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i stare down from my tower block/watching death and destruction/the protest movement was an absolute failure/and im watching london burn like in the time of boudicia/but the city of london has burned since then/the great fire started it, the blitz just continued it/looting through the streets so they could be built up again/raising tower block estates that no one can escape from/and patches of green, lying through the middlethe sun comes out, and shines through the city/battles are staged on those open common grounds/and the guns come up at sunset to incite another battle/it makes you wonder what happened to the people/the english up and left cos theyre the ones who can afford to/bangladeshis had to stay, theyre just holed up in their ghettowith clapham in the suburbs burning as the fire spread/moving down through brixton, on its way to streatham/looting everything and leaving hammersmith behind/and burning every single suit on the waterloo and city line/but did nobody stop to think and calculate the time the olympic torch would take to burn out?/lighting up the streets on its way to stratford it made a fucking crater of what used to be deptford/and in its wake we saw old shopping trollies in every dried up river/the townsfolk stopped and stared at the tesco burning horror/theyre screaming 'where do we get our vegetables from cos its the only place we know'/'oh mate, you dont understand, you know it was like our second home!'/i saw a girl, she was telling me to run far/cos if the hood police catch me, i'm pretty much done for/i nestled my head back, pulled my hood up tighter/'if they want me, come and get me' is what i called out to her/and at a certain point, the people had stop and rectify the situation/'every looter in handcuffs' is the general idea/so to avoid repeating history/and the razing of our city/we all marched into the sunset/holding hands and our petitions

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from Four​/​Five​/​Six on a Plastic Disc, released September 2, 2012

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Bandit The Panther London, UK

Bandit The Panther are a DIY lo-fi punk group based in London. They write folk, punk and reggae infused tunes about London, being in a band, and having no money (due to both). Bandit has toured the UK several times and their latest album 'I Have This Town' is out on Aaahh! Real Records. ... more

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