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Joe Solo & Rebekah Findlay - Old Empire Island

from A NORTHERN SOUL by Joe Solo

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45 more men, women and children
Died fleeing a warzone last night
While some bloke who panic-bought 300 bog rolls says:
"They should have stayed there to fight."
And upstairs the son of his father spreads hatred
With tweets under some made-up name
Behold the foot soldiers of Old Empire Island
Who shoot before they've taken aim.

In the dinghy a desperate child clings to mother
Who cries at the first sight of land
While the cameramen shoot the reporters
Who use the word 'Migrants' as much as they can
While there on the shoreline the Union Jack junkies
All getting their fix from The Sun
A line of foot soldiers for Old Empire Island
Who march to the beat of its drum.

One more needless corpse in one more needless coffin
Is lowered down into the ground
While inside the leaders who cut and then cut
Tell us there's not enough to go round
As huddled in doorways the hungry and desperate
Can't get the words out for tears
All of them silenced by Old Empire Island
Drowned by the sound of the jeers

Somebody stands up to speak and he says:
"There's a reason that this is our lot!
And if you want to know why we're poor
Then don't look at the dinghy, look at the yacht!"
But inside the rich draw their plans for tomorrow
While the poor they still pass them the pen
And Old Empire island ships bombs to the warzone
And the whole thing starts over again.

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from A NORTHERN SOUL, released February 1, 2021
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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