When the bosses' sanguination through the city streets does run
There can be no power greater than the barrel of a gun
And when the bourgeoisie protests expropriate their tongue
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
The fuck we got in common with the greedy parasite
Who would kill a union activist to give their cola bite
The pigs work for the bosses so get strapped in for a fight
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
It's we who run the weapons plants and fight the wars they wage
And who work consumer hotlines from the inside of a cage
It's we who sweep the stock exchange where it's our lives they trade
But the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
All the world that pigs patrol is ours and ours alone
All their deeds have the authority of workers' crunching bone
But when their city hall explodes, it's we who owned that drone
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
Their dollars are our labor when we overwork they earn
But without our brains and muscle there's no treatment for a burn
No one to put out mansion fires where charring bodies turn
While the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They come pollute our neighborhoods and privatize the grass
They exploit our race and gender to divide the working class
Because they know united that we'd rise to kick their ass
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They racketeer, enslave and murder, gas us while we grieve
They cut off our public services and raise rent till we leave
So we'll burn every yogurt shop until the pigs believe
That the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
We're told of all the progress that democracy has made
But the myth of meritocracy don't match what we get paid
There's no hope in a ballot box but on a barricade
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
If you protest a pay cut then you're fired on the spot
Then they throw you in a jail cell if you sell all that you got
So all sex workers take up arms and take the money shot
For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They tell us job security will come to us with time
While our kin retire homeless at the age of 89
With theft and solidarity it's our assembly line
For the black bloc makes us strong
supported by 4 fans who also own “Solidarity Forever (Illegal Version)”
Thank Goddess for this wondrous album, which I should have picked up aeons ago. The otherworldly atmosphere this trio weaves is utterly intoxicating and wholly (holy) their own.
Sincerest thanks for putting this and Feminazgul’s other albums in the feed today @Sælzer Bub; your timing was impeccable! MJ
Specializing in bright, sunny "bedroom rock español," this Brooklyn singer-songwriter puts a unique spin on lo-fi music. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 18, 2024