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    1. Stand Up

    From the recording Live on the Ley

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    Stand Up

    Alastair Caplin, Jez Hellard, Nathan Ball, Nye Parsons & Scott Cook
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    The title track from Nathan Ball's excellent debut album, chiselled out of a speech made by Winston Churchill on May 2nd, 1935, and performed on a guitar made by Nathan himself.

    Nathan Ball - Vocals/Guitar
    Alastair Caplin - Violin
    Nye Parsons - Double Bass
    Jez Hellard - Harmonicas/Vocals

    Lyrics

    When the situation, was more manageable all action, was neglected
    Now that it has so assiduously eluded our grip
    We apply to late the remedies to lessen our allure
    Towards such deeply set benightedness, and the chances of a cure

    Stand up, eyes open, ears down too the ground

    There is nothing in this story that is new for us to find
    It boasts an age that is comparable to the books of sybillines
    Stand up, eyes open, ears down too the ground
    It does fall into that long and dismal, catalogue of fruitlessness
    In the confirmed unteachability of mankind through experience
    Want of foresight and no care to act when action would be simple
    Lack of clear affective thinking by a confused council until
    Emergency inevitably summons up its song
    Until self preservation rises up to strike it’s jarring gong
    These are the features that do constitute, our endless repetition throughout his…. story

    Stand up, eyes open, ears down to the ground
    Stand up, eyes open, ears down to the ground
    Their power lies in our obedience
    So we must disobey Instead of settling for convenience
    To then look, the other way
    Stand up, eyes open, ears down to the ground
    Stand up, eyes open, ears down to the ground
    Stand up.

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