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Home Rule For Awesomestow

from This Band Is Sick by Steve White & The Protest Family

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We want home rule for Awesomestow
Home rule for Awesomestow
We want places to go where the others don't know
We want home rule for Awesomestow

We love our MP, she defends our class
Makes tea and cake whenever we ask
Hates payday lenders, loves women on the money
Doesn't think Funky Lol's picket line is funny
What does she want the Labour Party to know?
She wants home rule for Awesomestow

We've got a farmers' market for our comestibles
Allotments to grow our own vegetables
A theatre pub and the gallery's exceptional
We've even got our own music festival
We've got the whole world in Orford Road
We want home rule for Awesomestow

We want home rule for Awesomestow
Home rule for Awesomestow
We want places to go where the others don't know
We want home rule for Awesomestow

We've got our own hashtag that Doug invented
Street mattresses are over-represented
We're getting our own hipster affectation
We've even got house price hyperinflation
Estate agents with hearts aglow
They want home rule for Awesomestow

We've got dogs in the pubs, we've got buggies in the pubs
We've got coffees in the pubs, we've got mummies in the pubs
We've got pizza in the pubs, we've got creches in the pubs
They're knitting in the pubs while we're sitting in the pubs
So what do we want with our nice Bordeaux?
We want home rule for Awesomestow

We want home rule for Awesomestow
Home rule for Awesomestow
We want places to go where the others don't know
We want home rule for Awesomestow

I met my new neighbour, he said 'See ya later'
'I'm not stopping long, I'm a speculator'
'I'm looking for a neighbourhood that's gone downhill'
'That I can tart up for the Stokey overspill'
The bank says 'yes' but the people say 'no'
They want home rule for Awesomestow

We want home rule for Awesomestow
Home rule for Awesomestow
We want places to go where the others don't know
We want home rule for Awesomestow

Well I don't dig middle class aspiration
And I don't dig gentrification
But it's easy to dig, and I dig William Morris
And I'm a proud member of We Are Waltham Forest
So if you turn up in numbers and tell the fash where to go
You'll get home rule for Walthamstow

We want home rule for Walthamstow
Home rule for Walthamstow
We want places to go where the others don't know
We want home rule for Walthamstow
Home rule for Walthamstow
Home rule for Walthamstow

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from This Band Is Sick, released October 13, 2014

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"[They] remind me of The Clash" - Basil Gabbidon (Steel Pulse)

"I love this band. Punk minstrels who chronicle our times with humour, passion and immense talent." - Bob Oram, Morning Star

"Everybody please visit: Steve White & The Protest Family" - Tom Robinson

"Constructive political music" - Joe Solo
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