4 Day countdown to the release of We don't live in America by The False Dots - The Crows

4 days to go to the launch of We don't live in America, the brand new album by The False Dots. Today, we preview one of our absolute Ska bangers, The Crows. This song is a real toe tapper! Lyrically, it is a collision of two ideas. I started a song about the rise of the high rise Barnet. When I was a kid, the only high rise building I knew was Green Shield house in Edgware. It seemed incredibly posh. Everyone loved Green Shield stamps! Now Barnet is awash with such buildings. What is sad is that whilst when I was a kid, we had open air swimming pools, good local shops, youth clubs, etc, now there is nowhere to go. I had been playing around with the the idea, but it didn't gel. Then I was having a discussion with my daughter. I jokingly said I could write a song about anything. She was looking at the TEMU page and saw a crow outfit. She said, if you can write a song about Crows, I'll come to your next gig in a crow outfit. So the song was adapted. She kept her word!

The Crows

I look out the window, the skies are grey

Rats eat the rubbish and the pigeons are at play

You don’t see the cops walking round here

Just wino’s on the bench drinking high strength beer

-  Oh Yeah x 4

It aint a ghost town its worse than that

The psycho next door murdered my cat

Anyone with money, they moved far away

You’d have to be insane if you wanted to stay

 

Ch

If you like the smell of weed, you’ll always catch a whiff

If you like a line of coke, You can always score a sniff

If you like to watch the wildlife, there’s plenty to see

But only the crows are well and truly free

Oh Yeah x 4

 

Middle 8

It used to be oh so nice, at the swimming pool with a cold choc ice

We had a woollies and a nice little pub that did warm bitter and decent grub

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They put up towers, now you can’t see the stars

If you see any cops, they zoom past in cars

They closed down the pool there’s nowhere to go

The kids  all smoke Crack and spend their time stoned

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Ch

If you like the smell of weed, you’ll always catch a whiff

If you like a line of coke, You can always score a sniff

If you like to watch the wildlife, there’s plenty to see

But only the crows are well and truly free

 

Coda

Someone’s doing well, but it they don’t live round here

We got forgotten there’s nothing but tears

We live in a town where no sane people go

And the only wild life you see is pigeons, rats and a crows

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