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Surrounded by Savages

from A Warning to the Curious by Squalid Rooms

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Surrounded by Savages

In a squalid room, a baby cries
Unseen by its mother’s lifeless eyes.
On the streets outside, the stray dogs bay.
The child won’t live to see another day.
Not another day.

In a bombed out school, the teacher stares
At the rows of tiny bloodstained chairs
And she asks her god, she asks him why
So many innocents always have to die

An old couple hug and kiss goodbye,
Turn on the gas and lay down to die.
They’ve lived through too many wars
To face the horror of any more.
Not another war.

By the Cenotaph, a young girl begs
On the spot a bomb took both her legs
With her ballet shoes placed by her side.
How can we bear such a dreadful sight?

As jet fighters scream overhead,
Masked militia shoot the townsfolk dead.
They pile the bodies in the market square.
Soon there’ll be no one left living there,
No one left at all.

A broken man, his pockets filled with stones,
Sad reminders of his long-lost hopes,
He ties a noose upon a tree
And smiles knowing that, that he’ll soon be free.

They’re building empires behind the barricades,
An empty, meaningless masquerade .
But they wont stop till this world is razed.
They’re more evil than the tyrants they displaced,
The tyrants they replaced.

So, we’ll all fall down when the wind blows.
Will we ever get back up again? No one knows.
There is no love in these days of rage,
The worst horror on earth has been uncaged.

There is no love in these days of rage x8

We’re surrounded by savages!

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from A Warning to the Curious, released May 29, 2021
Keith Gale: Music / All instruments
Andi Brooks: Lyrics / Vocals

Recorded 2016

Mastered by Keith Gale 2021

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