New Frank Turner

[Robson]

Seeing as his lyrics have been favourites for sig quotes in the past, I thought I'd put the lyrics for "Sons of Liberty" for his new record that just* landed on my doorstep.

"Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set without encountering agents of his state or government. But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land, brought on by the hollow men, who did not understand that for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died to keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide, and that if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state, we enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape.

Wat Tyler led the people in 1381 to meet the king at Smithfield and issue this demand: that Winchester's should be the only law across the land, the law of old King Alfred's time, of free and honest men. Because the people then understood what we have since forgot: that governments will only work for their own benefit. And I'd rather stand up naked against the elements alone than give the hollow men the right to enter my home. When they raise their hands our lives to possess, to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist.

So if ever a man should ask you for your business, or your name, tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same. Because a man who'd trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep doesn't deserve the both of them, and neither shall he keep"

*no not at midnight but today, humph

[friendlywithteeth]

This one is taking me a little longer to warm to than the last... could be that I've not had a proper chance to have a listen though..

[Robson]

I found the last one started to grate after a while. But I bought it while it came on HMV's stereo - if I'd heard this one on I wouldn't have done the same.