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Tear 'em Down
02:02
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Raise the flag and fire the cannon
Process down the closed off streets
Sing songs of a super strong nation
Sounds more like a crying shame
Colonisers on pedestals
On streets named after slavers
Don’t tell me this is a museum
Looks more like a hall of fame
Down down down
Tear em down
Tear em all down
Heave ho and throw em in the sea
Down down down
Tear em down
Tear em all down
Heave ho and throw em in the sea
Down down down
Tear em down
Tear em all down
Heave ho and throw em in the sea
Held doors in endless corridors
Followed up with a wandering hand
For the sake of your livelihood
Better not be kissed and tell
Non silence breaks the violence
Childhood heroes fall like cards
Favourite author’s got a hit out on me
And all of my friends as well so
Down down down
Tear em down
Tear em all down
Heave ho and throw em in the sea
Singing
Down down down
Tear em down
Tear em all down
Heave ho and throw em in the sea
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Monuments
02:39
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Thorn
01:41
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Nadders in the long grass
Told me to beware
Of traitors among us
And strangers over there
Mine’s a quart sire
The bread a little moldy
Man of the men folk
Crying out with ye olde and in with
Thorn!
Our signs it will adorn
Thorn!
The never-was reborn
My passport’s blue
How about you?
Nothing to go and nowhere to do
My passport’s blue
How about you?
You can’t stay here but you can’t go through
Chopping up my coinage
To put ‘em in their places
Pre-decimate our noses
To spite our faces, all for the love of
Thorn!
Beloved dust reborn
Thorn!
The sheep so keenly shorn
Thorn!
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Ruins
03:30
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Tear Me Down
02:33
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My leg ‘pon the workbench
My hands work fleetly
My spleen ont’ slab
Humming sweetly
Lab door’s locked
None disturb me
Angels outside
Cannot curb me
Tear me down
To build me up again
I should pray
For stranger weather
Weigh my art
Against a feather
Lab door’s jammed
None can free me
Birds outside
Barely see me
Tear me down
To build me up again
Tear me down
To build me up again
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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK
I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own
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