Enter Shikari - Take My Country Back Lyrics

Dude..one day... years from now people will look back at this band like damn!....these guys really knew who they were and where they stood in the universe! Great musicians, lyrics that the world needed/needs to keep us grounded as a species and they are such good dudes! Specially that Rob Rolfe.
Never change my dudes! Your music means so much!

Such a trick...Three days ago, while I was going to the rally against unfair elections in Moscow, it was the first time I heard this song. Gave me a plenty of enthusiasm. The revolution starts in minds

We need more politically motivated music like this like the early 2000s during the bush era

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I get goosebumps from that intro

the same shit have happened in Ukraine last week - people voted for comedian as president

At this time in Britain this song is literally what is going on with brexit. We’ve have really gone and fucked it this time.

So is it just a coincidence that your new album sounds like a parody of an actual band, and that you've started singing more pro-SJW nonsense? Or did the message make you worse? Or did you think the message would make people like this garbage?

Pro-SJW nonsense? Do you mean being a decent person? And have you ever listened to an Enter Shikari album? If them being politically vocal and left leaning is news to you, I'm guessing you were never really a fan and just butthurt a song called Take My Country Back wasn't a remix of Farage and Johnson spewing bullshit scapegoating slogans into your echo chamber. Get in the fucking bin, pal.

They've been very left leaning since the start of the band. Mothership from their first album is about saving the earth from pollution, Fanfare For The Conscious Man from the second album was an anti-war song. Arguing With Thermometers from the third is about companies hiding the fact that they're destroying the planet, The One True Colour from the fourth is about how religion causes us to hate each other, and now we have this. The only thing that's changed is the sound, which has been different every release.

@UltraGayInHD Stop talking sense, pal. You won't get anywhere.

Should be our fucking National Anthem...

Catchy but a bit too political/university student protester.. Hopefully they don't sit too much into this nook, didn't end well for Machine Head and Rob Flynn.

@Altaidox S/he can't elaborate because s/he is just trying to find fault and pretend to be a fan to "validate" his/her opinion after finding this song and being somewhat disgruntled the title misled him/her into thinking it'd confirm their views.

They've always been political.

V E N E Z U E L A 🇻🇪

I wanna take my country back. Don't wanna take my country "forward".

I'm amazed at how people think this is a pro brexit and right wing song, just listen the album... I mean it's pretty clear to me that this is about uniting everyone

Wait... people think that? How?

So I'm in confusion: are you taking it back with Qemists, or are you taking it forward? Shikari explain, EXPLAIN !!!!11 ;P

Brilliant.

Nigel Farage said this lok

les paroles sont d'une puissance!!!

All these people petrified of brexit, i'd be petrified if we didnt vote yes as its the last possible chance we have of stabilising. Financially it may be up for debate but you cant put a price on the safety and quality of the people of this country. 1000s upon 1000s of people have been raped, beaten and killed by the droves in the eu. But even if they where model citizens, there is no room left at the inn, overpopulation is already unavoidable. Again,you cant put a price on anything, when our grandkids ,or even us are fighting over scraps

Sometimes it's just better to lick trees :D (song is good)

"And now the house on the cliff is the wreckage on the rocks"

nothing can fix the Building´s floated Foundation...

SECRET SET AT DOWNLOAD PLEEEEEEASE!!!!!! KappaKappaKappa

Sorry guys, it's too late for the UK.

so Perfectly Beautiful

The old laws of England—they
Whose reverend heads with age are grey,
Children of a wiser day;
And whose solemn voice must be
Thine own echo—Liberty!

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!"

Shelley

To all the firestarters in the comment section, here's a game.
You're going to preach your own version of a perfect UK anyway, so here are the rules :
If you use "wake up", "open your eyes", "educate yourself" or any other half-arsed expression meant to belittle your interlocutor, you lose ! Debate well, friends.

Rules to live by :)

I heard they sang this song at Heart Town Rock Festival in Taichung, Taiwan.
Thanks for u guys coming, very impressive show!

Even though I do not agree with their political views, i still really enjoy this song because the message could go for both sides. I appreciate their freedom of speech and I hope for their continuation in music. I’ve followed them since Highschool and I will continue to follow

What? Please use full sentences man, i cant make up anything out of these halves, Comrade Phil.

@VirtualURL I was describing part of the song.

That much is obvious, but what your "not really" refers to is still extremely vague

@VirtualURL My not really was aimed at the claim that this song could be taken by both sides.

I mean, sure it's vague, but it's a reply to a comment so it's not exactly difficult to put two and two together and realise he's replying to the comment he's replying to. 😂


But yeah, no. Claiming this could be interpreted as both pro- or anti-Brexit is a tad dillusional. But it just goes to show how Brexiters view their movement to think a song like this could be describing them. Baffling, but also interesting I suppose.

It's not easy to express my love to you. Thank you for being a big part of my life. I don't want to be pretentious. Looking forward to see you very soon.

Blare this from the Houses of Parliament, play it from Buckingham Palace, shout it from Westminster Abby - the country needs to listen and bloody understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That there's no more Lemons ;o - Panic?

I actually really like the visuals. It reminds me of those projects you used to do in school where you make a projects by cutting out pictures out of magazines

I remember when their songs were good, well sorry, youre not a winner

Get up and start new world War? I'm Russian and I loved British culture. What its mean to British get up?

Rast Coul they are using it to say stand up and make a change or at least open your eyes

I haven't heard y'all in over a decade

Awesome!

Great work on the lyric video. Love the band, adore the song!

I like 💙

самое охуенное видео, которое я только видел в жизни *SARCASM*

Oh a lyric video

This fits so well with Spain right now...

To be honest yes. This country is being fucked up by these politicians that we have. Then the problem at Catalonia, the fucking crisis that we have had since 2007 and hundreds and hundreds of things, u know what's worse? That instead of trying to solve it, these politicians keep making it worse. Instead of trying to improve the working conditions, this stupid president that we have is more focused on trying to move the corpse of a dictator that leaded this country like 80 years ago to another cementery. A guy who died 40 years ago. Yeah he is caring more of a corpse than of an entire country.

Awesome as always with you guys !

And of course I only find out about it a few days after it comes out

Somehow, whenever Rou screms "now get up and feel the rising tide" I imagine him screaming it by the sea side where a gigantic wave is going to crush him..

ЕЕ, песня крутая, лирик крутое, но я ждал вас, пасаны.

Oh i thought it was a music video

It is the official video accompaning the song. What else do you expect?

We will be as ONE in solidarity.

We've really gone fucked it this time

I'm from Colombia and we are close to presidential elections and in the first moment a listen to this song i felt that it's very accurate to the situation my country's right now...i hope we really don't fucked up this time.

Camilo Rivera I wish you the best of luck out there. Colombia is in a rough place but it seems, slowly, to be getting better after so long. Fingers crossed for you

The old empires arent coming back, we need to get up and establish new order, waking up from that postmodernist nightmare.

Love been a conservative

2012: "Countries are just lines, drawn on the sand with the stick"
2017: this song
now if that's not being sell-out i don't know what is

Белькевич Павел it's about the unity of the people and the unity of the world. It aims people not to be divided by the governments and the media and to be more human to each other to fight against those authorities who want to keep us divided. It's kinda Solidarity song part II, concretely about things like Brexit, who divides the population of Britain.

Sell-out? If being anti-Brexit due to it being fuck all but a vanity project for people who can't accept the Empire has been quietly decomposing for the better part of a century and a song that calls out a damaging system of power using nationality to divide-and-conquer are contradictory and constitute being a "Sell-out" in your eyes, I can't help but think you've completely misunderstood either the songs or the Brexit situation.

Good pre war song

When will the English nationalists stop hijacking everything as "british" , an old derogatory term for Cornish and Welsh speakers.......history has incredible complexity and hypocrisy

Do you have any source to back that? if it's true that's interesting but being Cornish I've never heard that. Not saying you're wrong just would like some proof to confirm

I think it’s brilliant. The message is hope.

Was that a grenfell reference snuck in there. Jeez real music about real shit. Not as musicly good as old stuff but the message is well needed.

Great lyrics, beautiful (and necessary) message but just an average song.

This song makes me chuffed

Yay, the vid!

I love this song so much. I really love the chill part during the cliff's are eroding part.

I get chills whenever I hear this song

Watch on 1.5x for some epic chase music

you guys are still so good!

I love this song so much and Enter Shikari! 🔻hello shikari family ♥️

Can't wait to hear you guys in Serbia

оо клипак

I always thought you were saying blamethrower, thought I was mis-hearing it up until now

It's genius

true magic
love it a lot

Noxnar Wolfhard indeed. Words are magick. Spell(ing). ;) 93's

The logo coming together at the end makes this video 👏

Cor this song is great ain't it? :D

Fuck yeah lads

I'm fed up, fed up with all this *SOY TONIGHT!*

Why is the logo at the end the old one???

I don’t want to take my country back, I want to take my country forward! Say yes, to the European Union. Britain is part of it & always will be, we cherish & love our membership, we are European! United in diversity with our European sisters & brothers, alongside every citizen of planet Earth. Well done Shi-Ka-Ri, for giving a rousing rallying call to such. This is a tune & very much needed.

We really need to take European Union forward as well... :/

errrm what does the song have to do with European Union XD the European union is based on trade not dividing UK from Europe XD

This song has everything to do with the EU... The name is from the Brexit voters who said it was to "take their country back"

Guilherme Aguiar Well that’s just blatantly false. Each member state elects the members from their country, with the number of seats based on population. The U.K. has the joint 3rd highest number of seats in the European Parliament, so they absolutely are voted for by us

@expOsiris Were you joking? The vote was in 2016, but Brexit will happen (if it happens) this year. This country has voted to make our relationship to the EU the only thing on the government's agenda for the next decade or so.

Enter Psychotherapist.

It annoys me that people think this is a song for Brexit and not against it. Some comments are ridiculous on this video and the others

Brexit 2019, Trump 2020. <3

it is against Brexit - but look where we are, falling off the edge of a cliff

The band that’s smashed it every time!! 😁

Love the video guys, well done 💙

я даже знаю прекрасно какой следующий трек будет играть в альбоме)

Beeing honest, the song is really great, but the lyric video is quite meh... Not a very special one, in my opinion.

chirripitiflauticoid tbh a song like this can only really have a lyrically video because the message in the song is so strong. A different kind of video would’ve distracted from the message and I don’t think they wanted that.

MetalRocksMe \m/ I agree with you, was just saying I didn't like the graphical aspect of the video very much, but that doesn't mean that the idea of doing a lyric video for this song is not great, because it is. Look at Radiate video. Way better done, imo.

chirripitiflauticoid you probably think the radiate video was better because they’re in it.

MetalRocksMe \m/ not only, the graphical concept was also more interesting and "rich". This one's quite poor for me, sorry.

Godammit. I love the color scheme of everything this album produces.

Listening the part "Get up, get up and feel the rising tide" in Venice is quite funny lol

Oh god yes, Netherlands too man...good luck.

Welcome to Thailand

At last... Your best political song ever has it video clip! 💪🏼👌🏼🙌🏼
THANX.

#StopBrexit

Phew, i thought it's going to be a proper music video, i'm so relieved it's actually lyric video.

Because usually the 4th video is the last music video from an album, and i really want a visual interpretation for Undercover Agents in one.

It's my favorite song. And i hope this wasn't intended to be the last music video for the album.

PS: that being said, this video is pretty fascinating to watch.

what if the last video is a mix of shirin yoku and undercover agents ? i could die in peace

Very nice 😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚

we need new tracks

RusloDeGuzlo it’s on the way

you gotta love Enter Shikari! I am proud to be british!

it says Official Video, but it looks like a Lyric Video

its still their officially released video isnt it?

If it’s released by their channel then it’s was done by them. It’s official..

These statements don't contradict each other. Crazy, huh?

Where is the band? Why here only pictures?

Because if they only put pictures up they can't me misconstrued as racist white boys who hate the brown people destroying Britain.

Artistic freedom. Google it.

that was pretty cool

ENTER SHIKARI never disappoints ♡♡

Give up lads - the days of political points raised through music are gone .

Then what is this song about in your opinion? ^-^

I'm fairly certain that Enter Shikari aren't writing this song to please Cyrus, or anyone else. Here's to a band that writes about what they are passionate about.

Cyrus Prigg well, i think you didn't get the message of the song quite clear... It's about the unity of the people and the unity of the world. It aims people not to be divided by the governments and the media and to be more human to each other to fight against those authorities who want to keep us divided. It's kinda Solidarity song part II, concretely about things like Brexit, who divides the population of Britain.

A M A Z I N G ♡♡

This song is necessary in these troubled times!

We need green in these days.

Are you British?

Such an awesome song. 💜

I love this song! Your concert in Vienna was outstanding! Already waiting for the next one

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