Citizen Fish are a ska-punk band that have been together since the late 1980s. Based around Bath, England, the original members were Dick Lucas (vocals/words), Jasper (bass), Trotsky (drums), and Larry (guitar). Following their first album, Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Larry left the band and was replaced by Phil, who, along with Dick and Trotsky, had previously been a member of the seminal British punk band, the Subhumans. Jasper and Dick had previously played together in Culture Shock. The band is known for their lyrics, which often make strong social and political statements, dealing with themes such as anti-consumerism, vegetarianism, questioning of the status quo, and the general encouragement of people to get along with one another.
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Citizen Fish

We went up to the buliding site/saw the building and the concrete piles/and
watched them all working/building muscles and no-one smiled/we stood there and
watched them/staring back in complete contempt/I'm building a building/signed
his name in the wet cement/we walked throught the cemetary/social tombstons in
black and grey/someone had a bunch of flowers/talking sentiments felt okay/we
stood in the shadows/feeling it was that time of day/when everything gloomy/
hits the light as it fades away/we came to conclusions/knew that life was a
paradox/so many illusions/kept alive till the old ones dropped/demolishing
lifestyles/building up all the tower blocks/life is so sacred/why spend it all
in a man-made box?/we stared at the empty shells/passed a smile and then cried
alot/while all this was passing by/no one stopped to see whta they've got/they
took it for granted/used the space for a parking lot/we'll kick off the real
world/allocating the beauty spots/industrial death camps/man made something
and then forgot/knew what it should look like/trod on nature and said "why
not?"/but you cannot replace it/just take a photo and watch it rot/and bury
the feeling/til no-one knows what it really meant/got caught in a landslide/
and left a name in the wet cement