freeze Up - OPERATION IVY
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2009
- Lyrics-
Empty factories to the east and all our waste
The shape of things that came shows on the broken workers face
To the west you'll find our silicon promised lands where
Machines replace our minds for systematic profit plans
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk
Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt
I look for optimism but I just dont know
Its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows
[Chorus]
It's 1989 stand up and take a look around
Weathers bitter tension it seems is sinking down
Drunk with power and fighting one another
Every hour shows the winter getting harder
There's a freeze up coming... [ad libs]
One nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
Plastic and fluorescent energy robbing us of sight
Set in our way content with our decay
We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade
Ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell
But no ones there to tell you cuz they dont know that themselves
The well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
No longer offer solace we can see the self destruction
[Chorus]
Just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long
[x2]
Static and division is increasing like a storm,
we are shelter, we are forewarned,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,
nothing can be changed except ourselves,
There's a freeze up coming... [ad libs]
theres a pizza coming!
this song is still relevant 23 years after 1989.
"nothing can be changed except ourselves"
we're still frozen in that we haven't changed a thing.
This is one of those albums that are timeless, meaning they apply to every age of society. Another way to say it is that Operation Ivy's lyrics can be applied to our lives no matter our situations.
2024 anyone?
played bass in a band in high school... we covered this, take warning, and the crowd. man i havent listened to op ivy in years. what the hell was i thinking?! brings me right back to those good ol days.
"Set in our way content with our decay, We wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade"
2023 still here
I'm listening to this in 1977.
If you are reading this in the future then get off your flying cell phone scooter and think
There's a pizza coming
Back in the day when Subway punched 5 of the 6 slots on your card:
Just one political song, just one political song.
I always only knew little bits of the lyrics since Jesse is such an amazing singer, and sorta got an idea of him talking about this climate of shittiness around him. But now that I read the lyrics here (after listening to the song for eleven years) it is even better than I thought!
My favorite Operation Ivy song...and still dangerously true-to-life...
Do not think this song has ever been more relevant then today
one of op ivys exceptionally great jams
NOTHING can be changed except ourselves.
Ditto. First heard these guys around 1990 when i went to college. They still rock 23 years later.
this should play on the radio!!!! crazy how this band broke up definitly my fav from back in the day love em way more then rancid
I was listening to this song when my computer crashed. IRONY???????????????