Name: Fact And Fiction (live)
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: Recorded live in Tilburg, Netherlands in 1992, this track was originally released on Geoff's live compilation, Recorded Delivery GMCDR01.

Eh! Geoff Mann Band - Fact And Fiction (live)

from Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition by Twelfth Night

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Disc One is the original album + other tracks recorded at Revolution studios in 1982. Disc Two has live versions of all the tracks featuring all 3 ‘TN’ singers + 1982 demos. Disc Three has covers/interpretations by many different artists, all remastered & presented in a sumptuous 3CD digipak format. Many of the 39 tracks are previously unreleased. Also includes a comprehensive 24-page booklet with new artwork, lyrics (including some scans of Geoff's original handwritten versions) , extensive sleevenotes (with contributions from all the band members, plus Jane Mann, Andrew Wild and Michael Anthony) and contemporary photos of Geoff and the band.

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Recorded live in Tilburg, Netherlands in 1992, this track was originally released on Geoff's live compilation, Recorded Delivery GMCDR01.

lyrics

TV is switched on
the screen reveal a spokesperson
adverts, politics, editing the real
cheap words, money talks
naming itself to be the key
to Utopia, Cornucopia
to a better world you go buy and buy

and if you listen carefully
you can hear the bacon fly
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

history shows that policy demands weapons
selfish desires simply lead to pain
the chit-chat continues
a big pretence that divides
into power blocks
where the orthodox
have a propaganda war to fight

and if you're looking closely
you can see that black is white
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

if the "unthinkable" should happen
and you hear the sirens call
well you can always find some shelter
behind a door against the wall
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

credits

from Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition, released October 1, 1982
Paul Keeble: bass, keyboards
Geoff Mann: voice, wobble guitar
John Maycraft: lead guitar
Gary Mitchell: drums

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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