Under the Gallows

from Urban Folk by Little Big Noise

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The future was bright. The smiling horizons of naivety. How brutal the bite. An idea imposed so arbitrarily.

Ideal type born free. Living through life on the contrary. Ideals die while thoughts flee. Law as a lie. As the end of me.

One trip. You'll be sentenced. You'll see. What's this? I mean no harm.

We innocent sons of liberty. Good citizens known to the authorities. Fresh fruit fallen from the old state tree, will all hang under the gallows.

You can be nice. A shining desciple to your empathy. And you can be right with passion the guide of rationality.

Don't lose sight of a smile. It's only mankind here that's on trial. Late the burn out for a while. The powers that be the tantrum of a small child.

One trip. You'll be sentenced. You'll see. What's this? I mean no harm.

We innocent sons of liberty. Good citizens known to the authorities. Fresh fruit fallen from the old state tree, will all hang under the gallows.

Don't try running. There's no choice in a force that will hunt you down. Don't try violence. Only silence and submission will help you now. But can we leave The Man behind? Can we force freedom to fly?

Where were the laughs? Where was the love for our democracy? We raised the trough, and flattened the peak now we're in pergatory. Normality lost, like a boy in a boat on a calm see, control is not the core of the existence of society.

One trip. You'll be sentenced. You'll see. Now justice; we need your arm.

We innocent sons of liberty. Good citizens know to the authorities. Fresh fruit fallen from the old state tree will all hang under the gallows.

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from Urban Folk, released January 12, 2010

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Little Big Noise Greater London, UK

Little Big Noise is the acoustic folk/punk brainchild of South East London based singer-songwriter Nick Torry

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