| Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I was sitting, on the roof of my house With a shotgun And a six pack of beers,six pack of beers,six pack of beers. The newscaster says, "The enemy is among us" As bombs explode on the 30 bus, Kill your middle class indecision, Now is not the time for liberal thought, So I go hunting for witches I go hunting for witches Heads are going to roll I go hunting for.. 90's,Optimistic as a teen. Now its terror airplanes crash into towers, into towers, into towers. The Daily Mail says the enemies among us, Taking our women and taking our jobs, All reasonable thought is being drowned out by the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood So I go hunting for witches I go hunting for witches Heads are going to roll.. I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires There must be accountability Disparate and misinformed Fear will keep us all in place So I go hunting for witches I go hunting for witches Heads are going to roll I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires There must be accountability Disparate and misinformed Fear will keep us all in place |
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| Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is definitely about the LONDON bombings, not Iraq... "Hunting for Witches" lyrics were influenced by the terrorist attacks on London's transportation system in July 2005, the September 11 attacks in the United States, and the media's reaction to the attacks. It also touches upon the amount of control the media has over modern society. Frontman Kele Okereke stated in an interview:[1] The 30 bus in Hackney, which is just around the corner from where I live, was blown up. [That song was] written when I was just observing the reactions of the mainstream press in [the UK] and I was just amazed at how easy it'd been to whip them up into a fury. ... I guess the point about the song for me is post-September 11th, the media has really traded on fear and the use of fear in controlling people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_for_witches |
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