Up Against It
Todd Rundgren

Can you hear it?
Ear against the ground and you'll hear it
I can tell a change when I hear it

We are tigers
Kings of jungles
Trapped in cages
We forget we once were free!

And the average swain
Would be contented in his chains
Were it not for complainers like me

Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the rules
Bring the experts
Up against them
Up against the fools
Bring on city hall
I'm against them all

Lamp of freedom

No, you can't change
Human nature
Wheels of power
Keep revolving endlessly
With a fanatical faction
A charismatic attraction
There's a piece of that action for me

Call the press
I'm up against it
Up against the flacks
Bring the shrink
I'm up against it
Up against the quacks
Revenuers
Up against it
Up against the tax
Name some names
And I'm up against them
Bullies, big and small
I'm against them all

All we need is some vitality
Like an [...] individuality
But I guess they [...]
[...] make it all alone

Bring the girls
I'm up against them
I'm up against their lips
Bring the boys
I'm up against them
Up against their hips
Bring the priest
I'm up against him
Up against that cross
Bring the mob
I'm up against it
Up against the boss
Bring the cops
I'm up against it
Up against the jaw
Throw the book
I'm up against it
Up against the law

Politicians, all - I'm against them
Fascist lackies all against the wall

Fist of freedom
Guns of freedom

Bring the lackies
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the bishop
Up against it
Up against the wall
Bring the chairman
Up against it
Up against the wall
Put the general
Up against it
Up against the wall!


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  Dogfight Giggle   Don't Hurt Yourself   don't Tie My Hands   Don't You Ever Learn?   Dreams Of Ordinary Men   Drive   dust In The Wind   Eastern Intrigue   Eastern Intrigue\/Initiation   Emperor Of The Highway   Entropy   Everybody's Going To Heaven / King Kong Reggae   Everybody's Going to Heaven \/ King Kong Reggae   Fade Away   Fair Warning   Feel It   Feel It (Live)   Feel It (Tubes Version)   Feel Too Good   Feet Don't Fail Me Now   fidelity   Flesh   For A Song   Free, Male And 21   Free, Male, And Twenty-One   Freedom Fighter   From Hunger   Gaya's Eyes   Golden Goose   Good Vibrations   Hammer In Your Heart   happenings Ten Years Time Ago   Hawking   Healer   Healing Part I   Healing Part Ii   Healing Part Iii   Heaven's Falling   Heavy Metal Kids   hello It's Me   Hello Its Me   Hello, It's Me   Hideaway   Hit Me Like A Train   Hodja   Holyland   Honest Work   hope I'm Around   Hope I'm Around (On Original Runt)   Hungry For Love   Hurting For You   I Don't Want To Tie You Down   I Hate My Frickin I.S.P   I Hate My Frickin Isp   I Love My Life   I Saw The Light   I Think You Know   I Want You   i Went To The Mirror   i'm In The Clique   I'm So Proud   If 6 Was 9   If I Have To Be Alone   If Six Was Nine   Imagination   In The End   Influenza   Initiation   International Feel   Is It My Name?   It Takes Two To Tango   it Takes Two To Tango (this Is For The Girls)   It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference   Izzat Love?   Jerk   Jesse   Jesse (Live)   Johnee Jingo   Johnee Jingo (Live)   Just Another Onionhead   Just One Victory   Kindness   Kindness (Live)   L-5   La La Means I Love You   Last of the New Wave Riders   Le Feel Internacionale   Life Goes On   little Red Lights   Lockjaw   long Flowing Robe   Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song   Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song   Lost Horizon   Love In Action   Love In Disguise   Love In Disguise (Up Against It Version)   Love Is The Answer   Love Of The Common Man   Love of the Common Man [Recorded Live at the Rivie...   Love Science   Love Science (Live)   Love's A Mystery   Love's A Mystery (I Don't Understand)   Lucky Guy   Lysistrata   marlene   Marvin Gaye Trilogy   Mated   Maybe I'm Better Off   Mercy Mercy   Midnight Sun   Mighty Love   Miracle In The Bazaar   Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine   Never Never Land   Never Neverland   No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator   Number 1 Lowest Common Denominator   once Burned   One Good Reason   One More Day   One More Day (No Word)   One World   One World (Acoustic Encore) [Live]   Only Human   Onomatopoeia   ooh Baby Baby   Open My Eyes   Out Of Control   Overture - My Roots   Overture -- My Roots: Money (That's What I Want)\/...   Parallel Lines   Parole   Piece By Piece   Ping Me   piss Aaron   Pretending To Care   Princess of the Universe   Public Servant   Public Servant (Live)   Pulse   rain   Real Man   remember Me   Rock And Roll Pussy   Rock Love   Rock Love (Live)   saving Grace   Say No More   Say No More (On Original Runt)   second Wind   Secret Society   Shine   slut   some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me   Something To Fall Back On   Something to Fall Back On [Recorded Live at Rivier...   Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel   song Of The Viking   Sons of 1984   Soothe   strawberry Fields Forever   Sweet   sweeter Memories   Temporary Sanity   The Ballad   the Ballad (denny And Jean)   The Death Of Rock And Roll   The Finale   The Ikon   The Last Ride   the Last Thing You Said   The Night The Carousel Burned Down   The Night The Carousel Burnt Down   the Range War   The Seven Rays   The Smell Of Money   The Smell Of Money (Live)   The Spark Of Life   The Surf Talks   The Verb 'to Love'   The Waiting Game   The Want Of A Nail   The Want of a Nail [Recorded Live at Riviera Theat...   The Wheel   The Wondering   There Goes Your Baybay   Time Heals   Time Stood Still 1.0   Tin Soldier   Tiny Demons   Tiny Devils   Too Far Gone   torch Song   Trapped   Tv Is King   Two Little Hitlers   Unloved Children   Useless Begging   Utopia Theme   wailing Wall   We Gotta Get You A Woman   We Understand Each Other   When I Pray   When The Shit Hits The Fan - Sunset Blvd.   Where Does The Time Go?   Who's Sorry Now   Who's Sorry Now (Live)   who's That Man   Who's That Man?   Wolfman Jack   Word Made Flesh   World Wide Ephiphany   Yer Fast   Yer Fast (And I Like It)   You Cried Wolf   You Don't Have To Camp Around   you Left Me Sore   You Make Me Crazy   You Need Your Head   Zen Archer

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