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Originally released on the 'Three' EP - 20th March 2020

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It don't matter how they win, just as long as they win it.
It's not the lie you believe, it's what you hear when they spin it.
We'd be out of this hole if you'd thought for just a minute,
Through your blue clown's shoe with a bullet hole in it.

It's a paradox of Socrates,
That "No-one does wrong knowingly".
Your pencilled cross gave up the keys,
To sell me out, and those like me.
To bring in an autocracy,
And infect our lives with a blue disease.
Now we're fighting through days like these,
With broken hands and bandaged knees.

Poverty, and homeless rates, and division of the classes.
Systematic underfunding, and still you sharp suits pay no taxes.
Still, you've chosen where you dance, it just depends how green your grass is,
And you'll tango through the streets whilst you burn down your own houses.
Twisting knives through shattered lives, their rhetoric creates this.
Sliding doors give open floors to institutional racists.
Spit the poison to the wind, my friend I'm afraid it's...
...Your vote that gave the power to the spiteful and the hated.

Disparity brings charity for the weakened and diminished.
Hope has died, but still supplies the foodbank in your village.
Don't close your ears or hide your eyes, my lesson isn't finished...
...Does morbid lust for sorrow make you proud that you are British?!

It's a paradox of Socrates,
That "No-one does wrong knowingly".
Your pencilled cross gave up the keys,
To sell me out, and those like me.
To bring in an autocracy,
And infect our lives with a blue disease.
Now we're fighting through days like these.

'We're all in this together."

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from Can't Sing The Blues Like Johnson (EPs, Singles & Demos 2018​-​2020), released March 21, 2021
Music by B. Leese, J. Leese, R. Gwynne
Lyrics by R. Gwynne, B. Leese

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Wolves In Alcatraz England, UK

Wolves In Alcatraz emerged from the gritty Stoke-on-Trent underground in late 2017, born of a shared love for raw, unapologetic music.
Fronted by raw, aggressive guitarist/vocalist Ben Leese, anchored by the thunderous bass grooves of Dave Owen, and driven by the relentless, pounding drums of Luke Morgan, Wolves In Alcatraz are a force to be reckoned with. ... more

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