Radical reads Manchester Art Gallery

Rage Rage against the machine

(after Dylan Thomas and Rage against the machine)

First performed in Manchester Art Gallery for Radical Reads/Manchester Histories Commemoration of the  Peterloo Massacre and Protest 200 years ago.

With input from pupils from Abraham Moss and Loreto. 

Rage, Rage against the machine

Switch off your computer screens

Wake up from this borrowed dream

Rage, Rage Against the machine

Sharpen your pencils

Fill your pens with ink

Don’t play out with collusion

In these long days of confusion

Rage, Rage against the machine

Don’t sleep walk into silent slumber

Silence is compliance

Reist louder

Wake up from this silent slumber

Don’t let anyone turn you into number

And if they do shout like thunder

Rage, Rage against the machine

Wake up from this borrowed dream

Put the windows out

Tear down all walls

Misbehave

Scream and shout

Rage, Rage against the machine

Do not go gently into fight or flight

Know your right

Know your rights

Memorise them

Tattoo them to your heart

Memorise your rights

Rage, Rage against the machine

Wake up from this borrowed dream

Let your mind transcend all borders

Tear them down 

Like wild marauders

Dare to question

Stop all clocks

Make up your own time

To waste time is not a crime

It belongs to you

Rage, rage against the machine

The children see

They witness everything to

Let them go on strike

Iet the children right the wrongs

Rage, Rage against the machine

Wake up from this borrowed dream

Copyright Louise Wallwein