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This song was slightly out of character for me and I must have been near the end of my tether when I wrote it. Anyway, the lyrics got everybody's attention and it actually got a rhythm section to rehearse with us when the drummer heard the line: "fuck the neighbours, fuck the law, fuck your god and what it stands for". The drummer was Clifford and the bass player was Ian Hawkins. They didn't join the band in the end but Ian Hawkins played drums for us a few times with Nige on bass. Here's a video of one of those times when we played in the centre of Leeds one summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPwMakzp2s

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Did you ever feel you couldn’t accept other people's opinions about the way you should think or feel?
Did you ever feel you couldn’t accept the way they put you down and tried to make you into something you didn't want to be?
Did you?

Did you ever feel you couldn’t accept the way they made you look into a mirror and see their own smug faces instead of your own?
And you couldn't accept that.
And just once you wanted to find out who you really were and what you really thought.

Did you ever feel that?
Did you ever want that?
Did you ever want to be accepted?

It's not for me to say to you what you should or should not do
but if you feel you need to hear it said, permissions granted go ahead
then fuck the neighbours, fuck the law, fuck your God and what it stands for
you don’t need to dream or fantasize you can do once you want - nothing’s denied
Time has come to lose control to kill the mind and free the soul
We're gonna cross the line that keeps us quiet, destroy the fences start a riot
so fuck the neighbours fuck the law fuck your God and what it stands for you don’t need to dream or fantasize you can do once you want -nothing’s denied

you're just waiting for permission
you're just waiting for permission
you're just waiting for permission for permission
is granted

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from Damn! Damn! Damn!, released January 1, 1994

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Gentle Ihor's Devotion Leeds, UK

Formed in the 1980s. Their 12 inch single 'Naked' was single of the week in Melody Maker. Signed to TUG REC in Germany. Lead singer Gentle Ihor is solo now collaborating with various musicians.

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