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“How can I feel proud of a country that’s never felt proud of me? The only pride I feel is pride for my family who marched from the mines, pride for the resilience that my community has to continue to exist, pride towards their efforts to fight, to care for one another and to love while living within the chains of self-interested rulers who shift their sympathies towards profits rather than people.
Gammon is not a song to revolt against the working class people of Britain, it is a song calling for the working class people of Britain to revolt, together.
How much longer will we succumb to being frozen by the 1%? How much longer will we allow private school delinquents to dictate the lives they could never comprehend living? Make decisions on our bodies, make decisions on how we love, make decisions on what we are worth, slaughter our healthcare system in the name of profits and leave the sick to die?
They will turn us against each other, they will fear monger, they will make boogeymen of the most marginalised because they know that if the people had solidarity, the people would be powerful - and that scares them. There are more of us than them.
And they should be afraid because I trust the intellect of the working class people of Britain, who are increasingly coming to the undoubted conclusion that enough is enough. Dress the suits in red, put them to bed.
The flag is already in flames, the confidence in our country burns rapidly. I didn’t destroy the flag, it was destroyed long before I set foot on this earth through the horrors of imperial colonisation, destruction of our earth and the age-long terrorising of the proletariat who are the cogs and gears, the bricks and mortar, to our existence upon it. What does it stand for now? What will you stand for? The power’s in your hands darling, this is Gammon.”
- Casper being deep
lyrics
Said the cops won’t catch me
But they sure as hell ain’t with you
Mans a diamond to the system
He’s the one that they can’t go through
Sittin' in a motel room
Cops don’t come too soon
What have we come to
Making love to what could be
Haven’t you seen
That you are slaves to constitutions
Fuck it up
And stop
think
Breathe
Listen to the preachers
In the street
Making you feel bad
What you've done
Is what will be
Fuck it up
And then you’ll see
Think that we done progress
Well we got some shit to address
We ain’t done and we ain’t close to
What these bastards have put us through
Dress the suits in red
Put them to bed
Rest gammon heads
The liars said
The earths not dead
Yet
Private school delinquents
No bodies to rent
No minds on lease
You is your property
Burn your flag
Start policing the police
The powers in your hands darling
(While you bask in the imperial core)
And the zone is closer than you think
(You swim in pools of blood)
And when you arrive at mr mr's door
(Our terrorists live in palaces)
The country will be yours once more
(You’ve been at war your whole lives)
And the king will be crowned
The king of the queers,
The king of the dunes,
The city queen at day the master at night
Once a bitch and now the son
You run your kingdom and i mine
(This is a class worth fighting for)
You’re a diamond, just look in and you’ll see
(Rejoice in your collective power)
(Rejoice rejoice rejoice)
credits
released April 1, 2023
Produced by Andrew Sanders of Kings Road Studios
Drums - Ali Conor
Bass - Jacob Jones
Keys - JIm Webster
Lead Guitar - Chris Norton
Lead vocals - Casper James
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