Name: Gold
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Description: What is the real cost of that gold around your neck and in your teeth?

Gold

from You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tracks by Synister Recordings

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What is the real cost of that gold around your neck and in your teeth?

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GOLD

There's a plague
Called the Midas touch
Yellow ore so cold
It burns you to the touch
A cause of misery
Through our herstory
It's true value
Written in blood

Ahh What's it worth
An what's it cost
Would its value have risen
If more lives had been lost
Ahh tell me just who really paid
To put those rings upon your fingers
An' for the bars that sit in banks
While the thieves try an' tell us
To the lord we must give thanks

There are many graves
That line the yellow brick road
Sad tales of murder
People bought and sold
African and indian
Slain by Europeans
Their civilisations
Buried in dust

Ahh What's it worth
An what's it cost
Would its value have risen
If more lives had been lost
Ahh tell me who just really paid
To put that jewellery in your jawbone
An' the bars that pay for tanks
While the third world dies in poverty
In debt to first world banks

There's only chains
For those who work the load
Land stolen by strangers
An' the company owns their bones
Afican and Indian
Downpressed by Europeans
While greedy invaders
Burn ancestral homes

Ahh What's it worth
An what's it cost
Would its value have risen
If more lives had been lost
Ahh now do you really see who paid
To put that bracelet 'round your ankle
That chain around your neck
My stories told, your soul is sold
AND YOUR STILL A SLAVE TO GOLD

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from You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tracks, released April 26, 2016

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Synister Recordings London, UK

The home of all releases related to Dead Dog Mountain and the DigiDogz.

DigiDogz were the most recent incarnation of Dead Dog Mountain. They also operate under the guise of FunkDogz, DogDubz,
Motherboard Connection and the Edd Synister Quartet.

They are a collective of musicians that hail from the far East End of London and have been creating music together since 1989. ... more