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Dead Army Blues

by Dead City Beat

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It has literally taken me years to finish this track. I could never seem to get the lyrics right or get the production noisy enough without compromising the power or turning it into a muddy mess. This is the final mix of the completed work.

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One nation under God, another under its thumb
The Eagle is on the horizon - Judas is on the run
Miriam is in the bedroom, Ali is sleeping in rags
And I’m this unknown soldier wrapped in a dead flag

Get out get out
The new king has come
Liberation has its price – Subjugation by the allied guns
Don’t shout, don’t shout
The Republican Guards will come
Drag me off and give me a choice – “Fight with us or face our guns”

Cruise missiles strike at dawn
But the city already fell
In to the arms of a tyrant
With oil wealth to sell

Like a vicious junkie
Addiction strikes the veins
A CIA trained assassin
We coronate our own King Hussein

Get out! Get out! The new king is enraged
Choke their Kurdish throats with Serin gas
Lay their cities to fucking waste

Don’t shout, don’t shout
The Americans will never come
Aligned with the dark Sunni Prince
A cruel strategy with the desired outcomes

Scream, plead, pray
Bleed these dreams away
Lead, fight or follow
Leading us on

The poppies bloom and the milk that flows
Drains deep into Western veins
I was simple farmer when the Russians came
A Marxist army with a marksmen’s intent
The Kalashnikov sings the anthem
of a manifesto razing all dissent

Look out! Look out!
The new Tsar is obscene
Revolution has its price
The Afghan army or the Mujahideen

Don’t doubt, don’t doubt
The suffering has just begun
The mines define the Soviet lines
A Cold War frontier so cruelly maligned

Scream, plead, pray
The West just turns away
Seed strife and sorrow
Breeds hate on

Scream, plead, pray
The West just turns away
Seed strife and sorrow
Breeds hate tomorrow

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released January 20, 2013

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Dead City Beat London, Ontario

and Red Arms (redarms.bandcamp.com)

Dead City Beat is an experimental project from the urban black hole of London, ON. Dead City Beat fell out of the post punk movement, borrowing elements from dub, noise, punk and psychedelia. Dead City Beat’s sound is varied, almost manic. It's what urban radio should sound like... ... more

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