Mantra - Stay Quiet lyrics
[Intro x2] Stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet Stay quiet [Hook] Nobody cares what you have to say It'll only fall on deaf ears anyway Type of sh** around here happens every day So put on a brave face, stay in your place and stay quiet Nobody cares what you have to say Nobody here's gonna hear what you advocate Keep opinions to yourself and stay out the way It's game time and there's money to make So stay quiet [Verse 1] You have the right to remain silent Blind to the footage of state violence and race riots Ignorant of an international aid crisis The ever-present epidemic of the AIDS virus As Congolese militia rape and mutilate minors United Nation troops displaying the same vices The infant mortality rate rises Alongside disease, famine and the real estate prices See, we all in a war, but they were claimed by it You got paid by it Taking lives just to increase the trade of a blood stained diamond And we act dismayed by it, but all the same buy it This inhumane science Be the reason decent people we can never dream of meeting lie awake crying Hide away in isolation Since living in darkness better than dying in the daylight is Lightning lights up ominous grey skies and ignites the horizon Tyrants deciding the future of a land, where the stray bullets flying And sirens ain't warning the mortars they're firing Peace talks will never pause, they're conspiring The war never cease, we keep it transpiring Nerves of steel, lips permanently sealed We conceal how we really feel Feeling consoled by the quiet [Hook] Nobody cares what you have to say It'll only fall on deaf ears anyway Type of sh** around here happens every day So put on a brave face, stay in your place and stay quiet Nobody cares what you have to say Nobody here's gonna hear what you advocate Keep opinions to yourself and stay out the way It's game time and there's money to make So stay quiet [Verse 2] Uh, stay quiet You have the right to remain silent Uninformed, miseducated and compliant Confounded, confused, intimidated and scared by it Keep your attention span brief and your mind divided Resources been torn from a war zone Exported, then implanted in the back of your cell phone So what you know about an economic episode? Three nations feuding in a region set to explode But you ain't gotta travel the Zaire To know what became of the Congo, it's right here Couple centuries ago you're all pioneers Landed up in Sydney with the very same idea You got something they want, they finna take it Ain't a problem if you got here first or born native Ain't a problem if the land you live on considered sacred Ain't a problem, unless we say it So take it and stay quiet [Hook] Nobody cares what you have to say It'll only fall on deaf ears anyway Type of sh** around here happens every day So put on a brave face, stay in your place and stay quiet Nobody cares what you have to say Nobody here's gonna hear what you advocate Keep opinions to yourself and stay out the way It's game time and there's money to make So stay quiet [Outro x2] Stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet, quiet, stay, stay, stay quiet