Listen to Transactions (feat. Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Track Dogs, Matt Clifford, Johnny Kalsi, Phil Beer, The Lost Sound Chorus, Ross Wilson & Mark Tucker) by Steve Knightley

Transactions (feat. Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Track Dogs, Matt Clifford, Johnny Kalsi, Phil Beer, The Lost Sound Chorus, Ross Wilson & Mark Tucker)

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Listen to The Winter Yards (feat. Mark Tucker, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Track Dogs, Matt Clifford, Johnny Kalsi, Phil Beer, The Lost Sound Chorus & Ross Wilson) by Steve Knightley
ALBUMThe Winter Yards (feat. Mark Tucker, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Track Dogs, Matt Clifford, Johnny Kalsi, Phil Beer, The Lost Sound Chorus & Ross Wilson)Steve Knightley

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley
Performer
Matt Clifford
Matt Clifford
Piano
Johnny Kalsi
Johnny Kalsi
Drums
Mark Tucker
Mark Tucker
Drums
Amie Ellen Parsons
Amie Ellen Parsons
Background Vocals
Chloe Parsons
Chloe Parsons
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Mark Tucker
Mark Tucker
Producer

Lyrics

We work in your factories, your kitchens, and fields
We work on the wards and the farms
For all of the lives that it cost to get here
Do you really think we mean you harm?
You should embrace us, you should be glad
Maybe we're here just in time
We could be the children you never had
If your numbers slowly decline
Facts don't have feelings, but families do
Behind the headlines are lives
Fathers and mothers
Sisters and brothers
Husbands, partners and wives
What have I done to me? Who am I now?
Where is the person I knew?
One door led to darkness, the other to light
Where am I now that I'm through?
With all of your knowledge and all of your skill
With all of the science you learned
I was just troubled, I wasn't ill
And my life wasn't yours to affirm
Facts don't have feelings, but families do
Behind these headlines are lives
Fathers and mothers
Sisters and brothers
Husbands, partners and wives
You trusted us with your parcels and gifts
We were always the heart of this town
Long hours of labouring, working in shifts
But the ghost in the code brought us down
With all of your power and all of your skill
With the might of the law to deploy
We were rebranded as felons until
There was nobody of us left
To destroy
Facts don't have feelings, but families do
Behind the headlines are lives
Fathers and mothers
Sisters and brothers
Husbands, partners, and wives
Burn all the banners, the headlines, the memes
Cast off the entrails and runes
'Cause we pay the piper, we call the shots
Why can't they dance to our tunes?
We pay the piper, we call the shots
Let's make them dance to our tunes
Written by: Steve Knightley

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