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The Pencil People

by Division Order

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All profits from this single will be donated to Crisis.

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A song about a policy-making prat who drove to Barnard Castle in the middle of a pandemic to test his eyesight, his mates in government who closed ranks around him, and the toxic atmosphere he helped to create in the last four years in the UK.

Complete with what could be 2021's most catchy / annoying (delete as appropriate) synth riff, Division Order's latest is both a protest song and a protest about over-earnest protest songs - after all, we often need a spoonful of sarcastic sugar to help the angry medicine go down.

If you've ever imagined what it would be like if The Banana Splits were an angry synth-punk band, this may be the song you've been waiting for.

lyrics

Everybody, let's make a sound
75k below the ground
Like Samuel Pepys and his parmesan cheese
Our leader's head's buried in a fantasy

Hands, face, space, 'cause we're keeping it simple
Keeping it straight with the pencil people

Queues in Parliament and Ikea
Get in the car and drive real far
Why not do it just to test your sight?
Why not drive straight through the night?

But don't tell your boss, 'cause he's too simple
Thumbing your nose at the pencil people

Welcome to the peppermint jungle
Red, white, no room for blue
Or black - bow down to the will of the people
And do what the non-dom tells you to

Woke!
Woke!
Go for broke!

Everybody, it's party time
Why don't you just pass the buck?
Go for a walk in a bluebell wood
Or sit by the river and feed the ducks

Bet you thought you were the king of the castle
Go pack your dead cats in your box, you gaslighting dirty rascal
Here's the church, here's the steeple, fuck the pencil people
Get out!

Go on!

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released January 11, 2021
Written by Daniel Brady.

Produced by The EPI.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at the Coven of 16th & White Wells.

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Division Order Doncaster, UK

Purveyors of bricolage pop for the apocalypse from deepest, darkest South Yorkshire.

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