Social Insecurity - Citizen Fish

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Growling as I stare at smiles from the other side of the street/is it the
speed I'm walking at or the shoes upon my feet?/I couldn't afford the baseball
boots that's not the game I play/and if you'd rather hang about I won't get in
your way/if the words you backhand to your friend were meant for me to hear/
I'll show you a better way to spend your time over a beer/or a coffee - come
on mutant-head! let's drop the social games/call it a bluff call it enough
quit calling eachother names/there's hardly any difference in the nature of
the threat/some like to be remebered by the reaction they can get/others need
security in a certain social set/bth are too aware of what they yet still have
to get/is no one ever satisfid with being what they are?/if you show me all
your barbed wire I'll only show you scars/but tell me where you got it from
and what it costs in friends/and I'll start to get a picture of a person not
a trend/ignorance and affinity to outsode influence/rejects the inner feeling
at anyone's expense/what provoked attack was the bature of defence/the weak
are strong in knowing that such strength is all pretence/so while you're
staring at me I'll be grinning back at you/at various intensities we'll both
know it's true/that what eachother represents is an image we've been fed/If
I'm a f**king waste of space than you're a mutant head/so let's discuss these
attitudes and find some common ground/just doing that is ground enough to
exorcise the sound of insults, sights of malice, inbred scorn and ignorance/
once beyond the posing we can find the relevance

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Citizen Fish are a ska punk band formed in 1989. Based around Bath, England, the original members were Dick Lucas (vocals/words), Jasper (bass), Trotsky (drums), and Larry (guitar). Following their first album, Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Larry left the band and was replaced by Phil, who, along with Dick and Trotsky, had previously been a member of the seminal British punk band, the Subhumans. Jasper and Dick had previously played together in Culture Shock. In 2006 Silas replaced Trotsky, who is still playing with the Subhumans.

The band is known for their lyrics, which often make strong social and political statements, dealing with themes such as anti-consumerism, vegetarianism, questioning of the status quo, and the general encouragement of people to get along with one another.

It is rumored that the band Citizen Dick from the movie Singles is an homage to Citizen Fish and its lead singer.

In 2006 they toured with and recorded a split LP with punk band Leftöver Crack. This was the first Fish activity in recent years, as the members have been concentrating on Subhumans activity as of late (they did do a small East Coast/Midwest U.S. tour consisting of off-the-map bars and basements in the summer of 2005, much to the delight of dedicated fans).
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