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Mr Bond

I love Bond music. They are almost classical pieces in such that the music often goes off in tangents before coming back with a bang into a big bond theme - usually when 007 is jumping off the helicopter using the Queen’s knickers as a parachute. But there is so much shite and hype around the films now and they seem to get used as some sort of national feel good factor.

This song is a reaction to all that but more directly about the manipulation of the truth, the media and ultimately the British public by the British State post 9/11 and around the 2nd Gulf War. The erosion of civil liberties, the assassination of Jean Charles de Menezes , weapons of mass destruction..... all the time we were patronisingly told ‘trust us – it’s for the greater good’.

The middle part of the song is partly based on a programme by the journalist, John Pilger, in which he visited a family in Baghdad whose kids were still traumatised some years after the 1st Gulf War and would still scream in terror every time they heard a plane overhead. I’m not sure Geoff Hoon and Tony Blair’s assertions that ‘future generations of Iraqis will thank us’ quite stacks up.

Songwriting can be a cathartic process - I'm less angry about it all since I wrote this song.

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Mr. Bond

Mr. Bond
allow me to introduce myself
Just in case
you mistake me for someone else
I am the one
who gives you the bullets for your gun
That being said
I don’t expect them aimed at me and fired through my head

‘Cos I’m hearing now
I’m living in fear of you now
Precisely my point, Mr Bond
You’ve a licence to kill
Enjoy the thrill

Mr. Bond
A postcard from a foreign land
Written in
A language I don’t understand
I never knew
The things you told me weren’t true
But now I know
The only safe conclusion is that you will have to go

‘Cos I’m hearing now
I’m just disbelieving now
Precisely my point, Mr. Bond
You’ve a licence to kill
Enjoy the thrill

Last night when I held you in my arms
Your heart yearned for a place you’d only dreamed of
I’ll never forget the look in your eyes
When you asked me who it was they were scared of
How fragile the life I gave to you
I’ll take away the demons if I could
They whisper they’ll take you away
But I’ll be here to block their way
I hope to God they rue the day
Peace be with you
Assalamu a-laikum
Peace be upon you, my Love

Sealed with a kiss
A passport written by the Queen
For all to see
In the wreckage of a thousand dreams
I heard it said
Their children will thank us for their deaths
But if it were me
I’d find all those responsible and drag them to their knees

‘Cos I’m hearing now
All hope’s disappearing now
Precisely my point, Mr Bond
You’ve a licence to kill
Enjoy the thrill
Enjoy the thrill
Enjoy the thrill
Enjoy the………..thrill

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from Live And In Stereo, released November 19, 2013
Words and music by Scott Crawford

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The Cut Throat Razors Glasgow, UK

The Cut Throat Razors are a sharp dressed 10-piece band from Glasgow. Their first album, ‘Dr Gelati and the Lemon Garden’ was released in December 2012. Their self-penned songs of love, lingerie, libation and liberation are backed up with a big punchy sound, evoking ska, motown, new wave and big band. This is The Cut Throat Razors- you will find them strangely unique,or perhaps, uniquely strange… ... more

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