The Barricades Built

from Politics by Paper Rifles

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Combining both the Politics EP and the Made To Break/Four Hours single (previously only available digitally), the Politics Maxi-EP comes as a picture disc in a card sleeve featuring original artwork by Andy Bastow and design by Sean Kennedy.

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Here we will stand under flags dyed to red
This one's from the heart, but it aims for the head
We'll stand behind barricades built from the furniture we took from home
The rivers run red with the words that we said and the blood that we owe

Man makes a martyr and Christ makes a saint
Tie colours to masts, but they change with the paint
So now we must shoulder our rifles and answer our calling to arms
It'll be over by Christmas, then back to the family and back to the farm

They say that this country, it speaks to your soul
Well that's just as well 'cause my body is broken and leaden with holes

So stand up, bear your arms and bare your chest
Bet your bottom dollar that this life is a test for the next

The years bleed us dry but the penny won't drop
As we kill off the sons that we raised with the crops
The battle lines scored in the soil are too heavy with loss to ignore
So it's on with the cap and the boots and the march to the end of it all

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from Politics, released December 23, 2014

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Acoustic/indie/punk/rock/singing/hectoring from Edinburgh. Anti-Manifesto and MTAT Records. Get to the chorus.

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