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Spaceland

by Organizing Rocks

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1.
Spaceland 03:27
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The world is in orbit around you They come, you stay The world is in orbit around you They leave, you pay They emerge like worker bees Honey-makers, from your hive They emerge like worker bees You’re the queen, mother of all Northern lights, dreams and hopes Raise the anchor, cut the ropes Blue mountains, red sky Spaceland, time to fly There is an army of spacemakers Mutant insects, marked by rust There is an army of spacemakers Filling your veins, eating your crust The trains leave for outer space An ant trail, to eternity The trains leave for outer space A piece of you, never to return Northern lights, dreams and hopes Raise the anchor, cut the ropes Blue mountains, red sky Spaceland, time to fly Spaceland, don’t deny, don’t pretend That this is a story without an end Your curse, their glory Your destiny, their story Northern lights, dreams and hopes Raise the anchor, cut the ropes Blue mountains, red sky Spaceland, time to fly
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We the north 05:09
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The story of the north A seeping flow A one-way road By truck, river, train Left is what was All else down the drain Who decides, who says Who knows Who stays To find out, to decide The strategy of the rest Reaping the one-way tide It’s not the rock It’s not the river It’s not the mountain It’s not the tree It’s the things in between That the rest don’t see So don’t blame the rock, river, mountain and the tree The questions to the north It’s power over words It’s power over distance The method of the rest No room for resistance It’s not the rock It’s not the river It’s not the mountain It’s not the tree It’s the things in between That the rest don’t see So don’t blame the rock, river, mountain and the tree Listen, Iron, power, tree Listen How do you feel Listen Spirit, flower, bee Listen An impossible deal Repeat, Iron, power, tree Repeat, How do you feel Repeat, Spirit, flower, bee Repeat, An impossible deal Show me the border Show me the line Between you and me Between past and now It’s an invisible divide Making worlds collide It’s not the rock It’s not the river It’s not the mountain It’s not the tree It’s the things in between That the rest don’t see So don’t blame the rock, river, mountain and the tree
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Kiruna you maggot 04:46
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Kiruna you maggot Blowing in my face Sucking my cheeks Icing my shoes Where is the sun Vampire mosquitoes The melting ice The days that never end Bring it on Let your warm winds Wash over me Tell the high mountains The creeks and the lakes The reindeer and the grouse To watch over me Living alone In a community Loving wild nature In a mining town Kiruna you maggot A paradox of the north A rainbow story In a granite dress Bring it on Let your warm winds Wash over me Tell the high mountains The creeks and the lakes The reindeer and the grouse To watch over me A one-way street in a freeway world A one-way street in a freeway world A one-way street in a freeway world The Spaceland gaze An island in the north A rainbow story In a granite dress Bring it on Let your warm winds Wash over me Tell the high mountains The creeks and the lakes The reindeer and the grouse To watch over me
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Us local people 04:14
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A room of ties, camera flashes Silver grey speaks, its all nature What about locals? The crowd asks What local people? The grey says No mans land, says local people It’s on loan, to freely roam Herding reindeers, telling stories Chanting the yoik, for at least 2500 years Us global people, we the few We the elite, earth’s real nomads We will fight. and keep tell What local people? What local people? Us local people We the few, we the north We in Sápmi, we will fight To claim our rights Laplanders in a territorial vague land Don’t call it clash of civilization In the name of mixophobia and purity Recognize the property rights view Where to own (choir: All things are commoditised) Is to control (choir: All things are optimized) Is to rule (choir: All things are capitalized) Is to exploit (choir: We are all victimized) Be it animals, plants or people Be it minerals, soil or rocks In a legal room, full of suits and Gákti There was heat, but only one part will take the beat A man with a black tie, but with the white noise Spoke in the name of the business model In the silent court, a woman voiced Through syllabic improvisation The Sámi tongue, called for luondu And all things intrinsic value The judge favoured, capital injection Said goodbye with bang for your buck But we will fight to keep our right What else can we do?
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Labouring to learn (The Tonny Huzzard Song) 04:30
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Worker, why do you sleep Why do you slumber so deep Time to rise, rise to work You must labour to learn Worker, you’re not a fool Making out, behind the tool Don’t fear the machine, just be lean No ignorance here The will to learn, learning to labour The need to earn, to sell your power The will to learn, learning to labour The story is old, sent from the tower Turn it around, labouring to learn Reveal it all, the Tony Huzzard song Some say you’re lazy by nature They’re wrong, there’s a mirror on the wall Worker, I see your true creature Follow me and stand tall Stories made, stories told This one you might want to know No need to hide, no need to pretend I’m capital’s best friend The will to learn, learning to labour The need to earn, to sell your power The will to learn, learning to labour The story is old, sent from the tower Turn it around, labouring to learn Reveal it all, the Tony Huzzard song
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Metal machine emotions 02:25
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I know my pearl Every sound and every movement She surprises me Knocking my bones and shocking my senses I listen to pearl She tells me when the wheels loose its grip When to take a break When to relax and when to be intense Metal machine emotions A strange sensation Metal machine emotions Call it the truckin effect Never letting me down Going upwards at 25 degrees I love my pearl, Thousands of miles, thousands of thoughts 12 gears and 12 wheels Roaring through the darkness I care for my pearl Machine against rocks and water She is too good to be here A short and brutish life Metal machine emotions A strange sensation Metal machine emotions Call it the truckin effect Never letting me down Going upwards at 25 degrees
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After method 08:02
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What is a labour process? Where does it begin and end? Who and what does it contain? Where does it appear? And who are loosing out? What is power? Is it power over? Is it power through? Or power with? Or all of the above? Rather be a stigmatic than a dogmatic An outsider than a conservative They say fairy-tale, we say story telling They say normative, we say sensitive Pushing the boundaries is hard But harder to keep to comfort zones Pushing the boundaries is hard Why eat same method greens? After method Breaking might and freight After method Breaking tradition and rigidity Who has the chance to tell? Whose experience count? What is excluded? The relation between them and us? Our laboratory and theirs? What is proper science? Whose account count? What are truths and facts? What are right conditions? And who judges whom? Why believe in programs? Having multiple realities? Why mirror reality? If it is about interferences? Why keep distance? When there’s a lack of closeness? Why arguing for sameness? When difference is what we have? Rather be a stigmatic than a dogmatic An outsider than a conservative They say fairy-tale, we say story telling They say normative, we say sensitive Pushing the boundaries is hard But harder to keep to comfort zones Pushing the boundaries is hard Why eat same method greens? After method Breaking might and freight After method Breaking tradition and rigidity After method…
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Free spirits (no more lies) 05:37
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Working the gates, its Jekyll and Hyde Helmet and boots, rifles and rods On the ice, the scooter sets you free Harvest time is now, for you and for me They try to control you, but you find your way Day and night, in the (deep) dark cave The motor is running, there’s smoke in your eyes No space for promises, no time for lies No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you can get No sorrows, no regrets, don’t remember, just forget History is long and harvest time is now No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you get Why go to college, learn from a book Head to the coast, play with the posh When the mine is full of plenty more When life above ground builds on iron ore Why use the ladder, be a boy in white Can’t disagree in the face of greed Feed their machine, take the stress and pain Head down the hole, face the world again No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you can get No sorrows, no regrets, don’t remember, just forget History is long and harvest time is now No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you get Free spirits, the mountains high You know them to use them, they speak to you Can’t hear their voice, can’t hear their song Long live the grouse and the grouse is dead No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you can get No sorrows, no regrets, don’t remember, just forget History is long and harvest time is now No sorrows, no regrets, you take what you get
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Back to the mountain 03:30
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Back to the mountain The village was the same Back to the mountain The people was the same Back for the mountain Lost my job down south Back for the mountain But the work has changed Back inside the mountain Long hours, stunning pace Back inside the mountain Gotcha get paid Coming from the past The mine continues its future Being in the present It sticks to its past It defies everyone who leave Back to the mountain Its my past, my present, my future Back to the mountain It has defined who I am Coming back to the mountain…
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Roots 04:41
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The grip is strong Both hands ’round the trunk I pull with all my power It starts to give in I pull with all my power But it tires me out Roots in the ground A city with no roots It’s not a city It’s a trailer park It’s a trailer park Rootless society It’s not a society It’s a marketplace [CHORUS] It’s society, not giving in It’s society, not giving up It’s society, in the face of flex-i-bi-lit-y It’s the roots, that keeps pulling back It’s the roots, that keep us in place It’s the roots, that give us all i-dent-i-ty Rootmaker, rootdigger Six towers a day Tunnels made Roads paved Empty voids to fill By trucks, cars and dust Six towers a day Roots underground Subcommandentes of life A guerilla underneath Not seen, yet felt No one can hide But all can run Roots underground [CHORUS] Tearing them up Makes you believe Then it’s too late To have them back When they go They’re forever gone Can’t have them back There’re ghosts in the holes Spirits of the past Haunting the cave Searching for peace Be freed from it all These are spiritual roots These are spiritual roots [CHORUS] A white dog in dissaray An invisible passenger Underground stories Of workers long gone Who’ll never be again These are spiritual roots These are spiritual roots [CHORUS] Time in the mine Has to be cut A plague to erase But it keeps coming back Time don’t care It keeps coming back It keeps coming back Work must be fast Time must be slow Workers cannot be But time cannot run Time don’t care Time cannot run Time cannot run [CHORUS]

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Organizing Rocks are: Tommy Jensen, Johan Sandström and Michał Zawadzki

Tommy Jensen: guitars, bass, keyboards, back- and lead vocals.
Johan Sandström: vocals
Michał Zawadzki: drums

Recorded during 2015, mainly in Tommy’s living room, but also in Erik Björkén’s living room and a hotel room in Kiruna. All drums recorded in Krakow.

All instruments, except drums, arranged by Tommy Jensen

Mixing: Jarek Wyka and Tommy Jensen
Mastering: Jarek Wyka (Lubelstudio)

Artwork: Johan Sandström

More info: www.organizingrocks.org

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released June 4, 2016

Thanks to the miners who have warmheartedly invited us to share their working life and life experiences with us. Thanks to Erik Björkén, Molly Jensen and Pia Jensen for lending us your voices. Thank you, Mikael Jonasson, for kindly lending us your acoustic guitar on several occasions in Kiruna (your hear it on Roots).

Musical life is, as Bob Dylan said, all about love and theft. So, thanks Ben, Bob, David, Iggy, Jimi, Joakim, Neil, Nick, and Polly Jean.

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Tommy Jensen: guitars, bass, keyboards, back- and lead vocals.
Johan Sandström: vocals
Michał Zawadzki: drums

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