Name: Let it stand
Duration: P00H03M02S
Description: If you're a fan of Thatcher, you're probably in the wrong place right now.....get well soon - and come back when you're feeling better!

Let it stand

from Tales of Layton Rakes by Star Botherers

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There’s a statue planned for Grantham
I don’t think, it’s gonna last long
I don’t think it’s gonna last long at all
Cos whatever it’s made from it’s gonna have to be strong
or surrounded by a forty foot wall
Hated by the lefties, worshipped by the right
It’s a target for a viral vid, viral overnight
Northern town destruction
There’s no calcium in my bones
There’s’ a Lack of social housing an affordable homes
Your legacy is everywhere for everyone see
There’s no such thing as society
You drove the nail in the coffin of communities
Now ghost town generations
Live your policies
With zero hour contracts, food banks for the poor
In-work poverty – listen up there’s more
This verse is nothing new, you know its 40 years old
All that once was British has now been sold
Life blood of communities all shut down
So every where’s the same in these forgotten northern towns
So let it stand, as a symbol to lost workers’ rights
Let it stand to remind us of the miners’ strike
Let it stand as a monument to the poll tax riots
and let it stand to unite us , don’t give up the fight.

The greengrocer’s daughter on a pedestal
Surrounded by CCTV
That’s nothing to admire
And it’s nothing to aspire to
Hateful ideology
Sink or swim divisive rule
Designed to see the weakest fall
Cruel and ruthless
Heartless conscious
Profits over people
So let it stand as a beacon to hope not hate
Let it stand in defiance of section 28
Let it stand for resistance to all that’s wrong
And let it stand as inspiration for a protest song
Let it stand in isolation
As cold as stone
Let it spark imagination
To ask why is she alone
Let it stand in wretched glory
Let it tell its wretched story
As a lesson to us all let it stand.

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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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Debut Album 'Happy Angry' is available on Bandcamp and other digital platforms -

Latest album - ‘Tales of Layton Rakes’ - released
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