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GARLIC

by The Shabbab

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    Forged by fire and steel, this polyphonic pirouetting audio disc follows in similar footsteps as its Mediterranean staple ingredient namesake - it's strong and keeps the vampires away.

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1.
running away from an apartheid state i found myself in that colony and its a beautiful, beautiful place to be (in) but it doesn't let many go in especially not the one in need like the victims of its own wars overseas you stole that land and locked the gate you stole that land and tony is gonna die tonight running away from an apartheid state I found myself in that colony and its a beautiful, beautiful place to be (in) but the colony choose to ignore the people who were here before it doesn't try to understand the real owners of this place
2.
everybody's talking about a problem sounds like they talking about you and me i hear the fear in their voices as we farewell white hegemony they call me immigration flood i am a terrorist attack i'm why your father lost his job and i got pockets full of drugs and we keep coming we keep coming but don't worry mate we wont do to you, what you did to the indigenous of this land i see all those red worried faces as colour fills up the street i hear all their dumb reasons why this is not the place for me
3.
Needle 01:49
blood dripping all over my bed i picked up the needle again just cant think of something better to do it's so cold here and i'm so far away from a place i don't like but it runs in my veins so i had to pick up the needle again here i am i picked up the needle again i'm high and i'm down and it isn't much better all i want is to be helen keller just cant think of someone better to be now i'm locked in a cave and my body is aching the rewind button just doesn't working so i had to pick up the needle again
4.
Big Brother 03:23
yeah, i made it to the free world i feel like a movie star but the government is the paparazzi yeah, they got cameras all around those inspectors look like cops and the cops look way too armed soldiers are box inside a drone and there's a spy inside your phone they make you live in fear so you put your head down and serve a system that is not meant for you brother, you got a big brother there's a big brother watching you they said something about terror but it's your government who terrorise you!
5.
the emperor is naked the empire is corrupt your eyes are wide open but your mouth is shut you in a safe place you don't mind to die young but it's time to wake up time to see the lie someone desex the president, please and set us free the emperor is naked in the city square he thinks he got us in his pocket but the time has changed we gotta save ourselves from the rat race from the dark age we gotta ask ourselves is it working is it fair?
6.
Shut Them Up 03:27
i went to rehab just to shut them up i had to listen to doctors and priests talking about blood and god from the prison of junk to the prison of life from being scared of what's out there to be scared of what's deep inside I went to rehab just to shut them up I went to rehab, now i can say i tried but all i want is those waves of euphoria to wash down my spine and i wont look back all the way to the guillotine coz i remember you telling me i don't worth the air i breathe I went to rehab just to shut them up
7.
Sirens 03:12
i hear the sirens and the boom i guess they started another war not a good time to quit smoking not a good time to fall in love mum doesn't stop praying and dad wouldn't open his mouth on tv they singing and digging the graves for you and i and on either side a mass suicide i see the fire and the smoke it must have been very close not a good time for day dreaming not a good time at all mum doesn't bother cooking and dad wouldn't open his eyes on tv they singing and digging the graves for you and i
8.
uncle hitler, uncle sam you know they all the same they all insane they wanna own you they want your thoughts and working hands they'll take your heart and fill it up with hate you yell out no one listen we still tolerate genocide and pop groups we can't tolerate no genocide no pop groups the roulette spins and it lands and it might be where you at this time around it's you in danger did you yell out when you could for others just like you? do you realise we all one?
9.
we sell the time of our lives for survival they call work every morning like a bullet in the head you give up to the clock you used to shine like a diamond now you just a burnt light bulb you someone else's shadow and you nothing at all like flies banging against the window you wanna get out thinking of the dreams you littered behind as you make your way up the ladder you realise it was a trap you sick of being a servant you run to the window and jump but it's not how i wanted to live there's gotta be an alternative i'd rather be a primitive i'm gonna go bush tucking
10.
Cemetery 02:42
i wanna be with her but that would be a sin don't want to have to tell her about the things my eyes have seen she never done no harm you can tell by touching her skin sleeping next to her i'm waking up into a dream you could be my wife for a couple of years i'll hold your hand til i get back on my feet we would be so pretty just like a cemetery you would be the flowers and i'm the dead thing i wanna be with her i got to have a sniff slowly my confidence turns into fears but i dived the dead sea with my eyes open just for her she's making me do things no other man can
11.
playing with my freedom is playing with fire and you shouldn't dare mind your own business, tax the rich, get off my back playing with my freedom is playing with fire beware no more puppetry no more mind control things are about to change coz just like smoke i always find my way out yes, just like smoke i always find my way out playing with my freedom is playing with fire and you should be scared as millions of people all over the world are taking out to the squares playing with my freedom is playing with fire and you shouldn't dare mind your own business, tax the rich, get off my back
12.
got no thread to stitch the hole in my pocket but who cares it's empty anyway all that we get is made out of debt call it what you want but we enslaved to the banks they say they wanna turn the forest into paper and i know this is no good they wanna cash it over in asia but those trees gonna stay where they got their roots we gonna make love and a class war seen enough of those good looking coffins stuffed with us the victims of war we counting the dead, they counting the cash and planing the next place to drop their bombs but we are paving down the road to utopia its always darkest before the dawn we gonna revolt, rebuild it all we put our bodies behind those words we gonna make
13.
she had roses coming out of her neck a smell that even god could not understand she came from far away, yes, she crossed a few oceans i held her in my arms it felt like heaven longer chains and bigger cages was all that she wanted but the satan from immigration said no no no no no no no no my baby's gonna get deported she started crying said she is scared shit can go wrong if she goes back and there's so much room on that stolen land they took her off my arms it felt like hell

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released August 29, 2016

This album was created on Wurundjeri land - people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge them as the rightful owners and custodians of this land on which we live and work. Land which was stolen and sovereignty never ceded. We pay our respects to their elders both past and present.

All tracks written and produced by The Shabbab, except tracks 1, 3, 10 and 11 with help from Zac Milner-Cretney. The Shabbab are Shuki Rosenboim, Jad Choucair, Vito Lucarelli and Constantine Stefanou. (C) and (P) The Shabbab 2016. Recorded at The Annex, Wattle Glen by Vito Lucarelli with help from Cody Scarff and Joseph Franklin. Mixed by Vito Lucarelli. Mastered by Mikey Young. Cover image and layout by George Johnson. Licensed to Hive Minds by The Shabbab. HM015 (fb.com/hivemindsmusic)

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The Shabbab Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne/Middle-East-Brunswick’s very own garage band, The Shabbab, bring their eclectic backgrounds together creating a high energy and original performance.

Passionate, hard-hitting and informative lyrics complemented by explosive drumming and garage-punk guitar riffs with that renowned arabesque twang.
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