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This is Now is the 2nd track from the album Holy Land, the 61st album of 10 original songs written, produced and with all lyrics and vocals by Paul Robert Thomas
It is a song about rising anti-semitism in England today
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“This is Now” is a powerful track warning that rising anti-Semitism and social unrest in England mirror the dark prelude to 1939. Criticizing public apathy and political cowardice, the track captures a deeply fractured nation filled with fear, betrayal, and a desperate plea for national pride”.
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You can watch This is Now as a video virtualizer on YouTube HERE
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You can watch all 10 songs from Holy Land as video virtualizers on YouTube HERE
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This is Now lyrics
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
Hate has no acceptable reasonable level
When you are weak and won’t confront the devil
They’re smashing our windows and burning our cars
Taking over our neighbourhoods that once were ours
Influencing the media with half truths and lies
Infiltrating our universities before our very eyes
And apathy seems to be the order of the day
As you stand by and watch our people betrayed
When you let the devil in through the door
Things can never be like they were before
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
You say ‘Justice for all’ as you let them in
As they rape your children, but to mention it is a sin
You don’t want to upset the future majority
Bowing down to them is your main priority
Oh how you have fallen from your throne
It’s hard to recognise this land as my home
Where is your backbone, where is your national pride
Do you have anything but emptiness left inside
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
I’m packing and am getting ready to go
Coz soon this place is gonna explode
Someone must soon rise and take a stand
Someone with pride in their now abandoned land
Wars were fought and people were lost
Sacrifices were made at great human cost
But it’s all been given away, what is there left
A nation’s people living in distress
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
This is now, and not nineteen thirty nine
Hatred just grows one day at a time
Hatred just grows one day at a time
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Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode: 116909ND * ISWC: T-344.300.446-0
Audiosparx Catalogue ID: 1463946 * ISRC * US5UL2692296
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