Victims

by The Affirmative

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Victims

Your friends and your neighbours
Mocking your labours
But they’re only victims
And you are their saviour
Unscrupulous changer
Alert to the danger
But his answers are easy
Where the truth is a stranger

Like a junkie’s promise
Like a Judas kiss
Like a traitor’s conscience
Like a zealot’s bliss

Dreams torn asunder
Hope blinded by wonder
Parading scant riches
And dazzled by plunder
So easily flattered
‘cos nothing else mattered
Flaunting their pennies
As their ashes are scattered

Like a junkie’s promise
Like a Judas kiss
Like a traitor’s conscience
Like a zealot’s bliss

Their hearts are all broken
Fears all unspoken
Begging your favour
And bearing your token

However they curse you
They never will hurt you
And no crooked anger
Can challenge your virtue

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released February 13, 2022
Words: Topping
Music: Shaw and Topping

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The Affirmative Plymouth, UK

The Affirmative are an eclectic guitar driven band from Plymouth, fusing indie with Americana, to produce a Splendid debut album of songs ranging from the lyrically and musically complex, to quirky reminiscences about lost love and wasted summer days.

Their music is shaped by everything from the American South to the English South-West and many well-worn highways and byways between and beyond.
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