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Hellbound Train

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In April 2011, Gazza was in France for the Paris marathon. After enduring a horrendous journey across Paris on overcrowded and stifling Metro trains to a hotel near the Gare de l'Est, Gazza took a welcome swift cold beer in the hotel bar. CNN news was showing on the flat screens around the bar and story after story, told tales of doom, gloom and woe. With the Metro journey fresh in mind, lyrics of began to flow freely from pen to paper and before the glass had been drained of beer, "Hell-bound Train" was written and e-mailed to Noor back in the U.K.

The song is not meant to have apocalyptic overtones, but as things developed throughout 2011; riots in England, deadly earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, famine in Somalia and the financial crisis across Europe, "Hell-bound Train" soon turned out to be a song of the second decade of the 21st Century..

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Hellbound Train

Forty thousand ran the marathon,
And I’ve just done the same.
I’m melting in the Metro,
I’m waiting for the train.
There are so many people around me,
I’m feel that I’m caged in.
Will these wheels ever start rolling?
Will this journey ever begin?
Some say that we’re safe underground,
But I know we’re riding on a hell-bound train.

Politicians can see the future,
Or that is what they say!
But the ordinary man in the street,
He has to pay their way.
Money’s tight even if you have a job,
And the boss is always right
Some say the tide is turning,
Some say there’s going to be a fight!
Some say we’re riding a hand-cart,
But I know we’re riding on a hell-bound train.

Earth Mother’s on the back-foot,
She’s given all she’s got.
We take and we take from underground,
Are we ever going to stop?
The oil wells; they have run dry,
And the forests have been lost.
And the hungry mouths need feeding
We’re going to pay the cost.
Some say that this is our brave new world,
But I know we’re all riding on a hell-bound train.
On a hell-bound train!

Yeah, we’re all travelling together
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, on a hell-bound train.
On a hell-bound train.

© New Tradition Music.

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from NOTHING TO DECLARE, track released February 29, 2012
Gazza Tee: Vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica.
Noor Ali: Electric guitars, bass guitar and percussion.
Leslie Wilson: Vocals.

Written by N Ali & G Tolley
© New Tradition Music.

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Stompin' on Spiders is a musical collective formed at a Blues festival in April 2009. The band's stripped-back acoustic Blues/Rock style is individual as it is unique, blending the traditional ethos of Blues music with a very modern edge. A "new tradition" is how one music journalist described Stompin' on Spiders; "a radical mix of stripped-back blues and roots inspired by international events". ... more

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