Black Union Jack

from Scary Stories To Tell When You're Dark EP by Half/Time

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Paint me a flag with a black union jack
I’ll wear it around like a shirt on my back
A ribbon of white through the red and the black
A symbol of all of the things that you lack

Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs
They came here to play and they won’t go away

It’s in the way that they cheer
The way that they cheer when they know they are right
Saying “you’re one of the good ones
But you still ain’t white”

Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs
To cave in the skulls of all those who oppose
Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs
They came here to play now they won’t go away

Paint me a flag with a black union jack
I’ll wear it around like a shirt on my back
A ribbon of white through the red and the black
A symbol of all of the things that you lack

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from Scary Stories To Tell When You're Dark EP, released April 28, 2023
Words and noise: Wairehu Grant

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Half/Time Hamilton, New Zealand

Half/Time began as a te ao Māori centred post-punk solo project during the cosmic hellscape
that was 2020. In early 2023 it evolved into a three-piece band featuring Wairehu Grant (Ngāti Maniapoto) on guitar, Ciara Bernstein on drums and Cee (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa) on bass. ... more

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