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Underground Out Of Poland Lyrics (English Translation)

TO THE FUTURE/Ku Przysztojci (1983) Our lovely brothers Enjoy life Enjoy with us Like the heart from the blast-furnace Ally our efforts Unite all strengths Our country, our country Is waiting for you, lovely comrade Beautiful future Is ahead We'll erect new houses From concrete and steel Lets us all go to work We're building a new world Let us all go to work It's only a few years more ASK THE MILITIAMAN/Spytaj Milicjanta (1983) Which way, required by law and order Will lead me to happiness and honorable duties Ask the policeman He'll tell you the truth He'll show you the way I want to discover the world But don't know how Who'll tell me How I should do it How to become excellent, masculine, beautiful, strong How to reach one's aim and always be innocent Ask the policeman He'll tell you the truth He'll show you the way DRAB REALITY/Szara Rzeczywistoji (1981) Don't need you Wanna be alone Leave me Fuck off! Have what I have Want what I want And I shit on you Fuck off! Don't think like you do I am different I don't care For your thoughts and dreams Drab reality Your reality Is nothing to me Fuck off! Wanna have my own life Leave me alone Without your foolish advice Won't do any harm to you Just wanna be alone WAR OF FOOLS/Wojna Glupcow (1093) Rotten bodies and puddles Raise your hand and stand against the wall Piles of corpses shut dead Repeat like mad: War of fools will kill you This kind of war you won't survive People under pressure are obedient And are going to war No one'll win - no one'll come back No one grieves for anyone War of fools will swallow millions Only because someone is mad Will remain only exercises for us And orders for the dead POSTER/Plakat (1983) Once I saw a poster on the wall I read now people are divided How the poor are threatened with hunger and guns And nothing good will cross my path Far away People are afraid To go out into the street To say "No" Where is it? I won't buy a tank in a toy shop II won't give my life for a heroic cause I know, I can't see the world Only on a poster or a silly movie Colorful walls attack the crowd Half truth industry develops Posters can be seen anywhere And nothing happy will cross my path THERE IS NO THREAT/Nie Ma Zagrozeni (1983) Dreams become truth There is no threat Soldiers are useless Dreams become truth Soldiers are useless There is no hate There is no love either Evil doesn't exist Because there is no more mankind There is no need to hide There is no need to dramatize There's no need to bustle There's no need to erect new houses There is no hate There is no love either Evil doesn't exist Because there is no more mankind Radioactive reactors of doubt Love doesn't exist Because there is no more mankind There is no hate There is no more mankind You want something - don't know what You do something - don't know what You say something - don't know what You think something - don't know what You're looking at the screen - without aim You listen to the radio - without aim too You read something what everyone reads You feel you equal zero You would wake up - but what for You would sleep only at night You would go - don't know where You mean well - you do wrong You talk about justive So listen to the news You hear nothing You feel nothing You profit from it You want to live like a human being You want to feel like a human being You want to live in spite of it all Something kills you You don't know what MAYDAY PARADE (in Russian) Today is Labor Day In our lovely country Let the music play And we'll sing With hoisted flags We're going walkking And the birds are singing Along with us THE SLAVE/Niewolnik (1983) Great prophets fight with one another Shouting about feelings that don't exist Where is God? What does He want? Does He hear me? Where is God? What does He want? Does He love me? No! Which religion will give me absolution? Which God will sell me a cheap redemption? Escape from your conscience to church Escape from yourself to the religious visions Your religion is your protection That you heal like the charitable institution THE REBEL/Rebeliant (1981) Even if you were a young rebel You don't change anything Don't take on effort New times have come, the new era The new era of artificial thoughts The new era of artificial sons The new era of the synthetic brins The new era of the real guns When you learn for the next time That you belong to the kind of underpeople When the secret service will still you your conscience Then you will get to know the face of artificial people Maybe you are a young rebel And you build the artificial barricades Now you're the aim to be destroyed The artificial people will desire you to die Don't pretend the artificial sacrifice Keep your life only for you There is no need for more heroes 'Cause like them you'll end up in the grave

PROGRESS/Postep (1984) You changed the stake into the electric chair There is no guillotine but there is halter instead Modern mankind tired and sick A man chained to the TV Development - of a war technique Progress - in the mass killing Growing in number - victims of society Mechanization - of humanity You changed arrows into machine guns The same violence but with different methods From the natural jungle to the concrete one A modern man with a computer in his head Technical progress is breaking into every place Now it's easier to live, but it's easier to die Modern mankind tired and sick A modern man dies in a modern way POISONED AIR/Zatrute Powjetrze (1984) Your clothes are too small for me The walls in the room are too close to each other The overcrowded bus squeezes life out of me I can't breathe, there is gas in the air Silent patrols control the streets They want to see you every step There is not enought space for me and you I can't breathe, there is gas in the air Poison, poison in our brains Poisoned bodies multiply Poisoned imagination threatens existence Social madness finishes me off No one can intimidate me any longer No one can force me to escape There's nowhere to run anyway I'm suffocating, there is a gas in the air BEING ENSLAVED/Ulegjosc (1985) You surrender to influences You surrender to facts You surrender to easy ideas more and more You stop being yourself, they are changing you You know only clichés, nothing more Quit or change even faster You surrender to buddies, they control you You do what they ask You are enslaved more and more, you surrender You become another person, they are changing you You know only chichés, nothing more Quit or change even faster POLISH PLAYBOYS/Polska Zjota (1985) Simple music, stupid words This is the Polish youth, united and ready Whistling louts, fascination with camp Those are Polish teenages, who are nothing Polish playboys Quarreling and weak Polish playboys Noisy and dumb Senseless and aimless, divided and hateful Commercialism, fashion, money, envy Designer-jeans, girls, disco, school Those are Polish teenages, quiet and happy I WAS BORN 20 YEARS AFTER THE WAR/Zo Lat Powojnie (1985) People were happy that the war was over that now there would be only joy and laughter People were happy that freedom is coming that the war was over, there would be peace People were happy that man wouldn't kill man that everyone would be happy that reason would triumph over the stupidity People were happy that the army wouldn't fight with the other army that there wouldn't be no smoke from the chimneys of concentration camps People were happy that the trace of death has vanished And I was born 20 years after the war I haven't found the peace here I was born 20 years after the war and there is no joy and no peace, no hope, no freedom What makes people hate? money? fear? propaganda? divisions? violence? slavery? jealously? ambitions? People were happy that eveil was over when the politicians signed the treaty Now they are producing new evil unconsciously Evil that leads to the new war People have forgotten what they're promised They've forgotten about joy and pride They've forgotten they were to be happy They've forgotten they are people Now, they pretend they are upset when they look at the graves of the dead They pretend they feel danger Tehy pretend they care for the whole world They pretend they fight for peace and freedom They pretend they are people, because they've forgotton they are people WHO?/Kto (1983) Who dictated fashions? Who makes everything look the same? Who builds guns? Who washes your brains? Who invents gods? Who makes you believe in them? Who makes you die? Who makes you live? Who teaches about the grenades? Who teaches about peace? Who forbids thinking? Who talks about robbery? Who complains? Who creates problems? Who wants a new war? Who says that it is us who want it? Who dictates fashions? Who directs you? Who drenches you with stupidity? Who cheats you? Who ruins Afghanistan? Who shoots in El Salvador? Who always laughs? Who can do everything? . . . THE SAME PEOPLE! 21st CENTURY/XXI Wiek (1984) Twenty first century Secret occupation Twenty first century Degeneration Twenty first century Confusion and hunger Twenty first century Extermination of nations Twenty first century Concentration camps Twenty first century Crematorium chimneys Twenty first century Politicians and scoffers Twenty first century Legal murders THE SWINDLE/Szwindel (1983) They will set up a monument of a new hero They will elect a new prime minister They will elect a new political system And they will be proud that it is democratic A new swindle is prepared Again they want to get to your head You can't always get mugged Don't let yourself be killed - live! They cheat, they laugh They have power, they kill They are stong cause they have guns They want to kill, the sons of a bitch We know all about wars The false order should be changed We don't want your wisdom We don't want artificial freedom