doing ride Buy the ticket, take the ride
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Why do we fear the ones that represent us Why do we believe they have the right to keep us Keep us down And tell us only what they want to We are to blind to see the smokescreens they deploy We even let them shoot the messenger We volunteered to be enslaved In exchange for nothing more and nothing less Than bread and games Tell me how, in this age of information We cannot even tell the truth apart from fiction When in the end It is all there for the taking But so far we haven’t even scratched the surface Is it ‘cause we are afraid of what we’ll find? We volunteered to be enslaved In exchange for nothing more and nothing less Than bread and stupid games
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Generation nothing The ones that have it all Except for something to believe in Something to fight for More money, no problems Only wanting more ‘Cause image is everything Is what we’ve been told What were we thinking What do we know Peace, love and happiness Can’t be bought in a store Time to wake up now Time to open our eyes Time to open our hearts And start using our minds This is not a song This is what we believe The air that we breathe The truth that we seek This is not a song It’s the life that we lead The dream that we dream Before we fall asleep This is not a song This is our gift to you Time to wake up now Time to open our eyes Time to open our hearts And start speaking our minds
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Just look at me, I’m right here standing on the rooftop I never thought my life would turn out quite this way I lost my job because of a financial crisis, that I didn’t cause And now I’m broke, with all these bills to pay Just look at me, I’m right here standing on the rooftop I can see exactly where I used to live Without a job I could no longer pay the mortgage, bills were stacking up And before long they took my house away All my life I’ve worked from 9 to 5 To earn a dollar and some pride Did everything society expects But then some asshole had to go And roll the dice at our expense And we lost everything we ever had So look at me, I’m right here standing on the rooftop I never thought my life would end up quite this way But then my wife, she left and took away our daughter, Something snapped inside of me Guess that was more than I could take All my life I’ve worked from 9 to 5 To earn a dollar and some pride Did everything society expects But then some asshole had to go And roll the dice at our expense And we lost everything we ever had I’m not the kind of guy to flee From my responsibilities But I don’t see a way out of this mess I’m pretty sure that when I die There’ll be no taxes, no more crisis Here I lay these tired bones to rest
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The more you know the less you feel So cynical ‘bout old ideals Only a fool is certain of anything he has seen I question everything Fear not growing old Fear complacency Question everything Question everything Our anger keeps us going Question everything Our anger keeps on growing Question everything Our anger keeps us going Question everything Our anger keeps us sane Question everything Question everything Question everything Question everything Question everything
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The walls we build around ourselves Are turning into prison cells Our strength is now our weakest point There’s only one way out Everyone has their ghosts Tonight I’m facing mine There’s no way back, there’s no return Wounds will heal in time Only scars remain Wear them all with pride They tell the story of my life Read between the lies Drenched in guilt we try to hide We scream our fears into the night The star-lit sky that lights our fight Sole witness to our cries Everyone has their ghosts Tonight I’m facing mine There’s no way back, there’s no return Wounds will heal in time Only scars remain Wear them all with pride They tell the story of my life Read between the lies We have to risk it all Before we take the fall Find strength in letting go Of the things you love the most We have to risk it all Before we take the fall There’s strength in letting go Of the things you love the most
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The time has come to take a chance One giant step, a leap of faith To do this just for me And I don’t need approval for The things I do or don’t in life ‘Cause it’s all mine The time is now. Let’s do this right for once Right from the start, start of the fight I fight alone And I don’t need protection Because I know my demons well ‘Cause they’re all me This is a declaration of Personal independence, not A celebration of the self Just breaking free
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You’re not a fallen idol, but A hero who fights for a cause long lost A poster boy for the downfall of A system that blew itself up So you want to be saved? You’re on your own Don’t count on us We know who you are You’ll try to take us down with you You’ll get what you deserve You thought you were the smart one Though we tried to warn you years ago We all pay the price for your arrogance And you come back asking us for more So you want to be saved? You’re on your own Don’t count on us We know who you are You’ll try to take us down with you You’ll get what you deserve
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Don’t say you never saw it coming Don’t say you’re not the one to blame Don’t say it wasn’t your decision You chose to look the other way You didn’t want to make the change And now it’s probably too late Watch the world go to waste You didn’t want to lose your game So now we lose what could’ve been saved Watch the world go to waste
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With logic as king in science we trust With money as god compassion is lost Buying fake ideals we’ve sold ourselves out All for some profit: in debt and in doubt When cornerstones and common sense are replaced by numbers and graphs Can no longer count on our government drones to do the math With logic as king in science we trust With money as god compassion is lost Buying fake ideals we’ve sold ourselves out All for some profit: in debt and in doubt Now privacy and innocence are replaced by dollars and cents Our lives have been sold to the corporate whores, you do the math With logic as king in science we trust With money as god compassion is lost Buying fake ideals we’ve sold ourselves out All for some profit: in debt and in doubt
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released August 16, 2020

All tracks recorded, mixed and mastered by Gijs 'Geluid' Oomkes.

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The Minority Netherlands

‘We will reclaim the airwaves of the world’

This line sums up what THE MINORITY stands for. We are creating the music we love, and singing about issues we talk about over drinks late at night or over coffee in the morning. We try not to be that silent majority we all loathe.

With (ex-)members from: 1000 Miles Ahead, Progress, The Retreat, Ten Threats and The Indoor Park.

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