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The Revolution won’t be televised
because Bristol is on fire and there’s no T.Vs left to buy
Pavements where we drew with chalk as kids
are now covered in chalk out lines and shadows cast by fireflies
with the horizon in flames
we’re scratching off each day
that well be forced to spend
wiping our own blood of our blades

You say that you dream of starting anew
then these bricks are meant for building
and not for being used to smash the concrete and the glass
these are the mistakes of our past
and if we try and try, we can rebuild

The sounding of the gun begins the race
to take all we can get, and to get all we can take
but throwing petrol bombs wont articulate
our questions and the frustration in what we’re trying to say
so the guilty declare war
and the innocent suffer more
known unto God becomes the name
of he who died in vein

It’s hard to sit here and not feel sick
as I watch in disbelief,
the place that put me on my feet making nightmares out of dreams

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from Through Acts of God and Idiocy, released May 4, 2013

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Jack Holmes Wien, Austria

Some song writers serenade you with beautifully preformed 3 minute mixtures of well-crafted lyrics, skilled playing and angelic singing. Jack Holmes is not one of these song writers. The exiled Englishman, now seeking refuge in the streets of Vienna, is to Acoustic Music what losing your virginity is in comparison to your repertoire of sexual encounters; fast, loud and just a little awkward. ... more

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