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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

created by Alexi Garcia - AlxCia ®2019

All lyrics by Bloc Party. Photography by Ness Sherry, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Perry Curties, Yuki Shingai, Phil Armson. Illustrations by Linsey Tulley, Gordon Moakes. Web design based on art direction by: Rob Crane at Work (2007-2008),

Bloc Party & Gordon Moakes (2012-2013), Big Active & Kele Okereke (2016). DISCLAIMER: this website was created for informational purposes only and is not being monetised. All content and design was inspired by and taken from the art direction of albums, singles and EP's by Bloc Party. 

Bloc Party are Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Matt Tong, Gordon Moakes, Louise Bartle, Justin Harris

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