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Sent to War
04:25
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We used to stand and bow our heads, every other Saturday afternoon,
While they read the names of the dead
Each one of them taken to soon.
I used to look across the crowd, but never caught anybody’s eye
Was it a father a son, or a friend
Or just some stranger that you sat beside?
Chorus
And your daughters and your sons
They will never be the ones, the one’s you send to war
The people that you love, the one for who you care
You will never send to war.
The family you keep safe, while sending others to their fate
You will never send to war.
Mark the warm words and the lies, you use to justify
The ones you sent to war.
They had lives, they had dreams, they had families
They had loves they lost along the way.
They had hope, and ambition and promise
All of it stripped away
Chorus x 2
They are broken and alone, never coming home,
The one’s you sent to war.
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Thread
05:27
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How did it feel when you woke up that morning,
Switiched on the news, and hope seemed so far away?
How did it feel when you picked up the paper,
Read all of their lies, but we fell for them anyway?
When did we start to treat our neighbours like strangers,
Because of where they were born, or who hears their prayer?
Are we so blind to the inherent dangers,
of fearing the other, and failing to care?
Chorus:
There's a thread though history, spun by people like you and me
Bound together by more than ties
Men and women, and young and old
We learned our history and so we know
What's our birthright, whos on our side
Gay and straight and black and white
North and south, what's wrong from right,
It's why we stand together what gives us pride
There's a thread
Aren't you fed up with the impotent anger,
The glorious defeats, the fights we don't win?
Isn't it time we remembered the lessons
Of when we were strong, when we rose again?
Chorus
From Peterloo to Yorkshire mines
The Mersey's banks to the Upper Clyde
It's why we stand together what gives us pride
There's a thread, an unbroken thread
There's a thread though history, spun by people like you and me
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You tell me
04:24
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Growing up, I never thought I'd find
I'd be content to walk by on the other side
A grown man, I never thought I'd see
So little thought, such complacency
And my little bubble, my own retreat
Made it easy to forget that I believed in a world,
Where none of us are ever truly free
Without a job, home, security
You tell me, you tell me, is this the way that you want the world to be?
So many stories and so many lies
We tell ourselves just to help the days pass by
They build their walls and and they tell their truthes
Smoke and mirrors, its a trick played on me and you
Something stirring in the guts below
In the street and in work, wherever people know
Something stirring because we'll always need
A job, a home and security
You tell me, you tell me, is this the way that you want the world to be?
Lie after lie
People searching for the truth
You just can't stand by
Raise your head and shape the future
You tell me, you tell me, is this the way that you want the world to be?
You tell me, you tell me, is this the best that you think the the world can be?
You tell me
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Paul Nowak Liverpool, UK
Singer-songwriter from Birkenhead, Merseyside. If you don’t know Birkenhead, it’s a bit like Brooklyn to Liverpool’s
Manhattan. If you do know Birkenhead, you’ll know it’s not...
Cowboy Songs is the first thing I’ve recorded in a studio since my late teens and throughout 2020 I’ll be doing the odd-gig to promote it when the day-job allows.
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