Work:Ethic

by The Real King(s) of Spain

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Welcome to your working coma ….

Pale-faced drones shuffling to jobs they can't stand in places that are effectively battery farms for the disaffected. A culture that pits the haves and the omitted in opposition. This is a song for all those who recognise their situation and who stand tall anyway, who create alternative ways of identifying themselves in the world.

Our work ethic expects us to be economically activity as wage slaves earning for millionaires and billionaires. Genuine personal freedom via the right to work and control over our own work is a flexibility to allow us to spend more time with our friends and families, to choose the structured activity we undertake.

Freed from the tyranny of working weeks we can maintain structure but exercise more control over our personal timetables. Or is this simply the freedom to starve?

Failure got you scratched? Only if you accept the standard definition. Let's boogie!

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Work:Ethic

Welcome to your waking coma

Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work

Welcome to your waking coma

Skiver Striver

Battery farm’s a-calling to regulate your needs
Welcome to the meaning of your century

(Spoken)
You know, promotion is just part of your extended serfdom. Ambition is merely the desire to mire the self in the quicksands of a higher subordination. Stand on tip-toes, stretch as far, as high as you humanly can and with all the effort your innate competitiveness can muster, you might just reach the top of the kerb.

Skiver Striver

Welcome to your coma, it’s only just begun
We’ve privatised your every move thy kingdom has been done

Work Work Work Work Work Work Work Work

Don’t waste your precious time on life when you
Can shine so brightly for those who walk on you

Failure’s got you scratched, let the Devil wear black

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released December 4, 2020
Written and performed by The Real King(s) of Spain
Recorded at SongSmith Studios
Mixed and produced by Oli Baldwin
Mastered by Jason at Loud!

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The Real King(s) of Spain Bristol, UK

Bristol based art-rock duo Doc Satori and QJB released their first album The Future of Mass Hysteria in 2013. Torn Lips and Guilty Souls is the live version, using musicians in place of electronica which gives it a looser, more accessible vibe. Well received at recent gigs all over the UK, they will resume playing live shows in 2016. ... more

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