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Terror Alert
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Melodramatic electroclash with a few Keith Emerson solos thrown in
VOSTOK LAKE is an exponent of "portable techno-folk for the 21st century" hailing from Auckland, New Zealand. VOSTOK LAKE is a culturally revolutionary organisation aiming to supersede and replace guitar-based rock music altogether. VOSTOK LAKE's musical style is a careful balance of 80's-style beats, prog-rock inspired keyboard pyrotechnics and carefully crafted lyrical hand-grenades. Some songs deal with contemporary politics. Others tell stories of angst, comedy and high weirdness. Kelkaj estas en la internacia lingvo Esperanto.
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Genre
Electronic • Electro
Charts
Peak #2,062
Peak in subgenre #95
Author
Daphne Lawless
Rights
2008
Uploaded
April 28, 2008
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MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:56
Story behind the song
On October 15th 2007, a bunch of political activists in New Zealand were arrested on trumped up terrorism charges. With apologies to Johnny Cash.
Lyrics
Woke up one morning 'bout quarter to eight There were twenty-two cops standing at my gate They said they'd come to get me on a terror alert They took away my computer And my tino rangatiratanga shirt They took me to the court about half-past ten There were twenty-five people all making a din They said they didn’t buy that crap about a terror alert But then I fell down the stairs And the cops made sure that it hurt. And the judge walked in And the police said “This no-account terrorist wants us all dead Planning mass destruction and all that what-have-ya We got the evidence on our candid camera” Well the judge got spooked and denied me bail So they threw my goddamn carcass in Mount Eden Jail And like the old song says, time keeps dragging on But the trains keep on rolling... on out to Henderson. Up spoke a gentleman of the press “The cops are right and I wish them success The boys in blue have a duty to save us From anything more radical than voting Labour” Well, I spent three weeks just stewing away Till the solicitor-general had the nerve to say It was all just a “false alarm” on the terror alert But what I want to know Is where we're gonna go If they can throw you in the pokey With no evidence to show And when will they give back my tino rangatiratanga shirt?
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