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Persons Unknown

by Poison Girls

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🏴‍☠️ Mikey T. Chas The Dog And Momo The Cat 🏴‍☠️
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🏴‍☠️ Mikey T. Chas The Dog And Momo The Cat 🏴‍☠️ This song along with Bloody Revolutions had a massive impact on me back in 1980 when I bought this on the 7 inch vinyl version.

And as is obvious to all but the blind is still sadly as relevant as ever.

40+ years have passed since then and the world is still stuck on the path of self destruction.

We as a planet will never be able to say what a bloodless history we had but maybe one day we can say "we made it" 🤔 Favorite track: Persons Unknown.
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southwalesgriff One of my all-time favourite bands.
Possibly their most important track. Unique Favorite track: Persons Unknown.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Poison Girls’ legendary, brooding call to action for the radical and dispossessed gets a deluxe vinyl edition via All The Madmen Records, backed with the sublime orchestral version of “Statement”. In full collaboration with Poison Girls, coordinated by Pete Fender with artwork design and layout by Bernhardt Rebours.

    Now on 12” vinyl in their full duration of over 7 minutes and 5 minutes respectively, both tracks are given space to breathe and be heard in their best vinyl form. The 180g heavyweight vinyl presents as a more deluxe, durable medium and a two-sided insert details the background, lyrics and ongoing relevance of the songs.

    An enclosed A2 sized (42.0 x 59.4cm) , folded poster graphically reproduces the forty eight 1-inch button/pin badges that Poison Girls produced and distributed in 1980 to promote and reinforce the Persons Unknown declaration.

    The badges have been carefully recreated and are available separately in hand-pressed sets, via All The Madmen Records.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Persons Unknown via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
This is a message to Persons unknown Persons in hiding, Persons unknown Survival in silence, isn't good enough no more Keeping your mouth shut, head in the sand Terrorists and saboteurs, each and every one of us Hiding in shadows, Persons unknown Hey there Mr. Average, you don't exist you never did Hiding in shadows, Persons unknown Habits of hiding soon will be the death of us Dying in secret from poisons unknown This is a message to Persons unknown Strangers and passers-by, Persons unknown Turning a blind eye, hope to go unrecognized Keeping your secrets, Persons unknown Housewives and prostitutes, plumbers in boiler suits Truants in coffee bars, who think you're alone Big men on building sites, sick men in dressing gowns Agents in motor cars who never go home Women in factories, one parent families Women in purdah, Persons unknown Wild girls and criminals, rotting in prison cells Patients in corridors, Persons unknown Statistics on balance sheets, numbered and rubber stamped Blind and invisible, you're lost in your homes Liggers and layabouts, lovers on roundabouts Wake up in the morning with Persons unknown Accountants in nylon shirts, feminists in floral skirts Nurses for when it hurts, Persons unknown Astronauts and celibates, deejays and hypocrites Liars and lunatics, Persons unknown Hopefuls on football pools, teachers in empty schools Kids into heroin not yet full grown Typists and usherettes, black men who can't forget The lonely who long for Persons unknown Closet idealists, bald headed realists Rastas and bikers, the voice on the phone Pimps and economists, royalty and communists Rioters and pacifists, Persons unknown Visionaries with colored hair, leather boys who just don't care Garter girls with time to spare, Persons unknown Judges with prejudice, dissidents and anarchists Policemen deal dirty tricks to Persons unknown Strikers and pickets, collectors of tickets Radical architects, the queen on her throne Soldiers in uniform, sailors and stevedores Beggars and bankers, Persons unknown Football crowd hooligans, bunking off school again Workers down tools again, United's at home Smokers with heart disease, cleaners of lavatories The old with their memories, Persons unknown Flesh and blood is who we are Flesh and blood are what we are Flesh and blood is who we are Our cover is blown
2.
I denounce the system that murders my children I denounce the system that denies my existence I curse the system that makes machines of my children I reject the system that makes men of machines I reject the system that turns bodies of my own sweet flesh Into monsters of iron and steel and war And turns the hands of my children into robot claws I reject the system that turns the hearts of my children Against this earth I curse the system that turns the genitals of my children Into factories of fire and destruction And rapes our flesh And tears our womb This earth our home. There are no words For us no words There are no words When the fireball rapes the flesh of the earth When the fireball tears the womb of the world When the bullet rips apart the son and the lover Lays to waste the wombwork and the labour Where are they that will cherish my flesh Where are they that will cherish my children The men that will stand against the deathdealers The children who can say no to the lifestealers Where are they that will curse the deathdealers I denounce the system There are no words For us no words There are no words Rooted in pain they sell their own flesh Rooted in pain they do anything for money They deal in death with minds that feed on hate In fear of life they kill without pity In fear of love they wound and they rape In fear of love they rape without pity Where are they that will cherish my flesh Where are they that will cherish my children The men that will stand against the deathdealers I denounce the system There are no words For us no word There are no words Only a curse leaps from my throat Only a curse leaps like blood from my throat To curse the warlords that lay to waste our labour That lay to waste the wombwork and the labour That lay to waste the wombwork and the labour That lays to waste That lays to waste waste... waste... waste... waste... waste

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Official remastered re-release of Poison Girls’ legendary call to action for the radical and dispossessed.

Track 1 - Originally released 1980 on CRASS Records.

Track 2 - Originally released 1982 on Pax Records

In full collaboration with Poison Girls, coordinated and remastered by Pete Fender.

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released December 2, 2020

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