A Soundsystem Story

Fell into you, on a rainy afternoon

You were trying to coax a tune from a battered sound system

You said, "We've gotta resist them"

And I had to agree

Cause they were stifling the lives of you and me

Running round and round in circles, searching for ways to be free

So what else could I do?

I joined you on the street.

We marched for miles that day, our smiles disintegrating in the rain

Listened to speeches, wondered if things would ever change

And when the police came and dragged you away

Blood streaming from the cut on your face

I wondered if there really was another way

Or would we remain

Locked in confrontation

With a system

That could never change

I never saw you again.

Now the sound system sits sadly in a corner of my room

It still won't play any bloody tunes

And I think to myself,  we fell in love too soon

Sipping special brew by the light of the moon

Fell in love with liberty, guess we were doomed

To be disenchanted, our dreams left in ruins

Guess it always ends that way.

But I was sitting in my living room the other day

Looking out of my window at the city so grey

Haunted by memories of you, the things you said

I heard your voice so clear, echoing in my head

You said: we're gonna fix up that sound system, make it sing

Cause this time when we fight back, we're going to win.