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the edge of the world

from kamikaze EP by SLIVER

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Falling bombs filmed through night-vision cameras look like inverted greenish fireworks. And we get so used to watching battles through our TV screen that war has just become another TV show (fireworks included). The problem is that war has many more consequences than the people dismissed in Pop Idol or the number of turns made by the Wheel of Fortune. Indeed, every war means the death of many civilians (children included). And civilians can be people who do not have any political convictions or ideologies, people who do not even want to be at war. Calculation mistakes lead missiles onto hospitals instead of ammunition factories and this happens all the time. Children so young they do not even know what “war” means die or get badly hurt. And when they go out to play football in the snow, they do not have to watch for the ball anymore but for landmines. The edge of the world is simply the place where we want to put crippled children, missiles and battles. So far away from us that the only thing we can do is just sit on our couch and watch. So far away there is nothing we can do (you and me included?).

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I’m standing at the top of a seventeen story building
and beneath my feet, the whole city’s burning
I’m standing at the edge of a bridge that leads nowhere
is it unfinished or broken, who really cares?

I remember when all we could see was snow
I remember when you and me were not at war

I’m standing at the corner of an empty dead end street
empty of souls that’s for sure, but quite full of dead bodies
I’m standing at the edge, the edge of the world
yeah the edge the world that’s all it seems to be

I remember when all we could see was snow
I remember when you and me were not at war

I miss the time when we could play football in the snow
I miss the time when we didn’t have to watch for landmines

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from kamikaze EP, released September 1, 2007
www.myspace.com/slivering

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SLIVER Metz, France

SLIVER were a rocking hardcore band from Belgium/France/Luxembourg.
They've played more than 200 shows in 12 countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, the United Kingdom).

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