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This Is Not Your Country Lyrics
Road blocks and fire
Barb wire upon barb wire
This is not your country
Armoured cars, corrugated scars
Grafitti scrawls:
"This is not your country"
Home sweet fortress
Gunshot - we hate your kind
Get back !
This is not your country
I need some air
And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:
"Born and raised ?"
But this is not my country
We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
One child shot, but so what ?
Laid my son
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared
In my own country
We're old news
All's well
Say BBC scum
Everybody's under control
Of our surveillance globes
We're old news
All's well
And thirty years could be a thousand
And this Peugeot ad
Spins round in my head
British soldier pointing a gun
And I'm only trying to post a letter
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared
Old news
All's well
BBC scum
You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth (repeated)
Barb wire upon barb wire
This is not your country
Grafitti scrawls:
"This is not your country"
Gunshot - we hate your kind
Get back !
This is not your country
And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:
"Born and raised ?"
But this is not my country
All's well
Say BBC scum
One child shot, but so what ?
In a box, three feet long
And I still don't know why
And I'm scared
In my own country
All's well
Say BBC scum
Everybody's under control
Of our surveillance globes
All's well
And thirty years could be a thousand
And this Peugeot ad
Spins round in my head
British soldier pointing a gun
And I'm only trying to post a letter
A short walk home becomes a run
And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared
All's well
BBC scum
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth
Zip up your mouth (repeated)
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The song title is taken from a line in the film "Romper Stomper"
I think this song is about the situation in Northern Ireland, which Morrissey is obviously connected to through his Irish/English heritage.
Yes- he confirmed this in the notes for the Maladjusted reissue. A haunting song, very sad and impassioned.
Laid my son in a box 3 feet long...and I still don't know why...
He once had a child and it saved his life and he never even asked his name. ("The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.")
He once had a child and it saved his life and he never even asked his name. ("The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.")
zip UP your Mouth. Unlike most successful pop icons, Morrissey is more potent with each passing...
A friend to the end. a fiend in my heart. Hard as nails, kids.
We're old news All's well Say BBC scum Everybody's under control Of our surveillance globes
I feel this is the idea that the media will cover a story until it becomes old news. A child is shot dead somewhere, but that is not today's story and so what does it matter? It is the way that the news will show you one thing they consider important and completely ignore another.