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The album version of State of the Union was originally a demo recording. I mixed it myself at home with some very primitive gear and no experience whatsoever in mixing music for worldwide release. So I gave it a shot and the resulting track was decent enough. It had a strange charm that seemed to connect with people.
Many years later, my friend and mix engineer to the stars, James Brown offered to go back to the original session and mix it properly.
So this isn't a remix in the sense that it's been radically re-invented. It's the same arrangement as the one I released in 2005 but has been allowed to realise its sonic potential in the hands of an expert.
James has mixed the vast majority of my recordings since 2007. Whenever I send him tracks to mix, I will have already mixed my own version that sounds to my ear like there's nothing anybody could possibly change to make it better. James then sends back a song that sounds 100 times better than mine and I have no clue how he does it.
Some people are just good at stuff. And I find that very comforting.
lyrics
Sweet dreams all met with derision
This train, it was armed for collision
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
Clap your hands in the sparkle and glitter
Shake your heads at the twisted and bitter
Oh they don't know how lucky they are
Foot down for the alienation
Look on as your love, its gets lost in translation
To a language that nobody understands
There are smiles as they erode and corrupt you
Of the great expectations you could never live up to
We are lost, we are lost, we are lost
Get you coat, 'cause the righteous are leaving
Cause they can't work out what the hell to believe in
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
No abandon, no heartfelt desire
No love could be worth getting fired
For real, it's surreal, it's so real
So paint over the cracks and then cover
What you thought was the worst ever pain with another
And the first one, it always comes free
How they love you so cold and so vicious
With friends like these, well who needs politicians
The first one, its always comes free
They tell you heroin takes like ice cream
Clever men know all that and all this
And they will talk and they talk and the don't fucking listen
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
It's no life but God, it's a living
Come on Jesus Christ, come back all is forgiven
We are lost, we are lost, we are lost
Have no fear of the state of the nation
Let the facts have no bearing on public relations
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
What a model of Christian behaviour
Preach on with the message of "go fuck thy neighbour"
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
It's a shame, it's a shame
Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics
While they kill in the name of applied mathematics
Hate the system even though you invented it
Go kill your brothers and claim self defence of it
Picking up all the secrets and tricks to be
One of the guys whom the shit never sticks to
Take you seats for the final calamity
Don't you look serious, hell, what can the matter be?
Another day and the rot's getting faster
And all the machines started killing the master
It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame
It's a shame, it's a shame
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