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Silent Alarm by Bloc Party

Recorded: 2006
Label: Wichita
Songwriter(s): Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, Kele Okereke, Matt Tong
Producer: Jacknife Lee

HUNTING FOR WITCHES

I was sitting on the roof of my house 
With a shotgun
And a six-pack of beer
Six-pack of beer
Six-pack of beer

The newscaster says:
"The enemy's among us"
As bombs explode on the 30 bus
Kill your middle-class indecision
Now is not the time for liberal thought

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for

(In the) nineties
Optimistic as a teen
Now it's terror
Airplanes crash into towers

Into towers, crash into towers

The Daily Mail says:
"The enemy is among us"
"Taking our women and taking our jobs"
All reasonable thought is being drowned out
By the non-stop baying, baying
Baying for blood

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for...

I was an ordinary man, with ordinary desire
I watched TV, it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
There must be accountability
Disparate and misinformed
Fear keeps us all in place

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for

I was an ordinary man, with ordinary desire
I watched TV, it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
There must be accountability
Disparate and misinformed
Fear keeps us all in place

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