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PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Tenementals
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
David Archibald
Composer
Simon Whittle
Composer
Lirik
I stand here, eternal
bronze arms outstretched
As reaching for green leaves
red brick, red heavens
Showers from nimbus clouds
nourish generously
this marker to three score and more
of a volunteer army
who sleep in Spanish fields
and Scottish kirks
Their untarnished lives
you celebrate, yearly
as you shoulder your spotless banner
But what should you know?
And what should you care
of a past far more complex
as forward we stare?
Once more the jack boot
seeks to recruit
Pass they shall not
Pass they shall not
I stand here eternal
fists clenched to the sky
As reaching for futures
not pasts I'll deny
My soul scarred by memories
of hearts broken
and flowers crushed
in the darkened shadows
of Castelldefels
Where secret roses
cover secret graves
But the silence of these betrayals
eases the burden you must bear
For what should you know?
And what should you care
of a past far more complex
as forward we stare?
Once more the jack boot
Seeks to recruit
Pass they shall not
Pass they shall not
I stand here, eternal
in a world without sleep
Resolute against your magenta light
Spores
fertilise, blow your seeds
of red and of black
phantoms and spectres
There's no tears for time
as bundles of rods
are re-tied round a corporate axe
And those that were legion
must march once more
to carry an old world
in new hearts
For what should you know?
And what should you care
of a past far more complex
as forward we stare?
Once more the jack boot
Seeks to recruit
Pass they shall not
Pass they shall not
For what should you know?
And what should you care
for a past far more complex
as forward we stare?
Once more the jack boot
Seeks to recruit
Pass they shall not
Pass they shall not
Written by: David Archibald, Simon Whittle
