Project Description
Select lyrics written for Rooftop Revolutionaries, founded and fronted by Eleanor.
You can see more lyrics and hear the music at rooftoprevolutionaries.com
Included here:
- Sick, Tired & Wasted (WHITE EP)
- Let Freedom Ring (WHITE EP)
- Complicity (Resolute)
- Kiss My Soul (WHITE EP)
- Diamonds (RED EP)
- Con Artist (RED EP)
- Home (BLUE EP)
- Sing (BLUE EP)
- Folk Devils (Resolute)
Sick, Tired & Wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
You’re not the only one
Low wage
Debt’s cage
Freedom comes in change
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
You’re not the only one
School’s become a shooting range
Sex sells, war pays
we can’t abstain.
Take these pills to calm the ills
Low life, high priced dyin’ brought to you by
Fat Cats
with 9 lives
that just won’t die
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
You’re not the only one
who’s sick, tired & wasted
sick, tired & wasted
sick, tired & wasted
I’m not the only one
Wasted by design
who’ll fight sick and tired
They won’t give you their permission
to fix the world they broke, yeah!
Oh what a waste!
Oh what a waste!
Oh what a fucking waste!
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
I’m not the only one
who’s sick, tired & wasted
We’re all sick, tired & wasted
You’re not the only one
Who’s drunk on apathy
escapin reality
dumbed down, unused, left behind
Here’s your rehab, you wasted youth,
Raise your fist and scream
FUCK YOU!
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring!
Lady Liberty lies
busted lip and cries
Corporate goons, yeah you slick tycoons –
wiping blood –
diamond ring.
She won’t listen, she won’t learn
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom –
Hey, can you hear me?
Let Freedom Ring
Scream, if you hear me!
Let Freedom Ring
Going back to your cage
Oh this sick malaise –
and you reach for me
through a love restrained
You’re enslaved –
in your own damn mind.
She ain’t your captor
but I’m your crime
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom –
Hey, can you hear me?
Let Freedom Ring
Scream, if you hear me!
Let Freedom Ring
And you’re enslaved!
And you’re enslaved!
Scream if you hear me!
Hey, can’t you hear me?
Let Freedom Ring
Scream, if you hear me!
Let Freedom Ring
Hey, can’t you hear me?
Let Freedom Ring
Scream, if you hear me!
Let Freedom Ring
Complicity
Where were you when this crusade first came?
Holy CIA and Pinochet.
Greed cuts you deep
Bleed as they reap
Neo-cons took up their arms in faith
Genocide wears suits and ties, let’s play
Greed cuts you deep
Bleed as they reap
As they reap, cuts you deep, bleed me
That’s your complicity
Oligarchs and Wall Street sharks, sieg heil
Where will you be when they read your file?
Greed cuts you deep
Bleed as they reap
As they reap, cuts you deep, bleed me
As they reap, cuts you deep,
That’s your complicity
As they reap, cuts you deep, bleed me
That’s your complicity
Oh greed cuts you deep
Bleed as they reap
Oh Bleed – as they reap
Kiss My Soul
This cliché empty street –
A mind that’s bittersweet, oh
A hand not holding one
A love song not sung –
Not today –
And that’s ok
Clouds behind my eyes –
A rising storm inside
A trident in your smile –
I weathered yours now mine –
Like rain that washes bare,
Light in this heavy air
It’s not your pain I seek –
Just me
I held my own to be alone –
I drained my will to get your fill
I kiss my soul for coming home
I guess I’m meant to be alone
Alone
I tried with homicide –
Killing off my selfish side
I fought my own damn mind –
Nothing gained, just tired –
Of filling in the lines –
A life of compromise
I think I’ll step aside –
And let me by…
I held my own to be alone –
I drained my will to get your fill
I kiss my soul for coming home
I guess I’m meant to be a –
I held my own to be alone –
I drained my will to get your fill
I kiss my soul for coming home
I guess I’m meant to be alone
Alone
This cliché empty street –
A mind that’s bittersweet, oh
A hand not holding one
A love song not sung –
I held my own to be alone –
I drained my will to get your fill
I kiss my soul for coming home
I guess I’m meant to be a –
I held my own to be alone –
I drained my will to get your fill
I kiss my soul for coming home
I guess I’m meant to be alone
Alone
Diamonds
You know they’ll be selling something
Drugs for souls, minds must go
Deals struck, beat, burned, sign that line now
What you’ll save –
Worth the pain
Diamonds, silver, gold
Once you’re cold
Diamonds, silver, gold
Bless my soul!
Made your mind but don’t you use it
Take these lines, getting high
Numb your reason, coz nature lies
You won’t ask why –
sell your life
Diamonds, silver, gold
Once you’re cold
Diamonds, silver, gold
Bless my soul!
Diamonds, silver, gold
Once you’re cold
Diamonds, silver, gold
Bless my soul!
You know they’ll be selling something
Drugs for souls, minds must go
After party’s where it’s at now but
you can’t see it –
Just believe!
Diamonds, silver, gold
Once you’re cold
Diamonds, silver, gold
Bless my soul!
Diamonds, silver, gold
Once you’re cold
Diamonds, silver, gold
Bless my soul!
Con Artist
Rock hard intellect, a fallacy
Fluffed up pop is your idolatry
Hipster kool-aid, all the craze
Reality leaves a bitter taste.
If cool meant dissension
Would you break your pretension?
Sold in a melody
Music’s lobotomy
Fast food, cookie cutter
Please drive through
Come again, there’ll be more real soon
How dare you stand up there with vapid lines?!
You’re a voice of a generation,
take some pride!
If cool meant dissension
Would you break your pretension?
Sold in a melody
Music’s lobotomy
Wrapped in a melody
Music’s lobotomy
Oh you’re a slick con
Oh, you’re a good con
Oh, you’re a good con
Oh, you’re a good con
Oh, you’re a good con!
Sold in a melody
Music’s lobotomy
Wrapped in a melody
Music’s lobotomy
Home
Home –
is a place not carved in stone.
It rolls, like these thoughts over your soul.
How could I, how could you, how could this be?
Why, what – who am I, rearrange
Take me home.
Go –
Where your dreams lead though you know –
That some, might keep you sleeping so –
You wake, you try, live or die, low to high
I sat between a splintered soul picking sides then
Home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
How old –
is too young to let go?
How low –
before you let yourself be sold?
You toe the line then turn to find the dotted kind so
cut and sliced, you gathered up your mind and then went
Home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
Meet me home.
Blissful blind –
running out of time.
I’d go back but I’d lose track –
of where I wanna go,
who I wanna be
depends on which me takes the keys and says
Let’s Go.
Let’s go home – let’s go home….meet me home…
Sing
Dust in a sunbeam, here we lay our scene
On this small stage, a speck, a line – on endless pages, space and time
You and I, we scribble lives
Sing, now with me
You may say we’re all divine, that fate flows through our veins and I –
belittle life.
But the gods you made to quench your fears –
of dying kill your living years, why?
Why live to die?
Sing, now with me
You stardust souls
I’ll show you home
Sing now with me
These scribbled lives
From nothing rise, come cry your fire
Sing, now with me
You stardust souls
I’ll show you home
Sing now with me
These scribbled lives
From nothing rise, come cry your fire
Sing, now with me
You stardust souls
I’ll show you home
Sing now with me
These scribbled lives
From nothing rise, come cry your fire
Dust in a sunbeam
Here we lay our scene
On this small stage, a speck, a line – on endless pages, space and time
You and I, we scribble lives
Folk Devils
Bring me that horizon, let me see it in your eyes and,
Let me go to sleep at night, thinkin that you care
Let me go to sleep at night, rememberin what was there.
Folk devils stealin souls, that’s what you told me
Wrapped in fear, the end is near
Fear my dear,
Fear, fear, fear!
Make them, to break your fall
Fear binds, pull tight the ties
Make them, before we know
Cut throat –
You just let go
You got what you were after:
a line of sheep, a flock
Eatin lies, shittin tithes,
the time bomb goes tick-tock
Hey yeah, it’s a fear devotion
Hey yeah, it’s a mind fuck ride
Hey yeah, come on in and get down
Dance with your morbid fear
Folk Devils are here
Make them, to break your fall
Fear binds, pull tight the ties
Make them, before we know
Cut throat –
You just let go
Hey yeah, it’s a fear devotion
Hey yeah, it’s a mind fuck ride
Hey yeah, come on in and get down
Dance with your morbid fear
Folk Devils are here
bring me that horizon –
lemme see it in your eyes and
lemme go to sleep at night,
thinkin that you care
Hey yeah
Hey yeah
Hey yeah
Hey yeeaaaah!
Make them, to break your fall
Fear binds, pull tight the ties
Make them, before we know
Cut throat –
You just let go
Make them, before we know
Cut throat –
You just let go
Hey yeah, it’s a fear devotion
Hey yeah, it’s a mind fuck ride
Hey yeah, come on in and get down
Dance with your morbid fear
Folk Devils are here