Roses

Album: Education, Education, Education & War (2014)
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  • Lyrically, Education, Education, Education & War finds the Kaiser Chiefs at their most despondent, with talk of misery and needing to see the light. "It's dark, dark where roses grow," Ricky Wilson sings on this disconsolate torch song.

    Wilson suggested to Q magazine the song's gloomy lyrics are a reflection of the current national mood. "It's inspiring hearing people like Russell Brand talking to (Jeremy) Paxman saying, 'no, I don't have the solution but things aren't right,"' he explained. "What we're doing is similar – not that I'm going on Newsnight but we're saying something is wrong."

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