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   Grateful Dread (gratefuldread@gratefuldread.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 23:43:09 JST Grateful Dread

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   • DoomsdaysCW

   @DoomsdaysCW Love this song. And Karl. And Shuhada’. ❤️

   Thank you.

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     DoomsdaysCW (doomsdayscw@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 23:43:10 JST DoomsdaysCW

     A lot of the songs on #WorldParty's 1986 album, "Private Revolution" hint at the coming rise of the radical right ("The Ballad of the Little Man") -- that sort of hatred was not a new thing, but songwriter Karl Wallinger warned us that it could get worse.

     "Private Revolution" has always been one of my favorite albums. #ShuhadaSadaqat's vocals on this album are especially haunting, particularly on the song "Hawaiian Island World." And the lyrics... Well, unfortunately, we're seeing this happen all too often these days...

     Hawaiian Island World

     "The shopkeeper from Illinois came round
     A freshly fired gun in his hand
     He said he'd just shot a young poet
     For writing something he didn't understand

     Gone were the lines that he loved to forget
     Safe were the folk words of truth would upset
     With God right behind him
     His gun by his side
     There was nowhere for these weirdos
     To run or to hide
     The day of their judgement
     It was due to arrive
     Get them on the record
     Make sure they don't survive

     And we can all sit watching
     Our Hawaiian island world
     Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming
     Of my Hawaiian island world"

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgHwAY-4LU
     #BannedBooks #RabidRight #RadicalRight

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