Been busy organising the compilation album and also a bit of FAWMING
Here's one of my FAWM numbers inspired by a visit to my home town of Coventry a few weeks ago.
Boy has that city been mashed up by the developers. I think it's the same as a lot of big cities these days where the centre is taken over by student accommodation.
The ruins of the old Cathedral get me every time there and I wrote this song about the Coventry blitz. My grandparents were bombed out twice and I still have the old clock that my granddad pulled out of the rubble of one of their flattened houses.
Siren sounds evacuation
Women children running startled
Images of broken bodies
Covered in an orange dust
The war of greed where no-one wins
And men machines dehumanised
Minds erased of memories
Fuelled by bad amphetamines
Just want to live our lives
Families and children
Let us live in peace
The bombs came in late November
Pouring down a rain of terror
Molten metal, smoke and sulphur
Lighting up the sky
Fire spread across the city
Some were saved, no more the pity
Trapped beneath the rubble
Only knowing they would die
Nobody asked our opinion
Just want to live our lives
Let us live in peace
Oh the bombers overhead
They're sounding our death knell
Is it them is it you is it me ?
I just can't tell now
Some could never reconcile
The terrors of those fateful nights
Where everything around them
Was savaged and destroyed
Simple few reminders
Of a city's darkest hour
And now fewer can remember
But that city will never die
(c) Bradley – 2018