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Written, performed and recorded by Ryan Taylor in 2020.
Felix Meredith- Trumpet
Lachlan Daff- Tenor saxophone
Mixed by Ryan Taylor.
Mastered by Mikey Young
Special thanks to Adelaide Hosi, Cameron Taylor, Gabriel Robinson and Ryan Feltwell for the crowd effects & claps. We messed around in a room with a microphone while isolating at home in 2020. Something to do while the world was kinda falling apart around us. Thanks guys, love you.
lyrics
There goes another one resisting the change
Drivin' that train
You'll never see them again
The phone lines are cut, all your memories in the mud
Laughing a fit, they'll tell you have a go kid
See you and me, we got this in common
So simmer down and won't ya see
Everybody's got their problem
So find the one that makes you wanna bleed
THE MAN HAS NO PLAN
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Ain't no time to die
THE MAN HAS NO PLAN
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Ain't no time to die
To those who said we beat the fascists back in '45
Their sons are alive, you bet they're robbin' you blind
When no- one believes what the other one said
You better read between the lines or be it on your head
See you and me, we got this in common
So simmer down and won't ya see
Everybody's got their problem
So find the one that makes you wanna bleed
THE MAN HAS NO PLAN
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Ain't no time to die
THE MAN HAS NO PLAN
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Ain't no time to die
When the Salvia Mechanic sells his latest cure
They'll be queuing up for days just to buy a look
Screaming PROTEST IS DEAD to the millions in line
You strap up your boots, you give him a piece of your mind
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Maybe tomorrow, hey? Damn
THE MAN HAS NO PLAN
You filthy grassroot trooper
And don'tcha know we're all just troopin' for ya
Ain't no time to die
I say ventriloquists can be difficult at the best of times
The puppets will die to see their masters smile
They kill our visionaries while the country burns
You get up and march, they think you got no nerve
credits
released May 14, 2021
Recorded in many untreated rooms on the ancestral lands of the Wurundjeri & Boonwurrung people. Sovereignty was never ceded and the truth never told. The Knees Band operates on stolen land and we pay our respects to the traditional and current custodians of country. This always was, is, and always will be Aboriginal land.
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