Let Them Eat Chaos QUOTES

1 " She wipes her forehead with her wrist
She's just back from a double shift
Esther's a carer
doing nights

Behind her
on the kitchen wall
is a black and white picture
of swallows in flight

Her eyes are sore
her muscles ache
she cracks a beer
and swigs it

She holds it
to her thirsty lips
and necks it
till it's finished.

It's 4:18 a.m. again.
Her brain is full
of all she's done that day
She knows
that she won't sleep a wink
before the sun
is on it's way.

She's worried about the world tonight.

She's worried all the time.
She don't know how
she's supposed
to put it

from her mind . . .

- Europe is Lost "

― , Let Them Eat Chaos

3 " Europe is lost
America lost
London is lost
And still we are clamouring victory.

- Europe is Lost "

― , Let Them Eat Chaos

5 " Coz it’s big business, baby,
and its smile is hideous.
Top-down violence.
Structural viciousness.

Your kids are doped up
on prescriptions and sedatives.
But don’t worry 'bout that, man,
Worry 'bout
terrorists.

The water level's rising!
The water level's rising!
The animals -
the polar bears
the elephants are dying.
STOP CRYING START BUYING!!

But what about the oil spill?

Shh.
No one likes a party-pooping spoilsport.

Massacres massacres massacres/new shoes
ghettoised children murdered in daylight
by those employed to protect them.
Porn live-streamed to your pre-teens bedrooms.
Glass ceiling. No headroom.
Half a generation live beneath the breadline -
oh but it's Happy Hour on
the high street!

- Europe is Lost "

― , Let Them Eat Chaos

7 " Every day I've lived
lives in the day
I wake up in.

- Ketamine for Breakfast "

― , Let Them Eat Chaos

9 " The wrongs of our past have resurfaced
despite all we did to
vanquish the traces
my language is tainted
with all that we stole to control and erase and replace
in a country still rich with the profits of slavery.
As yet, there's been no reparations.

- Europe is Lost "

― , Let Them Eat Chaos