FOKOFPOLISIEKAR
"Forgive them for they know not what they do"
TIMECODED TRANSCRIPT
DURATION : 52 MIN
ENGLISH / AFRIKAANS (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
FLY ON THE WALL PRODUCTIONS

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Title: Directed by Bryan Little
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The first thing you have to understand is where we, as a sub culture,
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Title: Executive Producer Filipa Domingues
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Title: Director of Photography Grant Appleton
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Or for that matter South Africans in general, come from.
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Your typical South African has characteristics like...
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He is narrow-minded, he is conservative, he is protestant
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In other words he is a Christian,
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Title: Stills Photography Liam Lynch
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He has certain pre-conceived ideas about
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How to raise children,
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Title: Edited by Wim Steytler
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How to do business and all those kinds of things.
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Title: Sound Design Paul Rez
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Title: Animation bi Am I Collective
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He is proud of his family and his family name
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So... there's a group of people
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Who are not really sure who they are
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Title: Fokofpolosiekar forgive them for they know not what they do.
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Title: a film by Bryan Little
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Apartheid played a big role
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In what we have become.
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We are third generation, our parents second,
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Our grandparents and great-grandparents first.
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It had a huge impact on them
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I come from a generation of guys...
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We were conscripted to the army.
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We're still carrying a lot of baggage from the 80's.
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We were placed under sanctions and all our media was censored
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For them, South Africa was the only thing that mattered in the world.
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We were kind of in between this whole thing. We were too young to understand what Apartheid was about, but too old to be part of the people that know nothing about it.
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No, - no comment.
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I think we went through that same thing where we just started questioning everything.
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Why don't we have an identity? Everything. One by one.
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And as you start getting answers, you realize it's bullshit...
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We weren't happy with ourselves.
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We weren't happy with circumstances.
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We weren't happy with friends
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We were just simply pissed off.
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Like... 80% of our conversations had a negative slant.
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It's like it's going to fuck out somehow
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I don't know how, somehow it's going to be fucked up.
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I think when fokof came it was like "Now I'm liberating myself."
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I told everyone now I'm doing this band called Fokofpolisiekar,
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Which is completely out of the norm, and from there I just let everything go.
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All the previous shit-fuck it, fuck everything, fuck everyone.
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Myself and my four best friends are doing this ban. We're making the music.
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We've wanted to do it for years. I liberate myself in all possinle ways, you know.
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I'm not shy anymore; I'm not scared anymore. I just don'y give a fuck anymore.
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And it's not the fuck what you believe in or what you believe in, just me:
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I distance myself and I liberate myself from all that shit.
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Every morning I'm in hell.
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I wake up with flames burning my skin
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Will I ever be able to get up
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Without missing my bed?
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Give me alcohol, give me a life
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Give me advice, give me a reason
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So that I can get up
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Born lost
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And ever time I'll laugh
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It'll only get heavier
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Can I stop living after today?
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It was this absurd idea, Afrikaans punk.
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And we would burst out laughing. It was totally crazy.
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We actually wanted to make English punk rock at that stage.
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I didn't think they were serious. I thought it was weird.
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I thought "Is anyone making cool music in Afrikaans?"
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If you wanted to be cool you had to make music in English.
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That was how we thought at the time.
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No, but listen to me. Do you realize that we're going now,
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And I'm positive, and when we get back nothing is going to be the same.
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You know what I'm saying? We're going to come back with this product...
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That we're going to play in front of people and work our asses off.
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Play the first show in Cape Town. Things are just going to go pear shaped.
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Just a shame I've lost the pouch.
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Pornographic material.
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If you sell marijuana on tour,
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All you do is bring 10 parcels and sell them to your friends locally.
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We also bring a condom in case someone gets lucky.
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That's usually Jaco.
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Your power supply.
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Now, the biggest thing you've been waiting for,
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It's on the T.V, it's in my brain.
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It's terrible to see how the sheep mentality gets us.
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We're all working to..oh
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The sheep mentality gets us, we're all working... OK ,yes..
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I don't think he was really ready for it.
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He juts jumped in, and...
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He shouted more than he sang.
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We were worried
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That it wasn't going to work because it sounded rough
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He was very nervous
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But...
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I think all of us were nervous
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And then he got into the vibe and it sounded...
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...good. which meant success.
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The instructions they gave us
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Work, get married, have kids
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And then possibly suffer from depression
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Someone must ask why
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Someone must ask why
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We all die alone
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I'm just trying to hold on to who I am
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Fucked the entire festival.
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Don't know where we are, what's happening, who we should party with...
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It was so strange...
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Because nobody knew who we were.
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I can't do this shit.
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Like fuck off with the police, my bra (Brother), fuck the cop!
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Come let's go drink!
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Title: 1st gig at Mercury Live: Cape Town Nov 2003
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How was it? No, but really, how was it?
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- I love you guys.
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I love you too
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-Can I get a hug?
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It was befok to be on stage with you.
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- It was great to be stage with you.
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Can you tighten my screws? (Sort me out?)
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Can you find my marbles for me?
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Can you shove your idea of normality up your arse?
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Can you spell apathy?
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Can someone call god.
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And tell him we don't need him anymore?
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Come here. I fucking love you guys and what we're doing is befok.
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I think so too.
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What do you think Johnny?
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I think it's rad.
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That night, that experience we will never have again.
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Title: Johan Nel Film director
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It's heaven on the countryside
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The first time Fokofpolisiekar really drew attention
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Was when I was at the KKNK Arts Festival (If you play with fire, you will get burnt)
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And it was when they hit the scene.(If you play with fire, you will get burnt)
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And it was just when they hit the scene
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The story then broke out about this song "Hemel op die platteland",
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Where they sing... (the devil rocks)
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"Can someone please phone god and tell him we don't need him anymore?"
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And this caused such a stir, (Enough to turn you grey)
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Because very older lady selling vetkoek (greasy pastry),
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And every older man having a barbecue (Fokofpolosiekar rocks church)
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Everybody that was there for the wrong reasons,(Fokofpolosiekar rocks church)
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Not for arts and culture,
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Decided that this is something that they cannot condone.
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It's too close to home and no one can speak out against God.
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The next part of the show needs parental guidance.
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So kids, help your parents.
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A band that enjoys a lot of support from Levi's is Fokofpolosiekar
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After this, they throw their doors open to me.
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I heard you guys were going to take out the "fuck off" out of "fuck off police car"? Is it true?
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We've also heard the rumor.
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The "Fuck off" is the only part we like.
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Have you had any problems
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Wit the name, Fokofpolisiekar, and that the songs have swear words in them?
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We actually though it wouldn't be played anywhere.
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All the guys from F-off police car are here.
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F-off police car has stirred shit over the last few months...
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That's good to hear.
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So it doesn't bother you?
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No, it's OK.
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Fokofpolisiekar consists of 5 guys from Belville in the Cape.
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I feel safe when I'm lost
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When I lie down I feel scared
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Of that nameless man
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Standing on the threshold of every door
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Fuck you
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I fucking know I am wrong
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At least I'm trying to convince myself
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That there is something better for us
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I was actually just looking for a reason to write the word fok in a daily newspaper, cause in my own way I'm also a bit of a shit-stirrer. I went and had a huge battle and eventually my Editor-in-chief at Beeld, Peet Kruger, said 'Hey, this is what these guys call themselves, write the name out in full.' And I was like 'Yay!'
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I don't know what to say. I'm so glad that I can finally use the word fokof. There are so many lot of people I would love to say it to. Firstly, I would like to start with the Nigerian-porno-child-slave-pimps - I wish all of you would take your stuff and fokof out of South Africa
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Amen!
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I feel a lot better. Thank you. Absolutely..

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All of you who don't want gays to get married - you fokof as well. And that gay backline of the Western Province rugby team - fokof as well
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I feel better. I feel better.

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When we started the band we thought it would be better to have people that either really love you, or really hate you. We didn't think that the people that really hated us would actually get so extreme. Obviously we think we can play a positive role but there are many people who don't think so.


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Let's sing about partying in Stellenbosch

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With red wine and cigarettes
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we sit in a minimum security prison

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Let's sing about performing
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in a system of obedience

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Let's sing about your wilting personality

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Destroy yourself Destroy yourself

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There is an urge I feel

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An instinctive hate

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For institutions of consciousness

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Condition me, the bible of pain

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We all stack the coals
We all fan the fire

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We all build the walls that oppose ideas

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We all shit out the rules on which we choked

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Destroy yourself
Destroy yourself
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The chains are tough to (they fasten it to our insides)
The chains are tough to break

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I was wounded, I had cuts on my arms. I think someone pissed on me, I'm not sure...
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Those are piss cool pants you're wearing, man.
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- No shit, bra, they're all I have, hey.
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We're glad you sing in Afrikaans.
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- I'm glad you guys are here.
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One can compare Francois at a show to an actor on stage. The first thing he needs to do is lose his body. If it is because he is standing there drunk or if he is just feeling the music - he does it completely.


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This man is a fucking maniac.
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Francois threw up and he's choking himself with the mic chord around his neck, and Wynand jumped and kicked, and the bass struck Francois against the head, blood spouting out. And all this girl in the front row does is this ... And Francois kicked the puke onto her and all she does is this ...

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Can you guys understand any Afrikaans?

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What a fucking wild language.

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A very typical person

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with typical words

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in a typical house

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cultivates typical dreams.

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A dosage of painkillers,

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at the end of the day

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it's probably
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the only thing that makes you happy.

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And over and over

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a monologue in stereo

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on a nice day

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like today

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Title: 1st Interview: sub-urban magazine
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that we are white Afrikaans guys. We live on the southern tip of Africa.
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Do you feel that kind of responsibility? That you're speaking on behalf of a generation?
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We completely avoid that responsibility. We definitely didn't plan to speak on behalf of a generation. We just wanted to make sense of things for ourselves.
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I don't think that we can take responsibility, because we are just a reflection or a representation of what has already happened. It's not our fault that it happens. We are a product of society. Not the other way around.
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. I'm Gerhard Myburgh, and I'm Afrikaans. That's where my life started and that's what shaped me. I think Afrikaans, I dream Afrikaans and when I swear, I swear in Afrikaans. That's for fucking sure.

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Things were different. And we were that age ... we were part of that change, or whatever. It wasn't like they were wrong and we were right or anything. We just found ourselves in a place
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Young Afrikaners like us we don't know what it means to South Africans anymore. We're like "Fuck that, we're going to England" But Fokofpolisiekar gives us this vibe like "No, stay here, the Afrikaners are still going on, we're going to stay here for a long time, and no one can do fuck-all about it."
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That was always the thing, English people mocked us, because we speak English like this, you know, hard r's and whatever. Now we realise how crappy English speakers' Afrikaans is!


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We didn't have anywhere to stay...
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Oh my Goddamned!

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The braindead smiles of the audience
are getting too much for me

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The pain of arrogance tortures the marrow out of my bones

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Those who are ignorant, rejoice

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Give me your soul,
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or I'll have to steal it

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I guess I'm just bored
I guess I'm just bored

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What must I do to feel alive again?

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I am the hate that forces you to assault yourself

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I am the pain that hides in all you want to hide

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I am the agony in your insanity,
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the joy that you consume

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I am the one who wants to save you to torture you

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What is wrong with me?

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Can I get a professional diagnosis?

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Competing




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do I still have a soul,

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is he busy screaming?

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I though we were all...

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Trying to move forward

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My head bangs...

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Against the car windows

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And my eyes open,

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My cigarette lit

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Did you hear that?
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Hunter is a very, very skilled lyric writer. He is really, really good.
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Think internationally

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Think globally Act locally


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A sheep cries wolf

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and all the herd believes him

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Life closes the front door

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leaves the sliding door open on the balcony

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for you to jump down

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for you to jump out

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Praise everything

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Praise Him

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Lord, help us.

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- Is that a new song? That's just the start. -It's beautiful.
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Title: Rebecca Kahn: Journalist
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It's just how someone feels. I mean, what can you really do, about how you feel, if you feel that you need to express yourself?

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And in the shadows South Africa burns
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Title: Liny Kruger: Publicist for rhythm records
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What is the Nelspruit story?
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Come Hunter, you tell it. Hunter is the fag who ran away. The gentleman.
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Ja, shit. Jaco was crawling around on the tables in O'Hagans, and I'm sure he threw ice on someone.
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Then they got pissed off, but then they thought it was Francois and Wynand, and then they were pulling them around by the hair.


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And then this older man kicked him in the balls.
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Nelspruit, all ye who are heavy and burdened, come to Nelspruit ...
This is the Prince of Nelspruit
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(Faggot!" and the punches fly)
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Snake! Snake! What the fuck are you doing? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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My dad always says if you're stupid, you have to suffer.
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:I've always wanted to do that."
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Ja, there's shit coming our way.'

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(It's an assault on God)
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(Christians to protest on Polisiekar today)
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Wynand wrote 'Fuck God' on a kid's wallet.
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Title: Angola Badprop: journalist

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(Polisiekar be gone, says Church)
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When we started working at Beeld lots of people phoned in, especially older woman, asking "What kind of person writes "Fuck God on a kids wallet?"
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There was constant writing in Beeld and hate speech in the media that was heartbreaking to me. Because I know for certain if Jesus was on earth today he would be the first guy to buy Wynand a beer and say "Hey dude, let's chat. What's going on?" without sending an e-mail saying I'm going to kill you or whatever. That was the absolutely heartbreaking thing. There was absolutely no love in that.
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Inside the wilderness grows

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I'm just a tourist...

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In my motherland

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A wounded animal in a cage,

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On antibiotics

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Title: Shane Durrant: desmond and the tutus
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We're not actually that apathetic or hard or punk or...
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black sheep everybody thinks we are. I think we did it to... eventually make a positive change
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That's why parents give their kids a hiding. To see the light... one sometimes needs a rude awakening.
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Ships of loneliness sink
Drown the days of the week
The warm that summer brings
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Too fast
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Too much

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I'll break all my promises

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if you just give me a chance

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Who will make love for me?

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why do I feel If the summer is so sweet,

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so fucked?

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I shine holy/I am a hypocrite]

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Under the streetlight

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Tell me when the revolution is over

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Dearly beloved,

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we know
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a dog will always

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return to its vomit
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Don't be so surprised

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Just throw some fat on the fire

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Quarrelsome and...

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melancholy
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I shine

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I shine holy /I am a hypocrite]

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Under the streetlight

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Under the moonlight

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Tell me when the revolution is over

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I'm still bored
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and my legs hurt

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I stand in front of your door
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My head knocking

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Immeasurable riches...
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Of grace

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I am...

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Angry/in hell

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Shivering, trembling, the boer traitor

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The world will hate you, my son

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If you speak the truth
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they will try to kill you.

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I shine

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I shine holy I am a hypocrite

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Under the streetlight

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Under the moonlight

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Tell me when the revolution is over

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I'm still bored

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And my legs hurt

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I stand in front of your door

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My head knocking

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This is us.
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Title: Jaco Snakehead Venter fully recovered from his accident and rejoined the band.