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Creating a record full of anthems – songs designed to be hollered back at the band by the heaving masses - was the driving force behind Bendigo rockers Four Lions’ new album Wide Awake.
And its epic closing track Century’s War – the band’s new single - cleaves perfectly to the record’s stadium rock ethos.
Frontman Shann Lions says Century’s War had an immediate impact on audiences right from its very first live airing.
“I first played it to a crowd on a stinking hot January night at a packed St Kilda pub about two years ago,” Lions recalls.
“By the end of the song, everyone in the whole place was singing along with the ‘whoa-whoa’ part of the chorus and the outro.”
Century’s War combines the small-town lyrical romanticism of Springsteen’s Born To Run with a wall of driving guitars and expansive keys - before a mini-choir brings it home.
lyrics
Grab some things let's run away
Where we can't be found our getaway
Dye our hair in the servo's sink
No indicators on City Link
Hit a fox on our way up coast
Vixen's fed a murder of crows
Woooohh fires burning our century's war
Woooohh Stand united on century's war
Before we left I stole some plates
For petrol drive offs on holiday's
Camp somewhere near Blanket Bay
Sea foam heals our shame
Woooohh fires burning our century's war
Woooohh Stand united on century's war
You only have one life, you can't back time
You only have one life, you can't back time
You only have one life, you can't back time
Woooohh fires burning our century's war
Woooohh Stand united on century's war
Woooohh fires burning our century's war
Woooohh Stand united on century's war
Woooohh X9
credits
released November 18, 2021
Lyrics And Music Written By Shann Lions (Control)
Produced By Shann Lions/Keith MacQueen/Finn Keane (The Greasy Triplets)
Engineered By @finnkeane At @HeadGap / Preston/AUS
Mixed By Bohdan Dower @_beamling_ At Bulb Audio/Bendigo/AUS
Mastered By Ludwing Diaz @ludwing_usm At US Mastering/Miami/USA
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