Asian Dub Foundation - The Round-Up lyrics

When you hear the march of the drum You know they're gonna blot out the sun When you hear the marching drum You know your time soon come Hammer coming down fast Flag is flying full mast shield your eyes from the blast You know it won't be the last it's a round-up It's a round up Rifle bu*ts through the door Then you're kicked to the floor Headlines screaming for more Now You're a prisoner of war In the round-up It's a round-up This is a countdown To the crackdown Time to take a little trip downtown (It's a Round up) get in the lineup there ain't no let-up This is a bona fide government stick up (It's a round-up) From the fit up Straight to the lock-up Through the touchup and the drug up to the rough up It's just a start up So watch it speed up It ain't enough to just put-up and shut-up DIS IS A ROUND-UP Shining boots of leather mind at the end of the tether charges cobbled together The sentence is forever It's a round-up It's a round up stone floor for a bed with a hood on the head helicopters overhead maybe I'm already dead It's a round up This is a round up when you hear dem march of the drum You know they're gonna blot out the sun When you hear the marching drum You know your time soon come Your time soon come Dem come for de rasta and you say nothing dem come for the m**ms you say nothing Dem come for the anti-globalists you say nothing Dem even come for the liberals and you say nothing dem com for you And who will speak for you? Who will speak for you This is a countdown To the crackdown Time to take a little trip downtown (It's a Round up) get in the lineup there ain't no let-up This is a bona fide government stick up (It's a round-up) From the fit up Straight to the lock-up Through the touchup and the drug up to the rough up It's just a start up So watch it speed up It ain't enough to just put-up and shut-up DIS IS A ROUND-UP