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Taking Us Back (radio edit)

by Benefits

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lyrics

“We’re alright mate, it’s not us, it’s them”
As he repeats himself again and again
And he throws over a nod and a wink
Has another BLEEP weak fighting drink
Like a rose tinted gammon dream
And its brought up again
“We’ll never forgive, we’ll never forget”
You were never there, just accept it
It’s a bigotry claim, all hidden and lame
Through shabby endless lines and lines and lines
Of empty thick necked clubber men
Kicking off like god knows when
As aggression is in fashion again
And they’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back back back back back

This ruddy faced recession
A xenophobic monster crunch
Orange lit side street, blood on concrete
Illuminated polyester strutters
And they’re BLEEPing in the gutters
We’re all BLEEPing in the gutters
As this will be forever England
Forever rotting, forever BLEEP
And they’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back back back back back

A statue of a dead white man
standing in every square
Looking down, with victorian frown
As a reminder of a bygone sway
A non existent memorial day
And it’s covered in pigeon BLEEP
Plastered head to foot
BLEEPed up against on the weekend circuit
And it’s falling apart
It’s weathered away
And no one cares who they are
No one remembers their names
A monument to an invented age
Another monument to an invented age
And they’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back.
They’re taking us back back back back back

credits

released October 20, 2019
"Taking Us Back" by Benefits
Kingsley Hall, Jonny Snowball, Robbie Major, James Hewitson, Paul Chapman
Recorded by Stephen Norman in Saltburn and Stockton-on-Tees
Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering, Leeds

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Benefits Middlesbrough, UK

An issues based music collective from Teesside in the North East of England. We write songs about the urgencies that concern us. These songs are loud.

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