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Kings Of Industry

from embers by Joe Tilston

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A few years ago, a mill burnt down a mile from my house, in Haworth. The next morning I visited the pile of smouldering ashes and embers and a man turned to me and told me how his very existence was because of the building that had stood so proud, only a matter of hours before. He told me how his family had emigrated to work at the mill as had many others in Haworth where here for the same reason.

This was not the only one I had witnessed burning down, and there is huge speculation as to the true reason so many of these these building had fallen in recent years. It was with this speculation and sadness I was inspired to write this song.

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Another mill burns
and leaves an empty shell
Generations of migration
left as stories to tell

Beacons of hope
fade while walls fall down
Untold strain
placed on a small town

The Kings of industry are we
we'll burn our future
with the past

The Kings of Industry are we
We’ll burn our future
we will not last

Our fathers and mothers
came from afar
now nothing left to show you
who they really are

our sisters and brother
will travel far
never sure
who we really are

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from embers, released February 25, 2013
Joe Tilston - Vocals/Guitar/Electric/Bowed Cymbal

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Joe has a punk heart, but his music has a different heartbeat. It's Folkish, it’s beautiful, and at times cutting and direct.
The music takes influence from a childhood brought up in smokey, beer swilled folk clubs. "Tightrope” still bears the mark of teenage rebellion, that has taken Joe through the world's punk and ska scenes. It's full of songs of Death & Hope, and is unashamed to bare all. ... more

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