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2-2-3 FRIDGES

A car per person, will that be the rule
or a private jet for every other fool
and does each home need ten rooms and a swimming pool
and why do we think that two to three fridges are cool?

And these homes with those rooms
where we gonna build them?
and once they are built
how we’re gonna fill them?

We lay claim to human genes
public archives, village greens
and we retreat to our gated communities
with sensors, guards, and closed-circuit TVs
We’re not even surprised why so many fences rise

We just lock ourselves in to lock others out
forgetting like fuck what life is all about
and all the junk we collect are substitutes and fractions
of what we used to call human interaction
We’re not even surprised why so many fences rise

Talk to your neighbours instead of to your telly
think with your heart and not with your belly
the nuts in our heads, are they brains or jelly
why not admit that the rats are too smelly
The rats are too smelly? the rats are too smelly!

When do we start facing the damage we’ve done
when do we stop pretending that in fact there is none
when do we start doing things right instead of wrong
when do we stop pretending we can solve it with a song

Talk to your neighbours
think with your heart
the nuts in our heads...
Rats, they are smelly

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from N​.​O​.​W​.​H​.​E​.​R​.​E, released April 23, 2012
Words & music by Sok/Démereau/Duscombs/Lafourest.
Music inspired by a Mulatu Astatke tune.

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G.W. Sok Amsterdam, Netherlands

G.W. Sok co-founded The Ex in 1979 and was their singer and lyricist for 30 years (www.theex.nl). Since 2009 he is involved in various other projects, such as Action Beat (UK), Zoikle (NL), Cannibales & Vahinés (F), King Champion Sounds (UK/NL), Coddiwomple (F), Oiseaux-Tempête (F), L&S (F). And there's some solo stuff as well. ... more

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