These People Know Their Place

from Find Your Silence by Jason Allen

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THESE PEOPLE KNOW THEIR PLACE

There's a band in the local Friday night
Playing Wonderwall
While the kids in the park
Are choking down nitrous in the rain
And it's Big Fight Night
On the council estate
Domestic issues spilling out on the street
It's just another day in the life
Of a town that time forgot

They shut the factory down
Before they closed the mine
They understood the cost of land
And built cheap

Knee-jerk tweets blowing
Far and wide on the wild west wind
Everyone stuck in the traffic
On the way to town

These people know their place

Retirement homes full of broken bones and dreams again
Spirit of the Blitz ain't what it was in the good old days

They heard the engines roar before they saw the flames
They understood the sacrifice and fought back

So they kept coming on strong
Cos they had nowhere to run
Coming on strong
Til the freedom here was won
And they would never tolerate these days

These people know their place

This town could make these people great
Start again, lose the hate
But no-one knows the time of day

In the corner of a field by the river
On the bank there's an inscription
On a memorial stone to the lost souls on the way
"There is nothing but this moment
There is nothing but today"
No social mediation

These people know their place
These people know their place
These people know their place

There's a band in the local Friday night
Playing Wonderwall

© 2019 Jason Allen

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from Find Your Silence, released September 18, 2019
Written, performed, produced and mixed by Jason Allen. Recorded in Somerset, England, January to September 2019.

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Jason Allen England, UK

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Somerset, England. Jason has written and self-recorded multiple solo albums and EPs, the most recent of which (February 2024) is called Borrowing Power From The Mill.

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