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taking the piss

from unfinished business by Shinri

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I wrote/received this track on a beer filter in what used to be "The Acoustic Café". I can't remember who took me there but it had turned into the backstage of "The London Astoria". The Acoustic Café was simply the best place to have a gig for any aspiring London artist, it used to have mirrors on all walls so you could always communicate with whomever you were playing with, nomatter where you stood and it had been turned into a bar!!! So I was already not in a good mood.

There were all these metal/rock looking kids having coffee or beer with their phones and laptops in front of them and they were having polite conversation whilst the background music was death trash metal.
Now I dig all music that comes from the heart, crotch and toes...
But everything has its way... AND YOU EITHER GO TO THE GIG OR YOU LISTEN TO IT IN YOUR CAR WITH YOUR SYSTEM ON MAX OR IN SOME OTHER PLACE WITH YOUR SYSTEM ON MAX SO YOU DROWN IN THE SPEEDY PRECISION OF NOISE...
Not as a background music in what was left of my little temple...

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I don’t want to make angry music
I don’t want to shout ugly words
There has always been confusion
Because the truth is held absurd

And every time I touch the beauty
For a moment I exist
Then this money made illusion
Gives the riches to the rich

You’re taking the Piss
You’re taking the Piss
You’re taking the Psss
Your religion is it Kapitalisssm?

And I really respect knowledge
Yes I really tried to learn
But then when I went to college
All my teachers were perverse

Regurgitating falsehoods
It was there I understood
That people aren’t equal
There’s the bad and there’s the good

You’re taking the Piss
You’re taking the Piss
You’re taking the Psss
Your religion is it Kapitalisssm?

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from unfinished business, released April 1, 2016
ShINRI Vox & Guit

Recorded by Dan Sayers, ShINRI & Andy Dorman

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