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Beat The Air

from Pantomime of Wealth by Latin Quarter

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Ein wütender Song über Menschen und ihre Angst vor Bomben.
Der Song wird aus drei Perspektiven erzählt. Strophe 1 aus der Sicht von Steves' Großmutter, Strophe 2 mit den Augen all derer, die im Luftschutzkeller kauern, um den Bomben zu entgehen. In der 3. Strophe geht es um britische Abgeordnete.
Zwei persönliche Geschichten von Steve Skaith bilden die Grundlage für diesen Text: Seine Großmutter hatte einen Pub nahe eines Luftwaffenstützpunktes und kannte all die Flugzeugbesatzungen sehr gut. Deren Lebenserwartung im 2. Weltkrieg war nicht allzu hoch, egal auf welcher Seite. Wann immer einer nicht zurückkehrte, nahm sie das sehr mit. Sie lag nachts im Bett und zählte die Flugzeuge, die zurückkamen. Sehr zum Leidwesen ihres Ehemannes, der ihr nahelegte, das nicht so sehr an sich heran zu lassen.

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Beat the Air
(Skaith)

Lying in her bed,
Counting the planes and hoping they all come home
From the raids to night in Coventry or Bremen
Huddled on a basement floor,
Praying that those planes would just go home
Back to whatever hell they came from.

Beat the air
Screams howl into silence
Tear the bonds
Their humanity will never save them
Never save them

She holds her children close
Hoping the God she has is watching still
To answer these young bewildered questions
As the city falls
Where are the heroes she can cling to?
In this war so hard and full of deception

Beat the air
Screams howl into silence
Tear the bonds
Their humanity will never save them
This cruel sky
This heartless rain will never soothe them
The only truth, the only truth we can be nothing
We can be nothing

Members in the chamber speechify
Regret the loss of every innocent life
We go to war for honour and for pride
Now every year is 1939

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from Pantomime of Wealth, released April 13, 2018
special guest:
Electric guitar - Ed Hogston

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Latin Quarter UK

Latin Quarter are celebrating the 40th anniverary of their 'Modern Times'-album this year. They first burst onto the scene with their singles "Radio Africa" and "New Millionaires" – songs that stayed for months in the German single charts in the 80s. The band split up in 1998. In 2011 five of the original musicians got together again. 7 new albums released after this reunion. . ... more

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