Lyrics for The Angry Mob as interpreted by bing_redboy

The Angry Mob Lyrics
I can prove anything
I'll make you admit again and again
I can prove anything
The way that it's read again and again

And its only cos you came here with your brothers too
If you came here on your own you’d be dead
Its only cos you follow what the others do
Its no excuse to say your easily lead

You can choose anything
You choose to lose again and again
You could do anything
Why should you do anything again

And its only cos you came here with your brothers too
If you came here on your own you’d be dead
Winding yourself up until your turning blue
Repeating everything that you've read

So here we go with the letter
Well can you fix it for me
Cos we need entertainment
To keep us all off the streets

So tonight you’ll sleep softly in your bed

You can try anything
And no-one would know apart for you and me
You can stop anything
It's starts with just one and two then three

Its only cos you came here with your brothers too
If you came here on your own you’d be dead
Raise a glass or two
You raise a fist or two
And get a shopping basket wrapped round your head

Here we go with the letter
Oh can you fix it for me
24 hour drinking
To keep us all off the streets

So tonight you'll sleep softly in your bed

We are the angry mob
We read the papers everyday day
We like who like
We hate who we hate
But we’re also easily swayed

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strider3005
02-28-2007

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Woo, first comment!

Anyway, I love this song. I bought the CD today, and there's like 6 tracks I love (not that the other 7 aren't great, I just prefer those 6). The Angry Mob is one of those 6.

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nidan
03-02-2007

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Well let's be fair - as much as I like the Kaiser Chiefs not all of their song writing has the deepest meaning.

But the first thing that struck me about this is that it may be a little bit fo a refelction on Briatin. Britain is the Angry Mob. and the repeated lines towards the end about reading the papers and being easily swayed could refer to British Tabloids...

Basically we get angry and wound up quickly , but with little or no reason to??

Just my thoughts?!

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dc03
03-07-2007

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i think it's about condmening britain these days (especially younger people) , basically.... drinking all the time (24 hour drinking to keep us all off the streets), fighting on the streets (shopping basket qrapped round your head), going around in gangs (it's only cos you came here with your brothers too, if you came here on your own you'd be dead)... and generally being scum

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MelancholyMatt
04-10-2007

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good song. explores the absolute power yet fickleness of the working class. think the chiefs are treading on the killers' toes though.

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SuperAlly
04-30-2007

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I think it refers to Ned/Chav culture in todays Britain. They do what they want, they are "easily swayed", papers like the Sun, the NOTW make them even more ignorant. They act like muppets and will play the hardman to impress their friends, but if their friends werent there to back them up, they would get the shit beaten out of them.

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Chaomey
05-07-2007

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Haha, yeah, kinda sounds like Britain.

Oooh but this song is AWESOME. Kaiser Chefs must take tradition in making addictive songs, because every time this song ends I push the back button just like I did with "Oh My God." It's like drugs, seriously...

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TheFallen
05-17-2007

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So tonight you'll sleep softly in your bed
I dunno why, but when he sings this, it kinda reminds me of franz ferdinand
and i think its about britain indeed
and that people go along with the mob.
"Repeating everything that you've read"
not thinking anymore, just repeating

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SyroVision
06-09-2007

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Awesome Song... great vocal/tamborine'ing

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SyroVision
06-17-2007

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Its about the chavs and the yobos who walk the streets in their stupid track suits thinking they know everything coz they read the tabloids, then getting drunk and fighting over whose opinion is more valid over some flawed article they read.

its a very common occurrence. and a genius song.

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dymonaz
09-06-2007

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SuperAlly, SyroVision - open your eyes. YOU are the angry mob. It's not ONLY about chavs or neds or any other group of people that you don't like. You ARE the angry mob. Well... WE are the angry mob.

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georgie
09-12-2007

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I don't think this is a dig at a particular group of people in Britain, but as society as whole.
It seems a very Marxist outlook, saying how we are all dependent on the media for our opinions, even if whats in the papers from day to day changes we just immediately conform to whatever we're told.

I also think this links in with all the bad press that teenagers have been given and the 24-hour drinking laws. If the papers are telling everyone that teenagers are violent and troublesome then the teenagers are going out and fulfilling this role.

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Trix76
09-23-2007

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I would have to say that this song is about a culture that believes what they hear and have no real opinions of their own, yes, there are specifics but in general it describes a culture that has no opinion of their own and kind of goes along with the group and the tabloids.


The only reason I looked this song up was because in an RPG game that I am a member of one of the members used the "We are the angry mob we read the papers every day we like who we like we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed." on their to take a dig at me, of course, there is a such thing as projection. People should learn to accept responsibility for their own actions and stop using their friends, especially online, to protect them. It doesn't take a lot of heart for a group to gang up on one player but this is away from the point of this comment. This song is deep but it just goes to show you how people can manipulate things with true meaning to distort.

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kernkraft88
11-05-2007

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It's not about the chavs, it's about YOU, the people who believe Britain is being taken over by chavs, that immigrants are stealing our jobs and that Britain is going to "hell in a handbasket"

Basically it's the same as "Hunting for witches" by Bloc Party- The Daily Express telling us what to think and us believing it.

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CeCe_Baby
06-02-2008

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i believe its about the effects that media has had on us as a country. We believe everything we read in newspaper such as The Sun, and we mindlessly repeat it "Repeating everything that you've read"
They also say how this has become alright to do as the other newspapers copy "only cos you came in with your brothers too" brothers being the other media - "if you came here on your own you'd be dead" - you would get away with it if the other newspapers didnt copy it.
It also shows the way media effects our opinions - "We are the angry mob
We read the papers everyday day
We like who like
We hate who we hate
But we’re oh so easily swayed"
- the media has the power to change our opinions by the rubbish that they print.

Its a good song and very catchy

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CeCe_Baby
06-02-2008

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"you would get" should be " you wouldn't get" woops

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minimegoosey
07-09-2008

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I really like the Kaiser Chiefs, but for me, this album was a bit average except for one or two songs. This is one of those good ones though (other favourites are Ruby, of course, and Loves Not A Competetion). The end is the best.

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Spiked-Striped
02-13-2009

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i really like the idea of "here we go with the letter/can you fix it for me", i think it might be that idea of asking everyone else to solve our own problems, and a Jim'll Fix It reference? everyone just complaining about things but being complacent when it comes to actually sorting it out.

the idea of "we like who we like" is a kind of elitist thing; not accepting other people into the fold because of a group mentality of keeping out anything they don't agree with, but once something's widespread and popular they're "easily swayed". it's definitely something about redtop papers like the Sun and whatever, they do a lot of "campaigns" against and for things and a lot of people will read that everyday, it's a cheap source of entertainment and information that doesn't challenge people in terms of intelligence.

this song is definitely not against the working class/"chavs", it's saying that this is the way things are and the government like to introduce things to make themselves look better or more popular like 24 hour drinking but it's a cynicism, like the government may think that stops people from being how they are but they'll still oppose people they fundamentally disagree with because of upbringing and disadvantage, and being told all the time by the redtops that the government is made up of people with "too much" when they themselves have not very much. the kaisers are leeds boys, so they'll have seen this.

well, i think so, anyway :) could be wrong!

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WYMS
03-20-2009

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I find it outrageous that some people are classing the working class and chavs as the same category. Chav's don't work, that's why they aren't working class.

Anyway rant over.
Great song and i agree that this must be about modern day britain, everyone believing what they read in papers.
The video shows different social classes fighting so you can't just say its all about chavs.

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jackmar97
06-14-2009

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heres my thought about the song.

the first verse is about wise people not getting drunk and in trouble.
the second is about people who get drunk and the other people ''your brothers''look after you and stop you from getting that drunk you nearly die, and saying they got drunk so i shouldnt just get don refers to the line ''Its only cos you follow what the others do, Its no excuse to say your easily lead''.
the 3rd is about choosing to get drunk then getting into bother.
the 4th is the same as the 2nd.
the 5th is about asking people to help you out in life.
then the 6th is about getting really drunk and just falling asleep.
the 7th about stoping yourself geting drunk.plus about getting annoyed about fights

the 8th is about asking for a fight then getting badly injured.
the 9th is about people using drinking as an excuse as staying of the streets.
then the last couple is about the public liking some people who goe out and hating others.


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Dgramusset
05-09-2010

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I think this songs is about street justice, and evidence manipulation

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