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Unicef Kingdom

by Confyde

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Welcome to our Unicef Kingdom Gleaming towers hide our starving shame Look upon our Unicef Kingdom God you know something's got to change Sliding backwards to their golden days When those who worked knew their place Destitution is the means to motivate Riot shields and tear gas A few sliced up food scraps Is all they're willing to feed Those lucrative contracts Wrapped up in Union Jacks Are falling from the tree We're taking back control of what it means to hold this flag Instead of papering it over the cracks Welcome to our Unicef Kingdom Gleaming towers hide our starving shame Look upon our Unicef Kingdom God you know something's got to change Whip up zealotry to conquer the waves The bounty beneath would be ours to take Now it lies rotting on our decks and thrown away For queen and for country Let children go hungry As we look after our own Gaslit and broken Who's our new scapegoat then? As we all sink like stones We're taking back control of what it means to hold this flag Instead of papering it over the cracks Towing line to condemn the undeserving We stand on our doorsteps and clap Confirmation bias worshipping An age reaching for bootstraps Fatherland's infallible How dare they come to feed our poor? Display all the same contempt For the desperate people on our shores Britishness won't clothe your family National pride won't heal our sick How could you claim to love something If all your reasons are cherry picked? Welcome to our Unicef Kingdom Gleaming towers hide our starving shame Look upon our Unicef Kingdom God you know that something's got to change Riot shields and tear gas A few sliced up food scraps For queen and for country Let children go hungry

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I am very excited to bring you this next stage of the Confyde journey, which I hope will not only foster comfort and catharsis in folks but actually contribute some material good to the world. Alongside this release I will be running a fundraiser through both Spotify and Bandcamp that will be going to The Trussel Trust

Why?

There are now more foodbanks than McDonalds in the UK. More than 70% of families experiencing child poverty are in work. Wages continue to stagnate against the cost of living and house prices. Charity is holding up a huge proportion of people in the 6th richest global economy. International charities like Unicef now need to intervene, indeed the UN has judged the impact of austerity policies in our country to constitute a human rights abuse.

And yet our "leaders" have to be dragged kicking and screaming to provide meagre food support for these hungry children while splurging millions upon millions of £££ on crooked contracts and nuclear weapons, while parading the Union Jack and the Royal Family in front of us as some kind of magic bullet to wave away real criticism or any notion of systemic change.

It's time to forge a new, wholesome version of patriotism. Where we actually empower ordinary people, and point our fingers not at struggling families (of all backgrounds), but at the unaccountable billionaire elites.

It's time to end the Union Jack's association with ignorant jingoism and misty-eyed fondness for an easily exploitable notion of "Britishness".

Welcome to our Unicef Kingdom. God, you know that something's got to change.

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released May 7, 2021

Martin Jackson - Vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass guitar, drum programming

Labyrinth Studios - Mixing
Mount Street Studios - Mastering

Written by Martin Jackson

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Confyde is a musical project led by singer songwriter Martin Jackson, blending a song driven melodic rock style with as many other genres as he can twist and bend to his will!

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