WHAT SONG IS IT?

The new recorded version of Sour Times, with strings....which you can download here (this is the song with lyrics written out as I say them - it's a video file)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0fl2o2

Record yourself saying these lyrics along with the track, looking at the camera

Upload your footage onto a website like YOUSENDIT, or SENDSPACE, and email the link to sourtimesvideo@gmail.com

We will edit together all of your footage to make the video.

IF YOU SEND FOOTAGE WE WILL USE IT, PROMISE

--- WHY?

The message of this song has to be something that relates to everyone, regarldess of background, religion, gender, or age. If you support the sentiment of this track please help push this message in a way that means we all have ownership of it.

We will also have special guests saying the words alongside you guys, in the video.



Thanks in advance

Riz

p.s. PASS THIS ON please?

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LYRICS

CHORUS
In these sour times please allow me to vouch for mine
Bitter taste in my mouth
Spit it out with a rhyme
I'm losing my religion to tomorrow's headlines
Forrest gate
Sorry mate?
Na, nothing, it's fine

VERSE 1
And now its post seven seven why we callin it that?
They Tryina link it to new york like we all under attack
from the same big baddie but its takin the piss
cos the truth is al qaeda doesn't even exist


There aint no supervillain planning these attacks from some base
the truth is so much scarier and harder to face
See there's thousands of angry young men that are lost
Sidelined in the economy a marginal cost
That feel theres no point in putting ballots up in the box
Got no place in this system and no faith in its cogs
& theyre easy targets to be getting brainwashed by these knobs
Who say that spillin innocent blood is pleasing a god
Sounds good when you don't see no justice or jobs
Gas bills are piling up when all the oils getting robbed..?
So david's taking out goliath and his wife and his dog
Segregated castrated now we'll see who's on top


So see it aint religious faith that's causin these crimes
Its losing faith in democratic freemarket designs
Its no coincidence the bombers came from ghettoes up north
And the way that bush and blair talk gives a lost boy a cause
Then double standards get us angered both at home and abroad
Theres a monopoly on pens that's why they forge their own swords
The misguided turn violent strap themselves up with bombs
But theyre still cowards cos they aint here when the backlash is on


CHORUS
In these sour times please allow me to vouch for mine
Bitter taste in my mouth
Spit it out with a rhyme
I'm losing my religion to tomorrow's headlines
guantanamo
sorry bro? Na, nothing, it's fine

VERSE 2
So all the mans that wanna say
That my religions gotta change
That we're stuck in a bygone age
Its time to set the vinyl straight
Don't you think its kinda strange
That all this terror outrage
These last gasp castaways
These bastards that'll blast away
just turned up in the last decade?
When Islam has been the way
For millions from back in the day
Instead of thinking that were crazed
Investigate just what it says
Fast, help the poor and, pray
Go mecca, be steadfast in faith
That's the basics that's the base
So how did we get here today?

Interpretations always change
Today they're red with rage
Been jihardened up
desperations kinda fucked
makes you use a book of peace
as weapons in a ruck

so listen…
terrorism isn't caused by religion
or an old school vision of Islam
it's against the Quran
and it's a new innovation
caused by mashup situations
that makes them turn to arms
the problem is modern
And its all local factors
Dictatorships injustices and
Wars cause fatwas


CHORUS
So in these sour times please allow me to vouch for mine
Bitter taste in my mouth
[SPIT] with a rhyme
I'm losing my religion to tomorrow's headlines
abu ghraib
sorry, mate!
Na, nothing, it's fine