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The wind blows whispers down the street,
Having free reign with the town so bleak -
Like everything else it's - all gone away.
The Town Hall clock gives forth its chime,
For no-one there to ask the time -
Like everything else they've - all gone away.
The Grocer's shop hangs up its sign
The sign say's closed it's a sign of the times -
Like everything else they've - all gone away.
But somewhere the party never ends
And greedy hands rub together again -
Shipping out the profits that they've stolen
An eerie wail comes from the pit,
The ghosts of the men take the morning shift -
Just like clockwork - rusting away.
Come take a walk upon these hills
And see how monetarism kills -
Whole communities -
Even families -
There's nothing left so - They've all gone away.
Having free reign with the town so bleak -
Like everything else it's - all gone away.
The Town Hall clock gives forth its chime,
For no-one there to ask the time -
Like everything else they've - all gone away.
The sign say's closed it's a sign of the times -
Like everything else they've - all gone away.
And greedy hands rub together again -
Shipping out the profits that they've stolen
The ghosts of the men take the morning shift -
Just like clockwork - rusting away.
And see how monetarism kills -
Whole communities -
Even families -
There's nothing left so - They've all gone away.
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Submitted by
redmax On Apr 15, 2002
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the effects of thatcherism, of course.
A song about how various decisions made by the Conversative Goverment in the 1980s effected towns that were built around a particular industry - more or less anyway.
The Conversative Goverment closed down a lot of industires in Britain in favour of shipping in from abroad for a much cheaper price. The most commonly referenced is the Coal Mines due the high profile Miner's Strike in 1984/5. The town in this song is a town built around the Coal Mining buisisness 'the eerie wail from the pit' and the 'ghosts of men taking the morning shift'.
This lead to a lot of things being closed down, in this case, mines. Which lead to a lot of people moving away from the towns that were built around these industries leaving ghost towns in thier wake.
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