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Memories are fading,
A single voice complaining
While days are stacking up
It's hardly worth debating,
The people are frustrated
Drink from poison cup
The system is collapsing,
Conscience is relapsing
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
Vision is rejected, The people's choice is tested
So ignorance has won
Children are infected, Remedy suggested
Don't drink from tainted cup
Overpopulation, a media sensation
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
A single voice complaining
While days are stacking up
It's hardly worth debating,
The people are frustrated
Drink from poison cup
The system is collapsing,
Conscience is relapsing
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
Vision is rejected, The people's choice is tested
So ignorance has won
Children are infected, Remedy suggested
Don't drink from tainted cup
Overpopulation, a media sensation
The damage has been done
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
On the day you come rising up
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"...the release of The Day You Come in August 1998, which appears to address the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.
- Bernard Fanning: That's kind of gone into myth, that that song was about Pauline Hanson. It wasn't. It was more about the mood of the time, and One Nation definitely contributed to that, but to me it was the first witnessing of a really obvioius nastiness against minorities, where people where being overtly racist and discrimatory, and to me that was disturbing. And it wasn't just Pauline Hanson that was doing that."
i heard it was about johnny howard winning too many elections.
good song
i think its sort of like reading the future through history slowly people just become resources for the big brother like george orwells 1984 predicting the world being run as a total dictator ship people have no say government controls everything preety much like exactly whats happening in life at the moment government and media lying and shaping out conscious i think people understand what im getting at...
as for the day you come part what id like to think or what i interpret anyway is maybe a religious aspect to the song.. im not religious but like the songs about government control and how we are slowly loosing independence and freedom and will become nothing one day and that maybe the return of christ is who he is speaking about
on the day you come...
rising up...
maybe its a religious turn point.. sayin that the only hope is for a higher power to help us all
because their is nothing to do and nothing we can do is going to change no one is going to rebel against the government their will never be a total rebellion people will keep doing as their told pay rediculous prices listen to their president./minister lie to their faces on tv etc etc.. and the only one that can change this or prevent 1984 is a christ like figure or maybe the guy himself.. who knows just what i think
"The peoples choice is tested, so ignorance has won" refering to the infamous "Please Explain"
many other lines, will get back to this if i ever get time