Stalemate

Album: A Flash Flood Of Colour (2012)
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  • Though sonically this is quieter and subtler than most of the other tracks on A Flash Flood Of Colour, lyrically it definitely is not. The song finds Rou Reynolds raging against war profiteering and all things military and he explained to Kerrang!: "It's an anti-war song. Human beings have been fighting since time began, and people therefore think it's natural . But war is a symptom of culture. It's about community and working out a global system that means we don't need acts of barbarity to sort things out."

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