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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 'cause you came here with your brothers too
If you came here on your own you?d be dead
Its only 'cause 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 'cause 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
'Cause 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 'cause 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
Twenty four 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
I'll make you admit again and again
I can prove anything
The way that it's read again and again
And its only 'cause you came here with your brothers too
If you came here on your own you?d be dead
Its only 'cause 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 'cause 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
'Cause 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 'cause 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
Twenty four 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
Lyrics submitted by bing_redboy
Track duration: 03:24
"The Angry Mob" as written by Nicholas Hodgson, Charles Richard Wilson, Nicholas Baines, James Rix, Andrew Robert White
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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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.
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.
"Here we go with the letter
Oh can you fix it for me" Jim'll fix it?
"24 hour drinking
To keep us all off the streets" Seems like a stab at the then Gov who introduced 24/7 bar openings.
The folks in the resturant are taking pleasure from the working classes fighting as they always do. Yet they shut up shop in fear and chair gets thrown in their window. In the end the women in pink and the women in red stop fighting. There is a moment where two people hold hands (They join up against the posh twats?)
The video ends there. To me it says join together against your oppressors.
To most people here, it says "chavs" are awful people who will never have a seminal moment to rake the bastards back.
By the way, Middle and Upper Class people read the papers more than Chavs and the Working Class.
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!
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
Basically it's the same as "Hunting for witches" by Bloc Party- The Daily Express telling us what to think and us believing it.
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.
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.