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Panic Stations

from Oneiric Tulpas by Chris Harris

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Centenarian pensioners push themselves to exhaustion to raise money for the NHS after a decade of cuts left it without enough equipment to protect its people during a pandemic. Meanwhile, tax-dodging billionaires who sued that very same NHS for millions are now asking for handouts from the Government of a country they refused to contribute to.

Yep, this is an angry album. Just listen to the seething contempt in those vocals...

...but do stick around for the guitar solo. Pleased with my playing on this one.

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Repeat your slogans as good citizens and true
Reactions all predicted, what you think is known
Never voice dissent or they'll be coming after you
How sad that you believe your thoughts are yours and yours alone

The next satanic panic, reds under the bed
Democracy is reeling from each hit and run
Don't need your approval, just a rising sense of dread
Consent is manufactured, paranoia's how it's done

If you think using propaganda here's absurd
You do not understand its role
In making sure our view of truth is ever blurred
Unquestioning obedience the goal
Take your place in the bewildered herd
That's how they keep you in control

Repeat the narrative 'til it becomes the truth
Pretend the fiction is the real
You can tell folk anything when they don't look for proof
You simply have to show them what to feel

Look at the story that they're selling
and as yourself, what does it lack?
Would it be more or less compelling
if you had access to the facts?

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from Oneiric Tulpas, released May 1, 2020

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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