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The Statues Of London
(Words & Music Claire Foxx)

You got your memories & your marching orders
You got locations from a Google map
You gone & found yourselves a new religion
“Defender vigilantes”, well how about that?
You went blind for the sake of empire
A bronze figurehead is not a history book
You wanna cast yourselves in a new revision
— protecting tyrants is a really bad look.

They went & built it all up
So we’ll tear it back down,
The statues of London lay upon the ground
Between the bell, book & candle & the burial ground
— They never shed a tear
They wanna build it back up
So we’ll tear it back down
With the statues strewn across old hallowed ground
We have all lost so much more than we’ve found
— on the way from there to here.

From the engines of empire to the age of indecision
To the great & the good & the knights of the throne
Frozen on a plinth, staring down the generations
In a state of decay we’re worn down to the bone.
You’ve gone and found yourself a new religion
One where property matters because black live don’t
In the age of pandemic, derision & division
Are you really more concerned about a lump of stone?

[chorus]

When they came out of the night with their anger & their cameras,
the whole world watched as they dragged old dixie down,
In London goose-stepping skinheads seig-heilng Churchill
— and the statues of Westminster had all gone to ground...
They didn’t even made a sound.

Where are statues of slaves who put us here?
Where are the streets that broke them paved in gold
Where are the broken, the bloody & the missing?
Where are the children whose lives we stole?
Where did the nightmare of England’s dreaming go?
Where is the common-wealth of nations past?
Where is the jubilee forged in chains & fire?
When will all this pass?

[chorus]

Statues strewn across old London town.

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released August 7, 2020
Claire Foxx: Basses, Voices, Drumses & Organses
Recorded at home during Lockdown July/August 2020
Cover art by Epona

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