Dark Before The Dawn

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All the proceeds go to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust:
www.stephenlawrence.org.uk

Taken from the upcoming album, Hope Rituals, out August 2020 on Venn Records.

Video designed and put together by Luke Moss: www.lukemoss.co.uk

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Together let’s work out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again
If you’re reading this then it’s not too late
If you’re not okay then it’s not the end
Because everything will be okay in the end
We’re gonna go down singing, all the men and women and those non-binary and in-between
My name’s Jak and my pronouns are him and he
Let’s exercise our empathy and end the prejudice that we feel
Because I’m pretty sure it’s easy to be compassionate to people like me

It's dark before the dawn

Let’s talk about optimism because ideas and dreams they can actually change things
All great movements in history were not led by a pessimist
This means that the future belongs to those who think it’s possible to live in a world where we pride ourselves on the way we treat those in need with no food to eat
Whereas those who worship greed will be consigned to history
You can’t kill an ideology so let’s write our own to set us free

It's dark before the dawn

Be proud of how far we’ve come while fighting for a better tomorrow
You can’t blame those that follow, man
We all do it in different ways on different days
Football teams, political allegiance, the clothes that we wear, science, religion
Whether you’re goth or a toff on a gap year or a lap dancer having a bad year
We are all one with the earth and the animals

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released June 12, 2020

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WACO London, UK

JAK HUTCHCRAFT
TOMMY PALLOT
WELSHY
JAMES ROBINSON
IAN CROOK

CHRIS COWLEY (RIP)

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