Gold Lift

Gold Lift the single was released on 31 March 2017 on Sonny Boy Records, this video for the single was made by the amazing Mark James.

When I wrote the track, I was thinking about the concepts of perception, distraction and fundamentalism. Fundamentalists use perception in an attempt to distract us from reality. The far right, the hard left, extremists of all stripes, are vying for our attention, hawking their chaos. There are billions dispossessed, uncared for and unloved. They need love and support, but are given demagogues, false idols, wolves grinning from golden walls.

It got me thinking about a William Blake verse: ‘The hand of Vengeance found the Bed/To which the Purple Tyrant fled/The iron hand crushd the Tyrants head/And became a Tyrant in his stead.’ And it got me thinking about a Bob Dylan verse: ‘Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.’

Hitler’s bass player, Joseph Goebbels, also had some prescient lyrics: ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.’

Enjoy the vid!