[Verse 1]
Plain white walls all around
There's no color to be found
They took my heart, stole my dreams
Told me I am a machine
I'm breaking out
I'm tired of this
How much more can we take, how much more can we take
To live our lives, in black and white
I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

[Build]
I'ma die fightin' for the real world

Plain white walls, all around
There's no color to be found
They took my heart stole my dreams
Told me I am a machine
I'm breaking out
I'm tired of this
How much more can we take, how much more can we take
To live our lives, in black and white
I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

[Drop]

I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

Plain white walls all around
There's no color to be found
They took my heart, stole my dreams
Told me I am a machine
I'm breaking out
I'm tired of this
How much more can we take, how much more can we take
To live our lives, in black and white
I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

[Build]
One, two
One two three four

Plain white walls all around
There's no color to be found
They took my heart, stole my dreams
Told me I am a machine
I'm breaking out
I'm tired of this
How much more can we take, how much more can we take
To live our lives, in black and white
I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

One, two
One two three four

I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

I'ma I'ma die fightin' for the real world

The Travellers Remixes

Barely Alive feat. Diamond Eyes - Welcome To The Real World (The Travellers Remix)

אנחנו נהייה הבלתי מפלגתיים ומנהיגנו הוא הוואראזדין

groups of travellers alperto mix

अबके मौसम पाखी (पाखी) खर चुगने आएंगे, 
खिड़की पर चुटकी भर धूप धरो 
(धूप धरो)

उमस-उबासी की बैठी है काँठ-पर्त 
भीत पर, किवाड़ों में अटके है यहाँ-वहाँ 
बुसियाए हवागुच्छ संधियों-दरारों में 
किरनों के तिनके हर कोने-आँतर फेरो
अँधियारे घर-आँगन भोर करो 
(भोर करो)

अबके मौसम पाखी (पाखी) खर चुगने आएंगे, 
खिड़की पर चुटकी भर धूप धरो 

पाखी हर पाँख-पोर सुर की ललछाँह डोर...
पीड़ा की गाँस लिए देहरी-दुवारे तक 
छाजन भर की उड़ान आँगन भर आस लिए 
पाँख की गुदेली से द्वार थपथपाएँगे 
आँगन-घर खोलो आकाश करो
(आकाश करो) 

पाखी… (पाखी)
पाखी… (पाखी)

अबके मौसम पाखी (पाखी) खर चुगने आएंगे, 
खिड़की पर चुटकी भर धूप धरो
(धूप धरो)
(धूप धरो) 

(पाखी आएंगे)
(पाँख की गुदेली से)
(द्वार थपथपाएँगे)

पाखी...
पाखी… (पाखी)

Rough Translation in English:

In this season, the birds will come to pick up grains,
Place a pinch of sunlight on the window sill

The weariness of humidity sits heavy on the walls,
On the door, in the cracks: here and there
Whispers of wind-bunches - in the joints and crevices
Spread the slivers of sunlight in every corner and space
Light up the dark house and courtyard, bring in the dawn

Birds, of every feather and pore, with a longing for the thread of melody
Carrying the morsel of pain, they reach the doorsteps
With a flight spanning the roof, with hope filling the courtyard
With the softness of their wings, they will tap at the door
Open the courtyard and home, Open it up to the sky

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This track uses Generative AI Vocals and Instruments

Paakhi


I know that road, I know it well,
Their well-worn ways — the heart can tell. 
Each ditch and those small fields they border
Last of an ancient, dying order.

At Barnathasona where they camp,
Those winter fields that hugged the damp, 
An ancient place na Déisi tramped; 
That hard road where god’s people camped.

Chorus
Though long the roads and chill the air,
They made the rounds to each horse fair,
With tin they fashioned vessels, round;
The famished grass their asses found.
Their song, their music, stirred each heart,
Although they stood among, apart;
They gave new music to each place,
Who soon forgot their song, their race.

And that old road it still abides,
Their voices in ghost winds still hide,
By that small ditch, their song still present —
Now a home to fox and pheasant.

Chorus
Though long the roads and chill the air,
They made the rounds to each horse fair,
With tin they fashioned vessels round;
The famished grass their asses found.
Their song, their music, stirred each heart,
Although they stood among, apart;
They gave new music to each place,
Who soon forgot their song, their race.

— Frank Callery.

Tinkers at Barr na Trasna

The third annual Soccer Integration Blitz takes place at SETU Carlow sports grounds and ahead of that Deborah Foley of the Carlow Sports Partnership outlined to KCLR News' Martin Quilty the event's origins and the importance of holding it each year ... 

KCLR News:

In this episode Russell is joined by Hannah Kitchen Kirby and Clare MacGillivray to discuss human rights and to provide a helpful insight into a right-based approach in practice. Between them they provide the lead pair of articles in IACD's March 2025 edition of Practice Insights which is dedicated to the theme of rights: 

https://www.iacdglobal.org/practice_insights

Hannah was until very recently working in Leith in Cables Wynd House, better known as the 'Banana Flats'. She explains how a rights-based approach was at the heart of efforts to secure investment into the housing. Edinburgh City Council recently announced Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Links View House will receive £69 million of investment, including the provision of lifts which had originally been omitted from plans but thanks to campaigning are now included (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cableswynd-linksview).

Clare MacGillivray from the organisation Making Rights Real, provides an overview of her work with Gypsy Travellers at Double Dykes near Perth.

You can follow Clare and Hannah:

https://makingrightsreal.org.uk/
linkedin.com/company/making-rights-real
uk.linkedin.com/in/clare-macgillivray-64382a95
bsky.app/profile/makingrightsreal.bsky.social

https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/
bsky.app/profile/bethanychristiantrust.com
facebook.com/BethanyChristianTrust1
instagram.com/bethanychristiantrust
linkedin.com/company/bethany-christian-trust

Photo credit: Hannah Kitchen Kirby. It features Cables Wynd House residents at the City Chambers in Edinburgh ahead of giving a deputation to the full council calling for new lifts. 
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Ep. 47 - Insights from Scotland about Making Rights Real

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