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The Bent Moustache - The sound of sirens

from Listen To The Painters by G.W. Sok

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originally from the album Pastures New Seasons Turn (2011), Wormer Bros Records, WORM 018

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THE SOUND OF SIRENS *

Hello, hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to see you once again
because a noise that’s been made to stay
woke me up while I dozed away
and the television that has settled in my room
shows the doom
within the sound of sirens

The comfy couch and I, we watched alone
with my hunger slowly grown
for a minute I got off my ass
I took some crisps and I filled my glass
when my eyes were grabbed by the might
of the sight as such, and I was touched
by the sound of sirens

And on the naked screen there was
a speech that really made a buzz
the man in charge was quite shocking
blue in the face he kept knocking his head
up against the brick wall that’s been written on
his time has come
so it says in the sound of sirens

People, I hope you will understand
sirens are a helping hand
they woke me up, so that I can see
the struggle against the misery
but my distant support is stuck in another hell
with crisps and beer instead of sirens

No longer the people are afraid
to scorn the tyrant they all hate
then a sign flashed up on the square
understood it was everywhere
and the sign said:
“the worlds of the profiteers
are defended by the tyrant’s tanks
and the banks...
they will be silenced through the sound of sirens

* triggered by the Art of Simon, Paul, and Unkle Garf

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from Listen To The Painters, released May 27, 2016
words by Sok
music by Saggar

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G.W. Sok Amsterdam, Netherlands

G.W. Sok co-founded The Ex in 1979 and was their singer and lyricist for 30 years (www.theex.nl). Since 2009 he is involved in various other projects, such as Action Beat (UK), Zoikle (NL), Cannibales & Vahinés (F), King Champion Sounds (UK/NL), Coddiwomple (F), Oiseaux-Tempête (F), L&S (F). And there's some solo stuff as well. ... more

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