A pair of finely crafted and powerful songs addressing pain and ongoing social problems from the Liverpool indie pop band fronted by singer and songwriter Louisa Roach from the acclaimed 2018 album Revolution of Mind. Something For The Pain imagines a conversation in the future with an immigrant, someone forced from their own nation, but ending up in a country, presumably the UK, with its own problems – displacement, unemployment from automation, social control, a loss of identity. The style has a slower, country feeling, a melancholy, ironic passive slant, but Resister, a call to arms, particularly from a female point of view, takes more active turn, pumped-up in pace, energised, angry, motivated, not taking it anymore. Roach herself has a strong social ethical message in her music. She became a mother, then went back college as a mature student to gain a masters degree in psychology, then decided to venture in music, which may have helped inspire the album title.
Smiled upon a stranger in the blue marble basement
Her words were out of time and her eyes were all vacant
From the static reception, the latest mutation
Of the old escalating, consumption of hatred
Said my people got no name and we don't have a nation
We know our place is waiting on your minds liberation
There’s a glitch in the system, of conventional wisdom
‘Till we make our decision to get up and give them
Walls for the wind
Shelter from the rain
Something for the hunger
And something for the pain
They hailed it as the dawn of a new civilisation
They didn't need the workers they had full automation
Technological vision, our subliminal prison
‘Till we made our decision, to get up and build them
Walls for the wind
Shelter from the rain
Something for the hunger
And something for the pain
Justice rolled like water and the paradigm shifted
Freedom was the reason, but the script had got twisted
And so we moved onto, this significant junction
A legitimate function, of the means of production
Walls for the wind
Shelter from the rain
Something for the hunger
And something for the pain
Oppose the flow, or take the role
They’re only asking for your body and soul
And your mind is not your own
Until you comprehend their forms of control
All the underdogs, black sheep
Fighters of the powers that be
In tenements, high rises
Freedom fighters, the outsiders
‘Cos some of us are healing
And some of us are feeding a pain
We just need to speak it
So we can proceed again
Hey sister, don't let your heart close its fist yeah
You got to, get up up be a resister
You got to, get up up be a resister
Sometimes it’s too much you know
And now I know they’ve got you feeling down low
But there’s just one way to dig ourselves from this hole
‘Cos true change only comes from below
Breeze riders, occupiers, residing
In otherwise sidelined quarters
On doorways, on corners, and borders
‘Cos some of us are healing
And some of us are feeding a pain
And we just need to speak it
So we can proceed again
Hey sister, don't let your heart close its fist yeah
You got to, get up up be a resister
You got to, get up up be a resister
Hey sister, don't let your heart close its fist yeah
You got to, get up up be a resister
You got to, get up up be a resister
The slackers, the sleepless, the homeless, the loners
Sex workers with a service, street workers risking murder
On council estates reclaiming space, from ethical leaders
And we just need to speak it so we can proceed again
Hey sister, don't let your heart close its fist yeah
You got to, get up up be a resister
You got to, get up up be a resister
Hey sister, don't let your heart close its fist yeah
You got to, get up up be a resister
You got to, get up up be a resister
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