Black Angels, The - Currency Lyrics

ya i have to admit i was mistaken about this band and my stake in things

Dat thundercat poster in the beginning

Here are 10 ways that you can help collapse all of the pyramids of control.
1. Media and Intelligence – Information is knowledge and knowledge is power — this is where it all starts. Turn off the TV, stop passively receiving information that turns you into an idiot at the teat of the “idiot box.” Get creative: start a blog, a neighborhood newsletter, radio show, public access TV or YouTube channel, write encouraging letters to companies you appreciate and nasty ones to those you boycott; DO something; anything to increase awareness. Homeschooling is another great way to help short circuit the negative influences of systematic programming. Even if you don’t agree with homeschooling, or are not able, there are concepts that you can help introduce into your public school to enhance education. Intelligence – there are technologies to thwart constant surveillance, as well as low-tech solutions to high-tech tyranny. The Internet is being used to surveil the public, but it also provides an opportunity for the public to surveil and report the real criminals. Use the system against itself.
2. Health and Agriculture – Why do tyrannical systems always move to declare methods of independence such as farming, vitamins, raw milk, and natural medication like cannabis as underground contraband systems that threaten the health of society? Clearly because this is a cornerstone of freedom. Learn to make your own medicines, trade on the underground, support other states (and countries) who have embraced food freedom, and stand your ground by forming local community resistance against food and health tyranny. Moreover, simply making your mind and body stronger by pursuing what is natural and healthy will give you more power to challenge the system in every other way.
3. Energy and Technology – Support true economic development and pursue open source solutions to all technological problems that can affect humanity on the widest scale. These are the technologies that have been suppressed in the past, their creators destroyed; but now there are too many people pursuing goals to free humanity. Embrace innovation and technology, but only as it leads to self-empowerment, self-determination, and genuinely helps the human and environmental condition. There are reportedly many free-energy patents being kept from the public. These technologies can’t be kept secret forever as long as the Internet remains free and open. Support all efforts to maintain Internet freedom and the right to pursue innovation.
4. Mobility and Flexibility – Always be willing to adapt and move. The structure of tyranny might be global, but there are always pockets of freedom that tyranny ignores — normally based on economic interest. Become adaptable, don’t buy into the “American Dream” of having possessions to define your self-worth. Once you discard the unimportant things, look for specific towns, states, or countries to escape economic decline and those which promote freedom. It’s a difficult decision to pick up and move, especially when extended family comes into play, but discuss your ideas and the evidence for your concerns openly and honestly, and be the first to pioneer the building of a new future — if things begin to collapse in earnest, you will soon be sought after by those who once doubted your “crazy” reasoning.

5. Prepare for the Worst – Along the same lines as being mobile and flexible, make sure that you store enough supplies to get through a few months or more of tough times. The current system relies on your dependence and they can easily control those who live just-in-time lifestyles. Most people don’t realize how much they “need” the system until something like a blizzard knocks out their power and wipes out the grocery store shelves. It’s wise to store back-up food, have the ability to produce food, gather tools and other items needed during power outages or other disasters, and actively pursue any and all other survival prepping and self-sufficiency techniques.
6. Refuse to Pay Unjust Debt – This is a moral decision based on the information that much of what was created to be a “loan” was based on a predatory system. As they say, ignorance of the law is no excuse, and that is duly noted, but when confronted with an enemy that has deliberately contrived devious ways to steal productivity and the fruits of honest labor, then the principle of justifiable self-defense is invoked. Forget about your credit score; it is the invisible chain that keeps you in prison. Refuse to pay debts that you know were fraudulently imposed. Remember, the banks never had the money they “lent” to you in the first place; they created it out of nothing to buy your servitude. If you are hesitant to simply quit paying the criminal banks, then learn how to reduce your exposure to all debts.

7. Create New Banking Systems – We have seen economic collapse taking down countries like dominoes across the third world, and now the first. These money junkies cannot and will not stop. It is up to us to develop systems which permit us to completely withdraw our support for the current system and shield us from manipulated collapses. This may be the most productive way to break free from modern slavery; whether it’s switching to local credit unions, storing precious metals instead of cash, engaging in barter systems or using alternative currencies, or supporting full-blown monetary reform.
8. Learn a Skill – Learn as many skills outside of your day job as possible. This can be as simple as giving more attention to your hobbies like fishing, hunting, gardening, painting, blogging, tinkering on cars, building things, sewing, cooking, etc. Whatever useful skill you’re most passionate about, learn more about it, become an expert at it, and acquire the necessary tools to start a side business with it. By doing this, you’ll reduce the dependence on your job and find much more fulfillment in life. Remember, skills are the only form of wealth that can’t be taken from you. Additionally, form clubs or partnerships with your neighbors and share your skills and tools to form a stronger community that will be resistant to whatever the systems of control throw your way.
9. Boycott – Activists have enjoyed many recent victories through boycott, most notably the rapid removal of “pink slime” meat from major supermarket chains following public outcry once they became aware of the product. It goes to show that the public still holds the power over corporations, but the masses must be educated before they’re moved to action. Not you though. Readers of this post know exactly what companies to boycott and why. Start living your principles and follow through on your knowledge. Voting with your dollars DOES work, but not if the aware crowd refuses to do it.
10. Taxes – Taxes are the most controversial of all — the one that catches the most flak, so the one that must be most directly over the target. How do you feel knowing that money is extracted from you by force to be injected into systems around the world that create violence, rip apart cultures, and put us on a path of complete annihilation and self-destruction? This is slave-like thinking in its highest form of denial. No Constitution of any country anywhere in the world openly recognizes that it is lawful to forcefully extract money you have earned enslaving you for life to kill others with it, upon penalty of imprisonment. It’s the final chain to be broken, and is admittedly the thickest. But how can a machine be built without the funding to build it? The entire prison system we see around us has been built with our own money. Did you authorize it? Did you authorize the preemptive wars, bank bailouts, corporate subsidies, the high-tech surveillance grid that enslaves you?
Significantly, these are all things you can do on your own. You don’t need to influence politicians, or ignite a mass protest, or wait for an uprising. There is no cavalry coming. You are the change you seek. Get out there and become more self-reliant and the system will lose its grip on you. If enough of us do this, the system will fall apart by its own unsustainable making. Refuse to be a slave today and unchain others by sharing this article and implementing the tips on this list.

"TAXATION IS THEFT"

You missed the point completely. By at least a mile.

@enter.the.void.II no you missed it kid...

i play this song every night to my kid when i put him to bed.

pretty fkn sick

... This was playing in Shack... Im amazed I remember this

What an epic song indeed! ;)

Same band as -You on the run-??

Its great 👍
Have a great day ✨

I'm here because I was googling "Black Angels" and stumbled upon this video and band.. I'm so glad I did. - I felt this... This is incredible! 👌🏽

The bleeding boy in the end was dark, but so true. We are killing our new generations. We had to grow up in this madness, we shouldnt do it to our children.

These cats simply get better and better. If only they'd come to New Zealand!

Great song!

moral of the story..
don't play baseball.
do drugs & make music instead.

“One day.... !!!!!! “
Yes !!!!
Fuk it!!!!!!!

Dolar 7 TL iken dinlenecek şarkı

I love this unconditionally.

Epic and refreshing to hear something interesting and new that’s definitely a current matter of our day lives ✌🏼👍

moral of the story, buy a better glove and save yourself a lifetime of misery

I like this track.

Always thought the singer was a lady.......

Saw these guys for first time on Austin City Limits last nite. Nice!

you guys are awesome

Ohman! THis sounds wonderful. I found your band from Kyle Hunt's Demo for Fender of a guitar.

This is such a cool song with an unforgettable rift

2:11 is that Glenn Danzig?

One day it'll all be over...but if I'm at that poker table, I still want to win ;)

2 lefties in one band? nice.

Kind of sounds like tool

Por favor, venham pra São Paulo de novo. Não consegui vê-los ano passado, mas ainda quero poder ver essa banda com meus próprios olhos. Esse som é... tipo... de outro mundo.

Banda com um som tridimensional... Psicodélico de alta qualidade!

Perfect

3:27 That guy looks very much like Roky Erickson in his youth...

All hail S. Bailey!

this song is just so fucking good. I'm obssessed.

Love this track. Feel like I been fighting for cash my whole life. Feelin it.

many things to think about...

1:49 -Jim Morrison is still alive.

Most every band gets worse with age. It's almost a universal truth. These guys however, I mean this may be the best song they've written to date, and that's saying a lot.

Это охуенный клип!

These guys are definitely masters.

s J lol you got add violence as a profile pic, death song and add violence are pieces of art

When YouTube played music videos

haha. Thundercat - Drunk - Album poster in the window at 0:51

Yes!

Heard them perform this at VooDoo Fest! Loved it!

LYRICS - THE BLACK ANGELS "CURRENCY"

Currency, carry me
Everyone is held hostage
Currency, means nothing
Power that you spend us next
Do you want a stake in us?
How you have a stake in us

One day It'll all be over
One day-ay It'll all be gone

I can see, born asleep
All these things in motion ours
All the debt and lives you've sold
There's no truth in who we trust

Print and print, the money that you spend
Spend and the spend, the money that you print

One day It'll all be over
One day-ay It'll all be gone

I can see currency
How it always sanctions us
All these paper lies you sold
There's no god in who you trust

Print and print, the money that you spend
Spend and the spend, the money that you print

One day It'll all be over
One day-ay It'll all be gone
And you will all be gone one day
Yeah you will all be gone one day

You've paid with your life
A slave from nine to five
You're spent through us
You take from us when we die
So claim the diamonds in your eyes

Cool song, boring video

Imagine how great society would be if we just had the honor system for replacing what we each took for ourselves. No more greed!...probably. No more slavery to 'earn' shit we want. Imagine just selfless consumerism. Wow! Everyone helping themselves to as much as they need when they feel. I don't get why it always ends up mostly being very successful at killing lots of people collapsing into chaos.
Yet this capitalist slave-plantation merritocracy refuses to collapse!
As I type this from my mobility scooter while in a parrade walk/scoot for fat-American acceptance, its difficult to not lament those luckier than us in Utopic Societies like North Korea, yet we must endure this '1st World' oppressive enslavement. ;_;

*Beautiful music. The lyrics are goofy AF though. Human invention of a universally accepted placeholder for trade instead of having to barter just to eat, is pretty fucking awesome. Humans being extremely consumptive, creating ideas like money is an entitlment bc like consumerism is a basic human right now, is slightly less awesome.*

Does this mean I can pirate them since that isn't currency?

ALL MONEY IS BLOOD MONEY.

I had to quit doing yard work for my grandparents when I realized that I was murdering all those plants. Besides, what did they have to do to earn that money? And so on, down the line.

Thematically, it reminds me of Apathy's "The Buck Stops Here"

Your music is insane guys!

I love you you are cool. I was always inspired by your creativity and greetings to you from the city of Odessa Ukraine you are cool !!!

.......fuck yeah xx

When first heard this song on some video, I thought it was from the 70s lol. Love it 😎

Fucking decent! I feel the visual narrative captured the essence of the song pretty well. Fuck the haters right?

Bought the album. One of my best discoveries in 2017. ✌️🎶

The most boring band ever!!!

I wouldn't mind betting they got the idea of the blood stained money from Heath Ledgers first film. *Two Hands*. Great Aussie film from back in the day. Love these guys.

This song gives me the tingles, awesome track and great album

This song just blows me away!. What a vocal and awesome guitar riffs. Cant stop playing it!

Amazing album, like all other albums

Una de mis bandas favoritas.

Currency carry me everyone is held hostage
Currency means nothing
How are they to spend us next
Do you want a stake in us?
How you have a stake in usOne day it'll all be over
One day it'll all be goneI can see born asleep all these things in motion ours
All the debt and lives you've sold
There's no truth in who we trust
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print thenOne day it'll all be over
One day it'll all be goneI can see currency how it always sanctions us
All these paper lives you've sold
There's no God in who you trust
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print thenOne day it'll all be over one day it'll all be gone
And you will all be gone one day
Yeah you will all be gone one dayYou've paid with your life
A slave from nine to five
You're spent through us
You take from us when we die
So claim the diamonds in your eyes

Expecto Patronum so what is the meaning to the song?

@Steven Bari Its pretty clear. Money controls us. It turns us into selfish savages. Its become our god and it pretty much destroyed the human mind.
Look around you, we are all crazy!

@Frederick Röders Thank god someone understands! If people could only step back and see the truth, they would be shocked.

This band satisfies my inner evil overlord. I already bought my tickets to the Houston show in October and I am super excited to see them again live.

Currency carry me everyone is held hostage
Currency means nothing
How are they to spend us next
Do you want a stake in us?
How you have a stake in us
One day it'll all be over
One day it'll all be gone
I can see born asleep all these things in motion ours
All the debt and lives you've sold
There's no truth in who we trust
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print then
One day it'll all be over
One day it'll all be gone
I can see currency how it always sanctions us
All these paper lives you've sold
There's no God in who you trust
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print
Print and print the money that you spend
Spend and spend the money that you print then
One day it'll all be over one day it'll all be gone
And you will all be gone one day
Yeah you will all be gone one day
You've paid with your life
A slave from nine to five
You're spent through us
You take from us when we die
So claim the diamonds in your eyes

I like that most of the Black Angels songs I've heard have solid, interesting melodies. That doesn't sound too remarkable, but even a lot of so-called pop music today is missing that.

This song gave me socialism

so rapists murders and slave owners (if prostitution were legal less people would be sex slaves) are not worthless human beings? Are you a nihilist or do you not care about the suffering of others?

Do you really want to further fund a state that will ruin your life if you broke some arbitrary law that is not a violent or property crime ie no victim?

If I was poor and given shelter I would want a better shelter in this world sadly resources are finite and human desires are infinite are you seriously gonna ignore my argument or do you think kidneys grow off trees? Actually if we advance enough in biotechnology it could be a reality.

Most of the people stuck in our corrupt justice system are non-violent drug offenders. These people need rehabilitation, not authoritarian punishment. The violent offenders who comprise the minority of our carceral state should obviously be dealt with more harshly. Most of these laws that hurt average non-violent people are put into place by private institutions that lobby and provide money for our politicians through special interests (ie private prisons, lawyers guilds, conservative think tanks etc.) If you eradicate the private influence from government by making it illegal to use money to influence our laws, then laws would only be dictated by the will of the people. This is why I supported Bernie Sanders and his fight to remove outside influence from our government, so that it can function as the founders intended - for the people, not the private profiteers.

are laws on substances not arbitrary?

Did you even read my comment?
Do you think as a libertarian I do not know of the prison industrial complex?
I just said corporatism is still socialism.

I'm still not sure if the song has a relation to socialism or libertarism.. But in the end, we all love this song, also with our mutual ideologies^^

This comment section is what our government, both left and right, want us to do. Divide and conquer

the best band of this last years :)

Bitcoin is coming

good psych

this is Badass!!! D:

I love this band!!!!!!!

Goddamn I love this band

Anyone have guitar tabs for this song they'd like to share?

Fantastic

one of those videos where if you do not pay enough attention to each detail you end up having to re-watch it.

This is quite possibly the most profound song of the last 50 years

Anthony Dallarosa this house of cards is bound to crumble eventually...how long can we prop up the dollar with the barrel of a gun?

This song is literally "money is bad." Not exactly a unique or profound statement.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEffAINE2kQ

It doesn't literally mean 'money is bad' to me, so maybe you just happen to have a very literall way of thinking.

Same as it ever was

Perfection

there is plenty of good music being made now its just older people complaining true its a bit harder to find but it exists.

This song is better than everything on Indigo Meadow

keep rocking mothefuckaas! you're the best!!!! being loyal and a truly fan of yours since your beginning

Really good vocals. I listened to the BJM for so long! Do they live in Iceland?

💯💯💯

Holy fuck, The Black Angels are better than ever now!

been listening for a while now, it's nice to see what y'all finally look like hahaha

Great band! They`ll always remind me first season of True Detective series...

Mudvayne213 Even though you have Mudvayne in your user name I still respect your comment since you have a Deftones logo as your user pic, so you totally redeemed yourself.

Sethel Willi hey, the first mudvayne album was pretty good.

y'all need to put your tours on blue ray

I fkn love this 🔥😈🔥

message received

Killer song

money is a curse.

Thank you!

When to Ukraine?

Fantástico! 5*!!!

Really loved all the cameos! Great video and great song