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Limited Edition black vinyl version of our new album. Mastered by Grammy Award winning Lewis Hopkin. Colour sleeve and label. Designed by David Cuesta of Creative R&D. Limited to 300 copies.
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PLUS Limited Edition 40 page book with all lyrics from Boat Building album and introduction by Chris Redmond. Signed with personal message from Chris Redmond.
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Limited edition 50 page book with all lyrics from Boat Building album and introduction by Chris Redmond. Signed with personal message from Chris Redmond. Design and artwork by David Cuesta.
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lyrics
K.O.G: Time!
A time is coming now
A time is coming now
Better days across the river
Scars and wounds,
black n blue.
Screaming from the worries
I don’t choose.
In the headlines,
on the news.
I’m a profile
to defuse.
My survival,
is no use.
I’m just a commodity
in their view.
You know the reality,
you know the truth,
a phantom enemy
they will assume.
Chains on hands,
chains on minds.
Suppressed, oppressed,
institutionalised.
Elements colide,
it’s borderline.
Young ones were taken
from mothers and tribes.
Lost identity,
warped reality,
mirages and fables,
deadly voyages.
The souls of men
judged by colour.
I’m here to tell you
there’s hope in the future.
Chorus
Dizareli: My old man said a better time is coming
K.O.G: A time is coming! / Bei ko baa ba
Dizareli: My old man said a better time is coming
K.O.G: A time is coming! / Bei ko baa ba
Dizraeli: By a muddy river,
in a murky town,
I sit in sirens,
seabirds circle round.
I see a gull upon the rooftop without wings,
I watch it edging to the edge in mad winds,
it’s a mirror for within,
in a new chapter,
in a whipping storm,
a cyclone of food wrappers,
a kid is born.
Nah it’s a trace of green,
nah it’s a taste of something strange & sweet.
It doesn’t heal but it makes some peace,
puts a smile on the face of freaks
and it releases from the closet those afraid to breathe
and now we’re wading in an army up against the stream,
‘cos we have seen that there is insufficient day to dream.
One minute Sonny’s deep up in the make-believe,
next minute Mummy’s kneeling at his grave to grieve.
Too cruel.
We are cruel and we’re angels.
We kill life and give life with a movement of the arms,
chase dragons in the crucible of Saint Paul’s,
topple statues in a revolutionary march,
by the Muddy river,
then we chuck him in.
My kids’ll not grow up looking up at him.
My kids’ll not grow up in the ways I did,
watching white mates morphing into racist pricks,
never never,
the muddy river raising up.
I raise a rhythm and a bass-line in praise of us,
I raise my kids in a toast to the courageous ones,
who kill the devil with a hundred million paper cuts,
singing a change’ll come.
In the course of all this craziness
I see my mates parade like they were made for this.
And they grew up facing shit that I never faced.
They’re still turning up the temperature for better days,
still turning up and tracing out the blueprints
for new ways and new architecture,
new movements
for new stages.
And you could celebrate the dawn
instead of panicking and Sellotaping doors shut,
instead of gazing gormless
at the gold framed stories of the (slave-made) empire
that decorate your walls.
Look.
We celebrate the dawn,
we break them ornaments,
we work making structures that we never made before.
I see my children standing with us at this river
so I’ll work until the water comes and elevates us all.
Chorus
Dizareli: My old man said a better time is coming
K.O.G: A time is coming! / Bei ko baa ba
Dizareli: My old man said a better time is coming
K.O.G: A time is coming! / Bei ko baa ba
credits
from Boat Building,
released November 27, 2020
Words - Dizraeli, Kweku Sackey
Music by Riaan Vosloo, Arthur Lea, Patrick Davey, Dizraeli, Kweku Sackey, Chris Redmond
For over a decade Tongue Fu have built a cult following at their live shows where people expect the unexpected. Writer,
musician and founder, Chris Redmond, invites poets, comedians, storytellers and rappers to take risks, re-working material live with improvised soundtracks from fleet footed, genre-crunching musicians.
Previous collaborators include Kate Tempest, Soweto Kinch and Akala....more
An old friend of ours and a truly inspiring writer, performer and human. Kae could make a poem that changed your life out of the contents of your bins. Tongue Fu
