1984 (Live at SO36 16/07/2022)

[Verse 1]

The vans they come in convoys now, stealing through the dawn

Silent in the countryside, in the hills up to the North

There's road blocks on the Meden bridge, there's click, click clicking on the phone

They're sealing off our villages, they're sealing off our homes

[Verse 2]

Her father crossed the battle lines in the first months of the war

She frowns down at the soup kitchen, she doesn't have a fathеr anymore

It's cold in the early mornings, standing with your matеs

Staring at the thick blue line armed and ready at the gates

[Chorus]

This ain't some tin-pot story arriving from a distant shore

But our own sweet, green, and pleasant land in 1984

Two, three, four

[Verse 3]

The servants of our great nation have lied in the name of us all

While the officers of peace and order are busy breaking every law

There's hundreds on trumped-up charges, hundreds on the streets

The future of our villages sown with bitter seeds

[Chorus]

And hatred starts to rumble where there was no hate before

In our own sweet, green, and pleasant land in 1984

[Post-Chorus]

Oh

Oh-oh-oh

[Bridge]

Nobody wanted to see the blood

As the blue lights flash through in the night

But all the words fell on deaf ears

And now the blind frustration bites

[Outro]

Two nations under one crown, divided more and more

In our own sweet, green, and pleasant land

In our own sweet, green, and pleasant land

In our own sweet, green, and pleasant land