Name: Better Things
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: I wrote this for the "Bin The Bomb" campaign in protest at the UK Government's decision to re-commission the Trident generation of nuclear weapons. I just think maybe there are a few imaginative and constructive ways to spend £30 billion or so that don't involve weapons of mass destruction.

Better Things

from THIS EARTHLY SPELL by Karine Polwart

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I wrote this for the "Bin The Bomb" campaign in protest at the UK Government's decision to re-commission the Trident generation of nuclear weapons. I just think maybe there are a few imaginative and constructive ways to spend £30 billion or so that don't involve weapons of mass destruction.

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Better Things

So is this the best that we can do?
Oh I can think of better things - can't you?
Yes I can think of better things
That hands can make and hearts can sing

For now we deal with those for whom
A life is but a carnal tomb
In which the darkness holds no power
And neither does the final hour

We may lament the deadly art
Of tiny atoms torn apart
Of visions that we can't return
And future fires in which we fear we'll burn

Yet this is the art of those before
Who found a cure within the core
The noble mind behind the ray
That eased our earthly cares away

Is this the best...

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from THIS EARTHLY SPELL, released March 10, 2008
Words & Music: Karine Polwart (Bay Songs Ltd 2007)

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Karine Polwart UK

One of the finest singer-songwriters in Britain" The Guardian

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May 22

Foxlowe Arts Centre

Leek, UK
May 23

Newhampton Arts Centre

Wolverhampton, UK
May 24

BIRDWELL VENUE

Barnsley, UK
May 26

Byre Theatre

St. Andrews, UK
Jun 19

The Stoller Hall

Manchester, UK
Jun 22

Kendal Brewery Arts Centre

Cumbria, UK
Nov 3

Kings Place

London, UK

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