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Let Go Of The Night

from Mirrors (2017 demos) by The Urbane Decay

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The late-80's and early 90's really felt like a time of change; that the perennial mess the world is in was beginning to get truly sorted out. War and prejudice and ecological destruction might actually be on the brink of coming to an end. Then neo-liberalism swung the pendulum hard right for 25 years. I recently listened to Billy Bragg's 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forward' for the first time in over a decade and thought, "What happened to the kid who'd play this at full blast, air guitaring and fist pumping, and singing along with tears of hope in his eyes to lines like 'If you got a blacklist, I wanna be on it' and 'Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman'"? Then I remembered I'd just written this song, coincidentally in a sort of Bragg style, about a much less hopeful time. Or maybe in 1990, cynical 44-year olds saw mine and Billy Bragg's optimism as naive as it seems to me now.*

*3 years later at the time of this remix, the song feels more relevant and less naive.
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If you’re gonna get up, stand up higher
If you’re gonna lay down, get down lower
If you’re gonna crack up, break down harder
If you’re gonna get out, keep goin’ farther

If you’re gonna put up, comply completely
If you’re gonna rebel, don’t do it sweetly
If you’re gonna lie, obliterate truth
If you’re gonna grow old, abandon youth

If you’re gonna drop out, just disappear
If you’re gonna tune in, listen and hear
If you’re gonna raise hell, carry a match
If you’re gonna fight dogs, learn to scratch

If you’re gonna fight darkness, carry a light
If you’re gonna fight darkness, let go of the night

If you’re gonna get woke, know you’re asleep
If you’re gonna get down, go twice as deep
If you’re gonna go slow, stay in your lane
If you’re gonna love, savour the pain

If you’re gonna be smart, don’t play with fools
If you’re gonna fix things, carry the tools
If you’re gonna right wrongs, should you carry a gun?
If you’re gonna fight darkness, don’t block out the sun
If you’re gonna fight darkness, carry a light
If you’re gonna fight darkness, let go of the night
If you’re gonna fight darkness, let go of the night
let go of the night

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from Mirrors (2017 demos), released October 30, 2017

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The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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