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Strand to Strand (feat. Berta Azevedo)

from Fragments of a Living City by MY NOISY TWINS

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Strand to Strand (Adapted from "Lines" by Frances Hellen Watkin)

Don´t give it room, don't oh no

At the Portals of the Future,
Full of madness, guilt and gloom,
Stood the hateful form of Slavery,
Crying, Give, Oh! give me room
Room to smite the earth with cursing,
Room to scatter, rend and slay,
From the trembling mother’s bosom
Room to tear her child away;
Room to trample on the manhood
Of the country far and wide;
Room to spread o’er every Eden
Slavery’s scorching lava-tide.

Shall the wings of darkness
Brood and hover o’er our land,

At the Portals of the Future,
Full of madness, guilt and gloom,
Stood the hateful form of Slavery,
Crying, Give, Oh! give me room
In his hand he held a banner
All festooned with blood and tears:
‘Twas a fearful ensign, woven
With the grief and wrong of years.
On his brow he wore a helmet
Decked with strange and cruel art;
Every jewel was a life-drop
Wrung from some poor broken heart.

And from many a throbbing bosom
Came the words in fear and gloom,
Tell us, Oh! thou coming Crisis,
What shall be our country’s doom?
Shall the wings of dark destruction
Brood and hover o’er our land,
Till we trace the steps of ruin
By their blight, from strand to strand?

Shall the wings of darkness
Brood and hover o’er our land

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from Fragments of a Living City, released December 9, 2019

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MY NOISY TWINS is a portuguese electronic music producer, sound designer and musician, also known as Jorge Cunha Machado.

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