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A satellite stands motionless at a point above the Earth,
where it's scything through the truth,
and under the cover of a thousand stupid game shows,
events are on the move.
There's a build-up of washing up,
lying in the sink, there's a build-up of ignorance, when people just don't think,
there's a one sided bedtime story on the evening news tonight.

Chorus: And the ebb and flow of history is lapping 'round their rooms
as the blinds come rattling down.
And they won’t notice,
that something is going on round here,
they won’t know, oh no they won’t notice,
they won’t notice that,
something is going on 'round here, oh no they won’t notice,
that something is going on 'round here,
they won’t know. Oh not they won’t notice, they won’t notice, that, something is going on ‘round here, yeah it’s going on ‘round here.

Well I open the daily tabloid and it spits into my face,
yeah they treat you with contempt,
It's the modern day equivalent, of a public flogging
and it's all at our expense.
It's overcast in London, a depression over France,
there's a storm over Gibraltar, as things start hotting up,
the climate's slowly changing
but the outlook looks really bad.

Chorus.

The radio chatters childishly to a nation on its back, 
as it tries to pay the rent.
It's aural wallpaper covering up the cracks,
of any unified dissent. 
Everyone has an opinion, everybody thinks they're right, 
but few know the realities behind this bitter fight.
How many nights in shining Armagh
will it take to win this war?

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from Disgraceland, released March 20, 2017
Written by Steve Drewett
Steve Drewett: Guitar/lead vocals
Mac: Bass guitar/trombone/backing vocals
Sarah Ross: Vocals
Neil Tye: Percussion
Greg Caburn: Sax/
Adam Amore: Sax
Isaac Prevost: Drums

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Steve Drewett Harlow, UK

Steve Drewett is the singer songwriter and guitarist of the punk band Newtown Neurotics. The Indestructible Beat is Steve's other band which he formed in the Nineties when the Newtown Neurotics split for a while. Here he decided to mix punk with African rhythms. ... more

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