THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Written, performed and produced by Leo Butler & Dan Persad.

1. HISTORY REPEATING (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Dan.

I held the heavens, looked at what I’d become

Just a stranger to the deeds that I have done.

History repeating, walking back and forth and to and fro

Mystery is fleeting, more than you and I will ever know.

Tread softly as you go, you are walking on my dreams,

And I have left my heart out, underneath the seams.

And I have worn the clothing of gold and silver light,

And I have spent a lifetime knowing I was right.

Darkness now surrounding, heaven only knows which way we’ll go,

Fight for our survival, as the river flows we too must go.

Tread softly as you go, you are walking on my dreams.

And I have left my heart out, underneath the seams.

2. LITTLE MONKEY (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

Heaven help us, feeding time again,

Little monkey, scribbling with your pen,

Cause hard work counts for something, you’re free

Name them, shame them, borrow beg & lend,

Little monkey, who’d call you a friend?

Cause fear will protect you, sign in.

Cast your ballot, right the keeper’s wrongs,

Little monkey, bedtime won’t be long.

And there’s justice for the victims on your screen,

No justice for the victims on your screen.

We know when we’ve been lied to,

We know where you live.

We’ll kill the pigs in Downing Street,

Strike the match, they’ll feel the heat,

Crush the bones of the riot police,

Good Queen Liz naked on her leash,

Watch her choke on her Christmas speech,

Kill the pigs in Downing Street.

Too late monkey, buried in your head,

Keep your chin up, keeper’s turned and fled.

We’ll kill the pigs in Downing Street,

Chew the fat off the bankers’ meat,

Round them up, the world elite,

Drop the bomb, drop the bomb, drop the bomb, drop the bomb.

3. SEE-SAW (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

See saw, see saw, up and down

Changing faces, changing sounds

Hold me, hold me, off the ground

World keeps turning, round and round

And I’m free.

4. IN TIME (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Dan.

What could she see in me?

I’m not the man I always hoped I would be

Helpless as the world consumes me

What could I mean to her?

The odds are stacked against me now

Heartfelt as we both grow older.

I'll know everything in time, I'll know everything in time,

This day is mine

Why should it be so hard?

To open up and tell her how she breaks my heart

Words have only failed me so far.

I'll know everything in time, I'll know everything in time,

This day is mine.

Sea of strangers tapping into their own song,

Can't remember where I came from.

I'll know everything in time, this day is mine.

5. NOTHING CHANGES (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Dan & Leo.

Feed upon my blackened soul to make this home,

Under my sickened mind switched to rewind

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Life in phases, discarded traces

Underline my time, move into the light

Dispelling of my energy under false reality

Turn tide, I’ve nothing left to say

From wasted opportunities

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Life in phases, discarded traces,

Underline my time, move into the light

I’ve not seen your light on for quite some time,

And it scares me if you must know, but I’m not blind,

Cause I can see that you’re leaving me behind

There’s a window of opportunity to change your mind

And so it goes,

Pack my bags and join another show,

Deep behind my eyes you’ll see me falling,

Now I’m safe with all the spiders and they’re calling to me, calling to me

Wind blow,

The liars and the hypocrites who run the show,

Don’t look back they’ll have another go,

Now I’m safe with all the spiders and they’re calling to me, calling to me

Wind blow.

6. HEROINE (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Dan.

I seem to have hit the bottom,

You seem on top of the world to me,

I’m likely to be forgotten,

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

She’s got designs for destruction,

She’s got a twinkle in her eye,

And in the process of deduction,

She’ll just eliminate you and I.

Just when you thought you were safe from harm,

Just when you thought you’d go back to the sea,

She’ll pull the plug on your empty life,

And leave you wondering what to believe.

She’s got designs for destruction,

She’s got a twinkle in her eye,

And in the process of deduction,

She’ll just eliminate you and I.

She’ll entice you to the garden,

‘Cause there’s no place like home,

She’s my little heroine,

Why won’t you leave me alone?

7. ISRAEL (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

Secret sodomised altar boy grows up carrying the cross,

Carry out the crimes on your altar boy,

Searching for the child that you lost.

In your ghetto, sweet ghetto.

The earthquake pulls apart your promised land,

I see it detonate the strip,

Jehovah fails you at the barrier,

The barrier that's kept you safely hid.

In your ghetto sweet ghetto,

Rocking the free world since ’48,

Playing grandma’s footsteps with the green line,

While the West Bank buckles under your deceit.

The East and the West go down with you,

Like the Romans and Apartheid went before,

Your holiness expanding at the barrier,

We’re all meat here at the farm.

I dreamed the flood uncovered Golgotha,

Jesus bleeding from the cross,

Circumcised soldiers stand surrounding,

And He saw the non-believers and shouted out “thank god”.

‘Cause the spaceships will invade us,

Shine their lights upon this rock,

And with their lasers and their ray-guns,

Even poor Galileo will be burned upon the bush.

8. MASTER LUKE (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

Master Luke, nobody knows you better, you're gonna keep it together

Give me life, be your wife, be the butter on your knife

In style, been a while since I saw you smile

Hit the link, make them think that your cooler

Much cooler, your sense of humour’s

Peculiar, attractive, your story’s fantastic

Master Luke, here’s an engine for you

It’s got maps, no traps, the spyware’s fast,

It’ll take you to places, familiar faces,

From movies and music, you’re doing the choosing,

Exclusive to you, the world sees you choose,

They’re routing for you as you’re choosing,

Abusing if that’s what your choosing,

I’m open, devoted, we’re part of the world, it’s a party,

It’s starry and they’re friends with you if you’re

Clever and cool ‘cause they’re just like you,

And you’re central, so central, our eyes on you.

Don’t log me off, don’t log me off,

Don’t log me off, don’t log me off.

9. WHO YOU ARE (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Dan.

Did you drowse and fall to sleep? Drift away into the deep?

Did you store it all away amongst the secrets that you keep?

Did you know you’d lost your way? Is there nothing left to say?

Is it all you feel and more and cannot help it anyway?

Did you ever have control? Did you simply live in hope?

Did you see it for yourself or did your eyes not want to know?

Can you hear me, are you home? Are you lost and all alone?

What does it feel like to close your eyes and not know where to go?

You’ve changed your mind now again and again,

And now we’re waiting for your ship to come about.

Caught up in the undertow, smiling in towards the glow.

Was it ever up to you? Were you tightening the screw?

Can we put this all behind us? Won’t you tell us what to do?

Are you balancing alone? Are you sure you have to go?

If you ever thought of stopping by, I would really like to know.

Can you tell me now for sure? Can you open all the doors?

Has it really been a lifetime? Won’t you smile at us once more?

Did you know it all along? Did you laugh at us when we were wrong?

We stumbled through the darkness just to feel we’d belong.

So when you come to find it’s all been said and done,

If you could muster up the strength to carry on.

If you can keep your head while those around you cry,

Yours is the world, my friend, and all that we’ve become.

No one seemed to really know, just how brave and beautiful you are.

10. TIME TO GO (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

It’s time for you to go,

You’ve done very well

It's time for you to go

There’s nothing here for you

Just try and let it go,

You know you have to all these

People carry on

They always have and always will until the last man stands, the sun will take away the land

Just make up your mind,

There’s no point holding on,

The hands slip away,

It’s all we’re certain of, but maybe there’s a god, maybe we’ll meet again, though probably we’ll not.

It’s time for you to go

The soil makes love to you, this song preserves your memory, sink into the symphony and fade away.

11. TEN THOUSAND MILES (Butler/Persad) Lead vocal - Leo.

Don’t let them bring you down today,

Don’t let them see you cry tomorrow,

Close the door and walk away, you’re better.

And I will be here with you forever.

‘Cause you are my friend and my family, we will stop the world together.

Here is my answer for the road.

You must go on, I can’t go on,

You must go on, I can’t, I’ll go on.

Sinking through the symphony, memories stare at back at me, lighting up my observation dome.

Talking to the trees again, smoking up a storm my friend, did they under-estimate our dreams?

Trouble gone, trouble past, swaddled up in plaster-cast, time accelerates to bring me home.

But I don’t know where I’m going to, and it suits me fine,

No, I don’t know where the story ends, but my feet won’t fail me as I climb.

On a mountain where I can touch the sky,

Morning sun that makes my spirit fly,

Vision of the collective in your eye,

Find the light in the shadow of our time,

It’s our time.

You must go on, I can’t go on,

You must go on, I can’t, I’ll go on.

(c) Leo Butler & Dan Persad, 2017

Album artwork - "Black pool", Laurent DeFrance, 2008.