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Throw It Away is about the disposability of consumer products and culture. A sofa is seen as a fashion item to be changed with the seasons rather than a durable product that will last decades, electrical items are out of date immediately they are purchased… This song also sees commerce as a virus spreading through the solar system. At the 1960’s rate of space exploration we should already have colonised Mars and Jupiter’s moons by now, “there are other planets if we have to go” but we can’t get there because we are trapped on earth (with finite resources) by orbiting clouds of abandoned space-junk. Never mind.

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Throw It Away

Have you heard the new one? (They can't last)

You don't have to listen to know what I;m going to say
You've heard it all before but we're happy that way
If I tell you once you've heard it twice
Don't bother listening just pay the price
Maybe I can get my message through
It might be recycled but its sold as new

Throw it away
Have you heard the new one? (They can't last)
Time to get a new one (They just don't last)
Dish-washer-video but so out of date
Better replace them before its too late
If it breaks down just throw it away
Its time to get a better one anyway
Try and find a purpose for your surplus cash
Snap it up use it up its instant trash

Throw it away
Run run run and chase the tail
We've got to use more got to make more too
Come on faster faster we want more more more
We can keep going for ever like this
The things we've got are too good to miss
The sky's the limit come on grow grow grow
There are other planets if we have to go
Throw it away

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from 2nd demo album : The Speed Of Sound In A Blood Orange Sky, released April 16, 2012
copyright John Armstrong 30Jun1989

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The Speed Of Sound UK

"Unique and other worldly"- Vive Le Rock!
"New Wave Post-Punk blood powered by a heartbeat of 1960's influences"- Louder Than War.

The Speed Of Sound are:
John Armstrong guitar/vocals, AnnMarie Crowley - vocals/percussion, Kevin Roache - bass guitar & John Broadhurst - drums,

Based in Manchester UK. Unfettered, unchained & independent since 1989.
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