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Recorded in BBC Maida Vale Studio 4 for John Peel
Produced by Miti Adhikari
First broadcast on BBC Radio One 27th June 2001

Written by Baldwin/Gish/Quigley/Smith

Seymour Quigley – vocals
Mike Smith – bass
Neil Baldwin – drums
Gish – guitar

Studio version available on:
Talk Hard EP (Integrity Records 2002)
God Bless Miss Black America LP (Integrity Records, 2002)

All profits from this compilation will be donated to Gatehouse Food Bank in Bury St Edmunds. To find out more and donate directly, please visit their website:
www.gatehouse.org.uk

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TALK HARD
I am not washed-up
I should believe I am but I do not
I still read all their ungraded hatemail
Fourteen long years of school
And all I learned was to fail

But I am not proud
To rot with that crowd
‘Cause I am stronger

I was born in a force ten gale
It takes more than hot air to blow the wind out of my sails
And my eyesight’s poor
But I am the future
Hear me roar

And get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel

“Toilet-trained and dumb”
When we first talk we learn by rote,
“We are scum
“We come from nothing? That’s what we deserve”
Classrooms crowded with robots
We are Goebbels’ children

But we’re not down yet
Don’t let them forget
That we are stronger

You were born
‘Til the day you die, you are alive
While you’ve got the time
At least try to justify yourself
The buck stops with you and no-one else

So get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel.

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from Smile, You​’​re On Fire: BBC Sessions 2001​-​2002, released May 1, 2020
Recorded in BBC Maida Vale Studio 4 for John Peel
Produced by Miti Adhikari
First broadcast on BBC Radio One 27th June 2001

Written by Baldwin/Gish/Quigley/Smith

Seymour Quigley – vocals
Mike Smith – bass
Neil Baldwin – drums
Gish – guitar

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