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Got a report from the marketing department and frankly I think they may have been huffing paint thinner or got their Comma's in the wrong spot but nope.

I looked, checked and had Theo and E. check and the numbers are the numbers.

For reasons as yet unknown to me, Don't Take It So Hard has been featured in some popular TikTok'ers page and has received... 96,670,000 views. That's 96 with a Million after it.

No wonder our Youtube Views are climbing.

Well that's a turn up for the books.

Well enough time has passed for things to make sense again and...I think i'm close.

I put the stuff I couldnt connect to back in the greenhouse and now according to my recent review, I am 3 parts away from finishing.

Let's see what happens tomorrow.

I read the news today, oh boy
the last rattling screeds
thinner than a gadget catalogue
their headline was ‘where’s the justice’
‘condemn the villain’
And for all these years
They all knew and said nothing.
Knew and did nothing
Knew and watched it continue.

Who gets to tell the story
when the mouth that opens
speaks with the voice of
money and power and the rest is chosen
silence.

Death doesn’t move them
Harm doesn’t move them
Pity does not persuade
Mercy does not illuminate
And the bystanders cash their paycheck
Serve the oppressor in silence
For benefit
For advantage

In that replacement silence
Not an accusation
A framing of the victims
For surely they deserved it
Otherwise we would have spoken up?
Surely? Surely? Us people of good conscience?

We have known and we said nothing.
We have known, and we did
Nothing.

And what replaced our action?
More of the same.
The river overflowed its banks
and we watched as it swept a town
called Decency away.
A torrent of cash,
our ‘usefulness’ to a king.
And we are viler than a jester
not even fit for the stocks
Or public confrontation

 We’ll wait until the dead pile up
Or the king loses his crown
And there underneath it we will claim to find our
Courage
Instead, this weak mocking thing
This wretched, mute object that relinquished
The very human nature of choice.

I set a deadline for September to finish Basilisk tracking.

Chuck in a couple of weeks for messing about and voila.

Los Last Words Famoso.

So how'd that go exactly? Well...

In the famous words of MC Coggers, 'you're not short of a song'. 

So instead of pushing to finish the album we dropped Replacement Heroes as a single which is fine cos that sort of came out of the blue anyway.

Between the CRAB and a few other things I have been OK to let time roll on without my interference :) A well earned rest from listening to the mix :)

We'll see what the following week brings, but I for one am ready to move on to new material.