Name: Freethinker
Duration: P00H02M12S
Description: I wrote this song around 2008 - Ferocious Dog covered the song when Dave, Brad and Ellis were in the band. - Dave and I recorded it really badly on our debut EP - So we thought we'd have another go at it as a 5 piece band. - It's my personal stab at organised religion !

Freethinker

from Tales of Layton Rakes by Star Botherers

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I wrote this song around 2008 - Ferocious Dog covered the song when Dave, Brad and Ellis were in the band. - Dave and I recorded it really badly on our debut EP - So we thought we'd have another go at it as a 5 piece band. - It's my personal stab at organised religion !

lyrics

FREETHINKER
How can you sing a love song, you've never been in love
do you still hold faith, now you’ve seen us from above
writers win our history, fiction sells the truth
you look into my red eyes, now give me back my tooth
I won't take it as it comes no more
I'll pull against your open door
look around the corner you know it's not a sin
don't tell me what to think cos,I will question everything,
I'm a freethinking man, I don't need no guiding hand
I'm a freethinking man and I don't care if I'm damned
the centre of the universe, celebrated births, infidels and burnings, we’re
falling from the earth, the mighty, the chosen, golden crowns
The guilty ask the price and the innocent will drown.
chorus
two thousand years of evolution we're no closer to solution,
face the facts with no delusion, take away all the confusion
so we live with mind pollution, that's political contribution
choice removed by dilution, leaves a poorly substitution
War for peace now that's illusion, delivered with perfect elocution
in the face of destitution, there is only one conclusion
Revolution.

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from Tales of Layton Rakes, released December 10, 2021
Lyrics - A.Hawkins
Music - Star Botherers
Recorded-mixed-mastered and produced by J.Howe

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Star Botherers - 5 piece band based in Warsop - Notts -

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Latest album - ‘Tales of Layton Rakes’ - released
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