Although We Claimed To Be Wise (Remixed and Extended)

by Barrowclough

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1.	Everything Is Not Okay (Ebenezer Mix) 04:31	lyrics
Lampoon the underclass. Spoonfeed the inquisitive. Cultural regression starts here. Where's the professors? Where's the successors? Where's the success? When sex sucks and we're like dead ducks Selling ourselves for ten bucks. Recently autonomy has got to me And falling apart is not what it's cracked up to be. I always thought it sat uncomfortably With a race that are basically sheep without the woolly jumpers. That means we're shivering, searching for a shepherd. We thought we'd found some but we were chasing after crooks. We've been learning all the lessons When probably we should have been burning all the books. So this is progress: A century of bloodshed, A prozac generation, On every corner a Mcds? So this is liberation: A thousand shades of lipstick And a surgeon who makes you look like they tell you you should be. Everything is not okay. We are moving backwards.
2.	Then And Now (Papa November Mix) 03:03	lyrics
I was always going to a gangster Before thugs were invented. Never smile in public, Getting gold fronts from the dentist. Never pull my pants up, Probably purchase a firearm, lick shots at polo while bumping Ice Cube from my hire car. I was going to slang rocks and hustle fools, Walk down Corporation Street encrusted in jewels. But now I look back- this is a joke. I flick through my iPod- my favourite genre is alternative folk!
3.	Only One (Barrowclough Mix) 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Isn't it great how Bill Gates can build crates of plastic and steel plates into machines to replace your real mates Whether the smartest or the brightest, artists or writers or even gamers? But he ain't gonna save us. It's a thing of beauty how Wayne Rooney plays through the tightest defence like they were standing on parade duty And with some luck he can abduct the world cup from our European neighbours But he ain't gonna save us.
4.	Scar City (Greybeard Mix) 03:43	lyrics
We're coming live from Scar City Where scarcity's the norm. The formation of the clouds suggests there'll be a storm. It's warmer than a sauna War torn and forlorn. Live from Scar City. Raise your swords and blow your horns.
5.	Left Right (Saccage Mix) 04:04	lyrics
Left. Right. What rights are left? What respite? Right. Left. Sidestep til my death, This is my breath. Forget about the next life- I've set my sights. I have the right to breathe The right to eat Right to sleep Clothes on my back to p[rotect from frostbite. The right to earn enough for the bills I'm trying to meet The right to learn to right I think you heard me right. The right for men in white to check my pulse when my chest's tight So I can breathe a sigh of relief To have friends and a family tree Thats a right that's applying to me
6.	Freezing Fog (Nightstalker 5000 Mix) 07:01	lyrics
We hate being lost but we don't want to be found Find a man with a map and we follow him round And round and round- where's autonomy now? We hate being lost but we don't want to be found
7.	Necessary Kneeling 03:17	lyrics
Are you happy living life on your knees?
8.	With 03:10	lyrics
Is it you with me or is it me with you?

about

Barrowclough's 2013 EP 'Although We Claimed To Be Wise' has been roughed up, kicked in and left face down in the mud. With a couple of bonus tracks thrown in for good measure, it's the same impassioned polemic against pride, moral relativism and the myth of progress, it just sounds a bit scruffier.