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I've grown out of Spitfires and Hurricanes
They're poetic, but not so profound
As the hundreds of millions of stories
That play out down here on the ground
Of course we remember the sacrifice
Of those who they labelled 'The Few'
But each pilot needed a plane made
And each plane it needed a crew
And all of them needed an airfield
Without it they couldn't leave the ground
I've grown out of Spitfires and Hurricanes
They're poetic, but not so profound.

I've grown out of Lancaster Bombers
Aren't they Heinkels in all but their name?
They may have bombed different people
But the end result was all the same
If we can't see past all these images
Then how can we say never again?
Cos how does bombing women and children
Make us any better than them?
We had to get rid of the Nazis
They were evil, a blight, and a stain
But I've grown out of Lancaster Bombers
Weren't they Heinkels in all but a name?

I've grown out of Spitfires and Hurricanes
I see the heroes in front of my eyes
The everyday fights of my people
Not the ones played out there in the skies
There's a young woman feeding her family
On less than they had in the war
And is a fascist saluting a Spitfire
What the killing and dying was for?
So I'm down here clearing up rubble
While the dogfight plays out in the skies
I've grown out of Spitfires and Hurricanes
I see the heroes in front of my eyes

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from A Northern Coastal Town: Hull In The Blitz, released July 16, 2021
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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.

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