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Shadows

Shadows come to life in the night time round here

In the alleyways and office blocks the grey concrete conceals
Drug addicts freezing to death and shady business deals
There’s folk who make their millions manipulating stock
As the common man holds out his hands for pennies breaking rocks
The only trees for miles around are in cages in the park
You can take your kids to feed the ducks but don’t walk their after dark
You live your life in fear because they watch every move you make
From a curtain twitching neighbour to surveillance by the state

In the supermarket chain there are packages galore
They trick you so you think you’re paying less when you’re buying more
You’ve got the store club credit card it’s full of special deals
They know exactly what you want because they control the way you feel
The man who ran the local shop remembers the time
Personality and loyalty were valued over price
But there’s no time for such sentiments in the modern age
Community is dead and we’ve a city for a grave

Shadows come to life in the night time round here

In the high street shopping centre where the advertisements glare
They’ve got everything you’ll never need and cameras everywhere
Outside in the traffic jams you can hardly breathe
Or see the sky that is the limit for what you could achieve
There is no sense of community no sense of pride
You would love to spend time with your family but you need the overtime
The endless competition has your head spinning around
If you carry on like this you’ll wind up six feet under ground

In the high rise tower blocks graffiti on the wall
Spells out ‘never have I been so high yet felt so very small’
Mum’s down at the bingo and Dad’s out on the piss
Blocking out the sad reality of living life like this
They would rather have us live in concrete caskets in the sky
Always wanting more than those next door and never asking why
We are forced to keep the cogs of industry well oiled and clean
And to never be a spanner in the works of the machine

Consume, obey and die
Worship the barcode in the sky

It’s been days since I’ve seen sunlight surely something must be done
I’d advocate armed struggle but I’m terrified of guns
Because life in the big city where you have to watch your
Makes us so afraid and paranoid for fear of an attack
The kids all carry switchblades and the cops have taser guns
Terrorising neighbourhoods some for employment some for fun
This is a plea for peace through revolutionary sound
The city lights will shine their brightest on the day we burn them down

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from Tonight's The Night​/​Shadows, released April 22, 2015

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Formerly Brighton's longest running and laziest anarchoprogdubskapunkfuckyou band. Now residing all over the shop in the good, clean and honest south of England. Keeping it vaguely real since 2009.

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