The Filaments. Look To The Skies

This has been out for two months now and I know it forwards and backwards and inside out. There isn't enough political music these days that I actually want to listen to. I don't know if apathy just reigns supreme at the moment and everyone has given up writing songs. (Don't get me wrong, there is some great stuff going on, ONSIND just recently released a new album.)

Look To The Skies is a fantastic blast of politically charged, articulate punk rock that should resonate with every left wing Clash fan in the UK today. Some of the lyrics are a painfully potent reminder that all is not lost yet. If you have any fight left in you, these are the days you need to be aware, get informed and act accordingly.

Ask No Favours

Some break, some buckle 

But some can’t be tamed 

The might of the British Empire 

Would soon know his name 

With each broken bank vault, his reputation grew 

Never knew how to bow to the lecherous few 

In the tunnels of New York 

His voice echoes far 

Where speaking for labour 

Can find you behind bars 

He roared in defiance 

“The Judge can drop dead in his robes” 

Contempt for the court didn’t even come close 

Justice thunders 

Arise as one all workers 

No more tradition’s chains will bind us 

As we claim what's owed us 

Ask no favours 

Of condescending saviours 

Too long they've fed upon our flesh 

Smothered us for breath 

Colombian oil pays the 16th Brigade 

Who wage war upon the locals 

Like wolves to their prey 

They kidnap and murder, bury in unmarked graves 

A six feet ditch as a warning you don't cause no waves 

They call it ‘quitarle agua al pez' 

They lurk in the euphemism 

These bringers of death 

Where life’s only value is how much you make for the boss 

You don’t keep in line, you won't be no loss 

They offer the yellow, no room for the red 

The power and money, have too long been in bed 

They sanction the torture and more, 

By murder their blood money made 

The profits roll in, as memories fade

Go have a listen at https://thefilaments.bandcamp.com/album/look-to-the-skies