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This Is a Fix
Secret Police

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Secret Police

Release date: 25th August 2008

From This Is a Fix

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About This Track

"Secret Police" is a track by The Automatic, from the album This Is a Fix, released 25th August 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Secret Police

Touching your skin

Is a victory

A revolution

Of hearts and minds

When does a movement become a regime?

When your spies with the smiling eyes call in the secret police

Call in the secret police

What happened to the vision we had

This silence is a strangled cry (call in the secret police)

The freedom to say whatever we like

Replaced with a recital of lines

When the rot sets in

Mistrust and suspicion

And to caress now a strange hand in the night

The manifesto we prize

With secrets and lies

A state of fear

A cold war

Call in the secret police

What happened to the vision we had

This silence is a strangled cry (call in the secret police)

The freedom to say whatever we like

Replaced with a recital of lines

What happened to the vision we had

This silence is a strangled cry (call in the secret police)

The freedom to say whatever we like

Replaced with a recital of lines

Don't make me disappear I have not toed the line

Don't make me disappear I have not toed the line, (disappear, disappear)

Don't make me disappear I have not toed the line, (disappear, disappear)

It doesn't have to get like this

It doesn't have to get like this

Call in the secret police

Call in the secret police

What happened to the vision we had, (ahh, ahh)

This silence is a strangled cry (call in the secret police) (ahh, ahh)

The freedom to say whatever we like (ahh, ahh)

Replaced with a recital of lines (ahh, ahh)

What happened to the vision we had, (ahh, ahh)

This silence is a strangled cry (call in the secret police) (ahh, ahh)

The freedom to say whatever we like (ahh, ahh)

Replaced with a recital of lines (ahh, ahh)

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Track details

From This Is a Fix

2008

Album

Release year

2008

—Sleepwalking
—Responsible Citizen
—Bad Guy
—Accessories
—In the Mountains
—Light Entertainment
—Magazines
—Make the Mistakes
—This Is a Fix
—Secret Police
—This Ship

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Credits

Credited: Butch Walker