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City Burning

Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!

Not one for living underground ---
But it’s easy to do if you have to
Hiding from people all over this city ---
Yes --- the people from the past are ghosts

Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!

The city is burning in a brand new wave
The night is heaving, soft rain in the air
The birds are wild and keep a watch ---
Don’t attempt some great escape.
An old man sits at the foot of the tree
Selling apples for the Company
To all God's pretty children
As they travel through the streets.

We should have climbed the lazer stairs
And seen the dying people there,
Ignored the signs that read ‘Beware!’
And looked upon Lady Charity bare ---
O, a carnival of carnivores
Picking over her broken corpse ---
Stoned to death by apples grown
But corporate apple seeds are sown
In the light of modern youth
With it’s apathy and shattered roots ---
The zealots bark and barge
Their furrow raking through.

Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!

The city has changed while we were underground ---
But we will reclaim our town!
Exciting times now the city’s alive ---
In the heat of the night
Excavating dreams that walked out of my life ---
Yes, the city’s on fire!
And now we are burning down everything we know ---
“To the city we must go!”.

Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!
Oh no no! --- The city’s on fire!

Scythes are out every weekend
Reaping the souls of young women and men,
Because we are the dark children ---
We grew up in the Eighties, when
A carnival of carnivores
Picked the locks to our front doors!
Come and see my dark city
Where the kids are alive and girls are pretty ---
Oh I want to show you round
Tthe secret places of this town.
The battle for our children has only just begun!

Your head is burning down like a house in arson’s bloom ---
Which of your precious memories will you fight the flames to rescue?
Will you go back inside for me?
We should all take the heat for the ones we love ---
Remember me.

credits

from Ten Tales Of Looming Darkness (2014 Remaster), released March 1, 2015
Rob Silverlode – Vocal + Acoustic
Scott Silverlode – Vocal + Bass
Gaz Silverlode – Vocal + Guitar
Dave Silverlode – Drums + Percussion

Music by Silverlode (Crosby, Doran, Rowley, Sutcliffe)
Lyrics by Rowley

Recorded at Grain Division Studio, Leeds

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Silverlode Leeds, UK

Silverlode is a folksome indie rock band from Leeds.

A folk band in the broadest sense of the word; dogs of pop; self-taught musical ruffians who play to their own traditions. Reinventors of self and prone to playing their songs in a myriad of ways, join Silverlode on their mythological journey through history, future, fantasy and good times via their ever-evolving music.

DIY since 2001.
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