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Hell And High Water

from Ashes For The Monarch by Glacier

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Hell And High Water has a strange link to the Ridley Scott film ‘Bladerunner’ in that it was inspired by the view from a window overlooking the industrial scene one clear and dark autumn night. Both this song and the cinematic feel of the film came from that striking imagery. Towers of steel; flames rising into the night; orange and cold blue light; steam rising into the darkness – both a hell on Earth and still the financial lifeblood of Teesside through the 20th century.

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He glances from his window
Sees the flames amidst the steam
As it stands like some great city
In a scientific dream
The tankers move the motion potion
As silent worker bees

Standing on a platform
With a chain around his neck
He just defies the gravity
That pulls him to the deck
For the witches brew is something new
For the silent worker bees

Drinking the blood of ancient waters
(Hearing mankind wheeze)
And the hand that turns the valve
Becomes the hand that turns the…

Wheels, turning wheels
Power driven man is moving
Wheels, burning wheels
City building man is learning

From the towers of silver metal
And the pipe-work, rusted beams
With the heated liquid flowing
Through it’s veins, (or so it seems)
And the process just continues
To the silent worker bees

The giant keeps on growing
He’s never kept in ‘cheque’
Like the gauges of prosperity
It’s a growing cash effect
Still the children kept in circumstance
Are the silent worker bees?

Drinking the blood of ancient waters
(Hearing mankind wheeze)
And the hand that turns the valve
Becomes the hand that turns the…

Wheels, turning wheels
Power driven man is moving
Wheels, burning wheels
City building man is learning

Who are the losers?
When the time has past and the
Pipe-work’s gone
Never the leaders
And never the Queen

You are the losers
When the grime is vast and the
Pipe-work’s gone
And the hand that turns the valve
Tills the field…

Wheels, turning wheels
Power driven man is moving
Wheels, burning wheels
City building man is learning

Wheels, turn
Aah Aah
Wheels, turn
Aah Aah

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from Ashes For The Monarch, released February 9, 2015

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Glacier are a melodic progressive rock band based in the North East of England and have been in existence since the late 70's early 80's. All music is their own original work.

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