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lyrics
You’re brandishing your paper sword, in vain. All appeals for reform just ignored. Don’t lend them legitimacy, abstain. These fuckwits don’t represent me. Old boys’ clubs, backhanders and bribes. Deceit. In corruption government resides. Locked away in their ivory tower. Elite. Dark corridors of privilege and power. If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal. Whoever you vote for the government wins. Little wonder that we’re contemptuous and cynical of politicians and their duplicitous grins. Petitions, elections, a sham, a hoax. The ruling classes just don’t give a damn. The ballot box, a safety outlet, a joke. Paper swords just a limp empty threat. If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal. Whoever you vote for the government wins. They’re shit scared of democracy, of self-ruling people. They’ll betray you, forsake you, to save their own skins.
(Paper Sword in Irish Gaelic – translated by Ben Ó Ceallaigh)
Claíomh Páipeir
Tá do chlaíomh páipéir á bhagairt agat, in aisce. Neamhaird déanta ar chuile achainí leasaithe. Ná tabhair aon dlisteanacht daofa, staon ón vóta. Ní dhéanann na slímadóirí seo ionadaíocht ormsa. Club na seanfhondúirí, breabanna, an crúibín cam. Dallamullóg. Tá an rialtas fite fuaite leis an gcaimiléireacht. Scartha uainne, saol an mhadaidh bháin acu. Scothaicme. Hallaí dorcha na pribhléide agus na cumhachta. Dá n-athródh vótáil aon cheo, dheanfadh siad mídhleathach í. Cibé dó a thugann tú do vóta, beidh an bua ag rialtas. Beag an t-ionadh go bhfuil muid searbh ag na polaiteoirí agus an ghráin againn orhtu agus ar a ngiollaí lofa. Achainíocha, toghcháin, bréag, bob. Is cuma sa tsioc leis an uasaicme. An bosca ballóide, bealach sábhailteachta, ceap magaidh. Claimhte páipéir, bagairt tláith lag gan mhaith. Dá n-athródh vótáil aon cheo, dheanfadh siad mídhleathach í. Cibé do a thugann tú do vóta, beidh an bua ag rialtas. Tá faitíos an diabhail orthu roimh an daonlathas, roimh na daoine i gceannas orthu féin. Déanfaidh siad feall ort, tréigfidh siad thú, chun na haenna a thabhairt leofa.
Spoken bit:
‘Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.’ Big P Politics is a distraction, a circus, ‘the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.’ But this isn’t apathy – we give a fuck. The struggle isn’t at the ballot box. The real fight is organising ourselves, taking back society for direct democracy and freedom. Don’t vote away your voice, act on your own mandate, Parliament is void. Take to the streets, vote for yourself!
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